Midwest PHP 2016
4 - 5 Mar 2016 at Hilton Minneapolis

Great talk, but slides were hard to read from the back of the room.

I loved getting to see the nuts and bolts of dealing with data at that scale.

A little dry - but learned a bunch. I have some reading to do to catch up.

A great talk, considering the time constraint. I would've liked some more practical examples, but maybe that would be a workshop and not a talk. Still, Ben wasted no time, delivers like a pro, and handled questions gracefully. I liked that he didn't fixate on a particular standard (e.g. JSONAPI or HAL), but stuck to presenting the concepts.

Fantastic talk! Kayla comes off as humble and approachable, yet concerned and knowledgeable not to mention experienced. I loved how she brought it around to an example of her own bias in action.

Excellent topic, well delivered.

I really enjoyed this talk. I'm an experienced dev who's managed Wordpress sites through its front-end, and installed it, but never built a plugin or theme. I feel like I was 100% the target audience for this talk.

David did a good job breaking the tech down into understandable but not overly-simplistic pieces. He made good choices about what to go into with more depth and what to hand wave. Tech needs more people who can understand the nerd, but explain it in human.

Given the controversy around WordPress's code choices, I also appreciated David's neutral delivery. The talk wasn't overly negative, or rose-colored, or apologetic. David is aware of the things within WP that don't square with modern dev practices, but also assumed that we were there to learn about WP and gave us the facts.

Perfect choice of topic to kick off the conference.

Lots of good explanation and metaphors for OOP. The code examples were easily understood and concise, if difficult to see on the projection screen (speaker realized and tried to remedy).

https://github.com/sketchings/oop-basics