Midwest PHP 2018
9 - 10 Mar 2018 at Radisson Blu Mall of America

This was a delightful introduction to Laravel. I could tell that the speaker was able to read the room and adjust for the audience. As a rookie, I much appreciate it.

I would have appreciated more real world stories and examples— lessons learned— to drive home the recommendations. Presentation could have used a little more excitement. It could have been more clear in the beginning which things were unfortunate realities vs recommendations.

Understandable introduction to cryptography! Well done!

Really awesome talk that made everything really easy to understand.
One note for the speaker - I missed a few words that were either spoken softly or were said quickly after the preceding word (Words sometimes got mashed together.) Overall this did not impact the quality of the talk, just a small area for improvement.

It would have been helpful to me to have had more time explaining the four common uses of cryptography for developers -- I'm still unsure what key derivation is, in particular. You could borrow some time from the discussion of how users select bad passwords a lot. Although, I do know that there are better password hashing options than sha + salt, which is good practical knowledge that I'll be taking away from your talk.

Good talk. I enjoyed the code samples and the real world use cases.

Entertaining presentation of basics of Go. It got complex more quickly than I expected when it got into functions returning more than one value and using and de-referencing pointers. I remain unclear on how all that works, but it will still a good overview. I especially appreciated the real world comparisons at the end and advice on when to use Go.

Thanks, Adam, for wading in on this difficult topic

A strong start to the talk and was engaged by the talk about the middleware. Personally did not have a lot of prior zend experience and felt that the latter half of the talk was rather hard to follow.

Really enjoyed this. Entry level stuff; great diagrams.