Midwest PHP 2017
17 - 18 Mar 2017 at Radisson Blu Mall of America

An extremely well put together and organized presentation on how to use APIs in your own applications. I've occasionally needed to authenticate with an API before but it always felt more luck than skill when I finally got it to work, Caitlin took a lot of the "magic" out of it and helped me understand what was happening and why. I feel a lot more confident about next time I need to use an API in my app.
Slides were easy to read and understand, including the concise and helpful code examples. Excellent pacing and level of explanation that made the whole presentation easy to follow and comprehend.

It was an interesting and entertaining story but I still left feeling like I wouldn't even know where to begin to do this myself. I had been hoping for more "center of php" and less journey to get there I guess. Learning about how PHP works under the hood would have been more useful I think in helping enable me to start my own journey to the center.

Little too much time spent on the history of MVC. I would have liked more time spent on ADR itself and examples. Overall very thought provoking talk, enjoyed it very much.

The talk was in a sort of weird place where it wasn't exactly an intro to testing, but a person like myself who's been testing for a while didn't get a ton out of it either. I think the talk needs a better sense of who it's target audience is.

I'm glad you were the closing keynote to inspire us all to always keep in mind that there are real, living people using our creations. It's an honor and responsibility to love them intentionally with our products.

Great concepts presented in your talk.

One suggestion is that as you go over the 12 factors as a list initially, but then, as you go through each one, describe the factor, then immediately describe how to implement that factor for WordPress. Hopefully that would keep the factor's goal closer to the implementation.

I found the noSQL solutions more interesting than how relational database are implementing non-scalar data storage. You've gotten me interested in researching Elasticsearch more.

I picked up Puppet three years ago and Docker looks like a good evolution on the concepts. Since I haven't tried it yet, some of the information went over me, but it was good to see what's possible.

I don't have projects that need either of these two concepts yet, but will keep them in mind so I don't get into callback hell.

I appreciated that this topic was at a PHP conference. Anyone can benefit from learning how people learn (including ourselves). There was a lot of content to go over but Heather managed to get through it.

The learning styles inventory site is confusing to use. The learning style quiz isn't quite working how I expect as I can't make it show me all the questions or progress to the next page of questions.

This presentation's information will be very useful as I work with my internal training committee.