MidwestPHP 2014
14 - 16 Mar 2014 at University of St Thomas

Rather slow talk. Really seems to jump all over. Not a lot of cohesion in the presentation.

This was a fun talk. I wasn't really sure what to expect from it but it really showed me more about myself than I was expecting. "Why did it take him so many years and so many projects to figure this out? Oh... right..." Thanks, Eli! And great job actually speaking given the conditions of your voice. :)

Nice introduction and overview of Composer, information about the PSR-0 and PSR-4 coding standards (a topic that I feel deserves a talk of its own), and an explanation of semantic versioning. I didn't feel there was a very strong "takeaway" from the presentation other than Composer is great and PHP's package support is fantastic, so a possible suggestion for Beau is to evaluate the talk and consider what the main points you want to send the user away with and make sure that you reinforce them throughout the presentation. That said, great job. I really enjoyed this.

This was a terrific presentation that provided an overview of many tools available to developers for improving the quality of a code base. Given the breadth of information in the presentation, there wasn't a lot of time to dig deep into any of the tools in particular, but Omni's presentation offered a great initial dive into the myriad options that are out there. He had a wonderful sense of humor, too, which also made the presentation really fun to watch. Great talk.

This was a great talk. I loved seeing how your project evolved from a highschool side project to something much, much bigger. Loved it. Thank you for sharing your stories with us!

I've recently heard about wpackagist and have been interested in integrating Composer into my WordPress projects since then. I've also seen some presentations in the past that discussed deploying WordPress using Capistrano, but that was nearly two years ago when I wasn't yet ready to explore these concepts.

Jason's talk came at just the right time for me, then. He provided a great overview of how to set up your WordPress projects with Composer, how to strip out WordPress themes altogether if you'd like to work with another templating engine, and how to deploy it all from development to staging to production using Capistrano. He also came armed with lots of examples that he and his colleagues at John Hopkins have produced, and I'm excited to explore those resources more in depth following the conference.

This is a great presentation, and I hope that Jason will consider giving this talk at WordCamps across the country as well.

A lot of really content, timing was a bit off and I would have liked to have seen the slides at the end of the deck, but the explanations on the slides you were able to show were very thorough and helpful. It's a very big topic and I thought it was covered well, and in spite of being familiar with a lot of the concepts, I found it very useful as a refresher. Good rate of speed and confidence in the delivery.

I really enjoyed this talk, a lot of really great information. The flow definitely improved as the talk went on, felt like the flow was a bit off early on. Once the talk got rolling though, it was slammed full of good info. Thanks for the talk!

Great talk. Would love to see this turned into a tutorial at Zend Con.

Cool talk, walked through plenty of examples. Pretty slides too. This is one piece of technology that I feel like I'm ready to start coding in immediately (pending hosting setup, of course).