MidwestPHP Conference
2 - 3 Mar 2013 at University of Minnesota's Continuing Education and Conference Center

For those wondering, I use the Keynote remote on my phone to drive the presentation, and it shows me my notes. Without those notes I ramble on too much.

So it wasn't that I was ignoring you all, I just needed to stay on target with the notes.

Great talk - a ton of info in a very small amount of time. As someone who hasn't used mongo, it gave me a great starting point. I really appreciated the comparison to mysql.

Good intro to phing - something I knew nothing about. I liked that there were a lot of examples and some discussion of other software to do the same (might have liked to see why phing vs other software)

Good primer....more examples of the server-side in php would have been helpful

I probably wouldn't be able to be as convincing as Chris to convince you to practice TDD (or at least to write tests!) but I can at least tell you that it was an excellent talk, in the hope that you'll attend to a repeat, and be convinced in turn! :-)

More PHP examples please - especially since the normal Apache stack may not (yet) work for this new technology.

I'm not really buying the whole Phing thing (I have this medical condition that makes me uncomfortable in the presence of large concentrations of XML).

However!

Omni show us how to automate a deployment: version tagging, code upload, tests validation, the whole shebang. And that part was (from my very biased point of view!) a masterpiece.

Liked the working examples. I'm not a escape code guru, so I wouldn't mind if you stepped through a status bar loop to show exactly what the cursor escape commands are doing.

Here is the stuff I referenced about signal handling (Unix only): http://php.net/pcntl_signal

Next time make it faster and more intense. :-P

Great presenter giving an awesome talk on an important topic.

Omni seemed to know the topic well and had lots of good info to share. I especially liked the real-world examples of what you could put in certain hooks (and explanation of hooks that didn't really have good use cases). The pace felt a little rushed, but that was probably because of the down time from the wonky projector troubles at the beginning.