Midwest PHP 2016
4 - 5 Mar 2016 at Hilton Minneapolis

Very much enjoyed this talk. Great use of code to illustrate the points. I liked how he focused on PHP, but made analogies/connections with other contexts. John's a great speaker, though a touch on the quiet side so maybe a mic would be helpful for a larger audience like this one had. I came away from this talk feeling [even more] enthusiastic about applying a functional paradigm to my code.

A lot of good information that has me more interested in trying out php 7 sooner rather than later. I might just upgrade my VPS to it when I get home from the conference (if it's available) so I can test it out.

Was the overview I was hoping for. The before/after examples were well-chosen and helpful.

Would have liked more intro. Way too fast.

Stuff that needed to be said.

Great info. The demonstration was really valuable.

I don't know if I agree with all of the principles espoused in this talk, but it was a great reminder of the power of array_map, array_filter, and array_reduce (and even array_fill_keys). It also encourages us to consider our code from a different perspective.

The speaker's volume was a problem, especially with the packed room. The peaceful, consistent cadence didn't help.

Nice use of video to show the refactoring.

Amazing talk, really cleared up a lot of confusion I had about mocking in my unit tests. Did a very great job of explaining this in a very understandable way. Thank you.

Very helpful, and eye opening to make me rethink all of my code and how I'm implementing loops.

Very helpful with a and good pace to keep the flow going