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

I learned so much in this session! It definitely holds the record for me saying "that is so cool!" the most times during the session. Thank you so much for putting this together and sharing your knowledge with the rest of us.

Fantastic presentation and the live demo was incredibly helpful. I'm terrible at using unit tests and this presentation was very helpful in convincing me a) why I really should be using them more often and b) how they can be helpful while developing instead of feeling like a chore I need to do after I'm done coding.

Wonderful presentation that managed to be very informative in the short amount of time allowed for session. Probably took the most notes at this sessions and left with a great number of things to further research and learn about. Adam nicely balanced top level information without being too brief or getting too bogged down in one area and left me with a lot of direction of how and where to explore on my own.

Always happy to learn more about symfony and Symfony Flex was something I didn't know anything about before. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us! The compare and contrast of how Flex is, or is not, like other services was useful for placing it in context of other Symfony products.

This ended up being even more beginner than I expected. I was hoping for more "how-to" and less "why you should". I already knew the reasons why continuous integration can be helpful and was hoping to learn more about the tools and processes behind it. I didn't really feel any more confident about being able to work with continuous integration than when I walked in.

Heidi did a wonderful job presenting, she was clearly prepared and had her timing and pacing down pat. I agree that developers need to be more paranoid and preparing for the worst while hoping for the best and it was nice to see a talk about this at the conference. I wish there had been more code examples of things gone wrong instead of mostly examples of cars, buildings, and natural disasters, but the ideas translated fine. Creating clear definitions between risk and harm was helpful and the idea that our job isn't done at just doing everything we can to make sure nothing goes wrong, we also need to have backup plans in place.

It was a fantastic theme to open with. It at times felt a little too basic, at this point in our lives I hope most people know the advantages of having friends. But I appreciated the insights into how to break into the tech communities if you're new. The speaker was a tad too energetic for my tastes, I felt exhausted by the end just keeping up with her pace!

I saw people throughout the rest of the conference making a conscious effort to be inclusive and more likely to talk to people they didn't know which I think is in large part due to kicking off the conference with this as the opener.

Hey folks, thanks to everyone who turned out for my talk! It seems like the talk was just too introductory for Midwest PHP's audience and could have been more organized and technically focused. I appreciate the feedback and please feel free to join me in my chat room (https://chat.userfrosting.com) if you want to discuss any of these tools on a deeper level, have any other comments, or if you just want to chat more. Good to meet everybody.

Thank you for inspiring, and also giving us the technical details to go forth and conquer.

Good talk. At the end of the talk you gave some good use-cases that would have been great at the introduction. This was a very code-heavy talk, which is fine, but my brain was sort of fried by the end of the day :)