OpenWest 2015
6 - 9 May 2015 at Utah Valley University

Excellent stuff and fun delivery. definitely liked the real life examples and down to earth examples.

This presentation struck a great balance between examples, content and engagement. With the downloadable content I am able to dig in at my own pace. With the slide content I am able to reproduce the motivation of the topic. With the open-forum style I was able to engage with specific and general questions.

This is a cool technology and it was a lot of fun to attend this presentation. Well done!

Presentation was great - and content was extremely valuable.
I will be using this info first thing Monday!
Btw, I have to say I'm surprised by some of the other somewhat negative comments about the description not containing any reference to the fact that this talk was focused on php.
According to
* the mobile app description,
* the description here at joind.in, and
* the description on the web site,
it clearly states the talk is PHP related with this sentence:
"Adam Culp will introduce tools to grade, benchmark, and analyze PHP code in an automated fashion. "

Besides that, he did in fact mention there are other tools similar to these, for other languages.
Just saying, Dissing a talk with low ratings, because you didn't read the full description, is pretty rude IMO.

Hands on example was very clear of showing going from spaghetti to testable non-spaghetti was good.

Nice helping us install composer.

Also, nice to know about getMock.

Enjoyed the code samples and examples. Good enthusiasm and well presented. Good points on testing and how to introduce tests to spaghetti code.

Talk Slides https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1C1DoIaKOsipKUbaaSJsS20dtY0dtQGf-si2Wfyr-9QY/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=10000&slide=id.p

Thanks for the great feedback! This was a shortened version of the talk (45 minutes instead of 60), and I did have to cut more examples than I would've liked. I'll try to work more examples into the 45 minute version next time.

Anonymous - I've gotten feedback in the past when discussing work/life balance that I focused too much on the family/children/work balance that women face. I also find it challenging to speak to that issue, since I feel like it's not my place to start that conversation, since it's something that as a guy I will never fully be able to understand.

My intention definitely was not to exclude you! Work/life balance applies to everyone - men, women, married people, single people, those with children, those without. You've inspired me to rework the intro to include a segment calling out the fact that work/life balance is something everyone struggles with in their own personal way, no matter their age, gender, martial status or any other factor, and to show how we all have to communicate clear boundaries with people in both our personal and professional lives.

Thank you!

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

I appreciate the feedback. I'll keep this in mind for future presentations.

good info, but couldn't see the slides due to the lighting in the room. should have turned those lights off.

interesting presentation. some good points.