Midwest PHP 2015
14 - 15 Mar 2015
at University of St Thomas
Talk comments
My personal favorite talk at the conference so far. Commands last for the life of the software, underlying ideas last a lifetime.
Great high level talk. I left with a better understanding of things I was already using (and that makes me feel scared for future me!) Cryptography is complex but absolutely essential and unfortunately, so many non-experts are the ones implementing. Thank you for demystifying some of the theory and acronyms.
Lots of good info for developers. We have dedicated sysadmins and share a lot of info where I work to help keep devs knowledgeable. I learned some new things to use on my personal server! Totally using monit.
Way to power through the cough!
Great talk. Specifically I love the idea of people being both mentor and apprentice, no matter where they are in their career. I actually liked that it ended early to allow for discussion. Very well done Beth. Keep giving this talk.
Excellent talk. It is difficult to get this much information across in such a straightforward way. Yitz does a great job of building upon previous slides and concepts to really teach while speaking. His flow is consistent, calm, and refreshingly well thought out. Highly recommend seeing him speak if you have the chance.
Joel made no bones about being a newcomer to Hack. Considering that the language is a year old, that category includes everyone. This talk included a lot of practical advice, including useful improvements over PHP, converting a project (or parts of a project) to Hack, and even a little tooling. Loved it. Could have wished for a little more knowledge, but I doubt that anyone but a Hack developer at Facebook could have done much better.
Well done getting through the big changes, considering the time constraints. Definitely a talk that will guide my own learning about the new version
Good talk, the content covered provided a great foundation for starting as an apprentice and mentor. The talk really came to life during the Q&A section.
If I was to give feedback, and not in terms of speaking poorly of your talk... Once you hit questions and answers, is when your personality really shined. You could tell you were much more comfortable and passionate. I think that energy could be felt and the engagement with the audience was great. In comparison with the slides, your energy wasn't equal and felt to me as you were simply reading them. If I was to make a suggestion, tie some personal stories and experiences to each of your slides. Once you started answering questions and speaking on your personal experience, it drew everyone in. I think that marriage of personal experience with slides will make your presentation even strong.
Good speaker, good energy, would have liked some more concrete demos.
Well done and concise