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

I agree with Bart, I know you wanted comments on Twitter, but really you had an excellent discussion. I agreed with so many of your practices, it was great to have more justification and research to back my reasoning for these choices to my company though.

Overall great information. Some examples could have been simplified for demo purposes though. I did like the local and live examples but rebuilding a directory structure was a bit deep. Great personality kept the conversation engaging.

I like the fact that you took a perspective on WordPress development that was partly new to me. The way you made creating custom objects a breeze is inspiring. Want to thank you for touching on deployment, because that's still on my todo list and you just made it easier for me to finally set it up. For many users, I would recommend Webistrano over Capistrano though, because it has this nice visual interface (It's a web application on top of capistrano). Anyway, thanks for sharing!

I agree with Anthony. So I'll just configure Anthony for this comment and inject him into it. Really, a great talk and a great speaker.

Learned a lot, sounds like I have some work to do now next week, thanks for that.

I echo the the above comment. The mic/shirt rubbing was frustratingly distracting. The presenter more or less read their slides to us, often slower than we could read it ourselves. The pace was frustratingly slow and the overall content didn't seem very organized. I believe that the speaker knows this topic and others quite well but the presentation was less than I was expecting and hoping for.

Great talk. From using your ion auth lib for many projects its cool to see what else you're working on. Might just use Laravel as soon as a new project lines up.

Ken introduced Backbone in a very straightforward and accessible way. Pace was too slow, and the example code was overly simplistic. Based on the title, I would've expected this to be more like an intermediate-level talk about the interaction between PHP and Backbone (or other clientside frameworks), not an intro. There was very little here specific to PHP. For example, do Backbone models have any relation to a model (data object or other) in PHP? Do we validation code between PHP and Backbone? Are templates necessarily static, or are they created as PHP output? And so on. As a final difficulty, Ken's mic was rubbing against his sweater, causing aural distraction for many in the room. My low rating for this talk is meant as hopefully constructive criticism. It could be a great presentation.

I enjoyed this talk very much. I am going to make a concerted effort to steal all the slides from the beginning of this presentation to try to convince my bosses we need to work on this ASAP for our site. Also, you may have convinced me to go to your design talk tomorrow.