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

Great overview! The talk covered a lot of ground quickly and provided great insight into how different databases handle non-scalar data. As someone relatively new to backend development, I came away from the talk feeling that I could make informed decisions about handling non-scalar data.

I thought this was a great talk about something I really hadn't considered much before. I do wish there were a positive message at the end of how things were moving in the right direction. It was somewhat of a down note to leave the conference in.

This got a little over-emotional for me. Almost preachy. I think this could have used a lot more focus on all the ways that software development could be focused on the user without such long, somewhat-depressing stories. I think I could have got the point from one or two brief anecdotes. Could have used more of a positive focused message with more actionable take-aways.

I was pretty surprised by the conclusion of this talk. Almost, not sure, didn't actually endorse using ADR. Feel like maybe the title of the talk might need to get revised. That being said, I thought the history of MVC and it's use within PHP frameworks was interesting. I think more important was the details of how MVC was intended. I think more emphasis on that and the ways that MVC can be done right within a web app would be good.

I was impressed by how thoroughly this topic was covered. A lot of good info.

Good overview.

I thought this was very useful and worthwhile, but it assumed too much prior knowledge of the subject. I think it could use a least a brief intro to the basics.

I appreciated this talk, and thought the types of learning was interesting and important information. I kind of liked that this wasn't specific about software development, and was more universal.

Good information. Had a few rough spots with the demos, but recovered well enough. Feel like I now have a good idea of the advantages of using typescript.

I appreciated all the info about php 7. Also really liked the emphasis on the "refactor loop".