Midwest PHP 2016
4 - 5 Mar 2016
at Hilton Minneapolis
Talk comments
Enjoyed hearing about real projects. Great presentation!
I think Riley makes some good points in his critique. Perhaps some restructuring of the talk to explain the advantages up front and then more in-depth discussion of each SOLID principle would help lead into the "clean architecture" discussion and provide a stronger argument. The information provided and the refactoring example were great. I'd love to see more examples and maybe some domain modeling/architecture exercises. Thanks!
Full of good information.
Good message and delivery.
Could focus more of the talk on the actual Manifesto
The topic is great and useful, especially for those of us without CS degrees. I agree with an earlier commenter that narrowing the focus to fewer structures might be helpful. Work on volume and varying tone. Great information.
Good explanation and examples for a beginner audience new to OOP. Great introduction of terms. Some more time spent on the "why" for OOP might be beneficial for those who are still heavily entrenched in the procedural style.
The projector and lighting issues weren't your fault, but higher contrast slides with bolder fonts will help alleviate those issues.
Interesting talk, and Mathew is a great speaker. I'd love to see another of his talks. The only downside of this talk is endemic to the topic itself - there's sort of a bewildering array of components and plugins connected with the ELK stack. I came away from the talk feeling more informed as a developer, but as part of a small business I'm now also more hesitant to jump in.
Interesting topic, but about halfway through I was starting to dream...oh wait, what? I was starting to fall asleep. Flashbacks to undergraduate lecture halls...
Perhaps this talk could be improved by focusing on fewer structures and how they're useful, instead of attempting a catalog of all the useful structures. Practical code examples and a few images, or perhaps a story of how a particular structure was useful to you personally, would've made this more engaging.
Good examples and clear reasoning about what is normally a pretty tricky subject. Most of the slides were fun and unique. The "list of things" slides could be reworked to be less dry.