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

Some of it was over my head, but very cool talk.

The talk was clear and well paced, but seemed scripted. The joy of getting this information from a talk rather than a blog article would be in the stories and excitement of the speaker.

You mention a beef with the AP on the Oxford comma but don’t explain your reasoning. I thought you could have used a more powerful demonstration of the confusion which can be caused by the omission of the Oxford comma specifically (rather than some of your other comma comics).

Thank you for including information on gender bias in writing.

(Sorry, I missed the first third.)

Nice delivery! Excited to get a project started with Flex.

Beau, you are knowledgeable and good at explaining how flex work!

Very useful content but could be more engaging. The engagement during Q&A was much higher.

I found the typographical & lexicographic history pretty interesting, but a lot of it was a "do this, not that" type of list. Unless you are really concerned with the why behind the choices, a good text linter could fix a bunch of these issues for you. Could stand to be a bit more energetic/dynamic.

I realize a number of "write better/clean code" talks are also glorified "do this, not that" lists, so that's not meant to be entirely critical.

Good comprehensive presentation. Sphinx is awesome!

It was hard to understand his words. It wasn't the search topic I was expecting.

Great intro to using bash for those familiar with PHP. I've written several simple bash scripts, but still learned quite a few things that I was not aware of before. I'll feel much more confident the next time I need to write a bash script.

Great talk introducing functional concepts using examples familiar to PHP developers. I think a bit more time focusing on the functional concepts than defining functions would be beneficial. Discuss defining closures with used variables, skip the rest of the ways to define functions, most should be familiar with them IMO.