Pacific Northwest PHP Conference
7 - 9 Sep 2017 at University of Washington

I was a little lost because I never did php test code writing like this before (though I have written test scripts 20 years ago). It was, however, good to know what can be done. I'm hoping that the slides will be put up so that I can go over them and figure this out. I now understand the concept but have to learn the implementation AND how to use PHPUnit.

The two groups sitting around me were lagging so maybe things were a bit fast.

I thought that this was pretty useful...particularly the namespaces. Once the slides are up, I'll attempt to pass on the knowledge to my workplace so these concepts are implemented correctly.

Very interesting! I can definitely use this for a current project...provided I can do a full rewrite.

Fascinating! I can't wait to go through the slides again for the details she skipped to save time.

Interesting point of view, something we just forget this is for 'persons' when we create programs and not just users.

The talk should be: 'How to sell RabbitMQ to the community', even not a workshop, it was just talking and talking.

I thought this was going to be a snooze-fest, and way over my head, but Sara really broke it down like a fraction to slides/examples that I could really grok. The slides and live example really helped. It is interesting to see how the guts work on a language I've used since PHP/FI ! I learned about ASTs too. Really glad I got to see this talk and fully recommend to others. Looking forward to her posting the slides up here on Joind.In too.

FYI, code for the completed workshop is/has been live at https://github.com/iansltx/build-a-bot (look at the master branch + readme). The requirement notes (http://ian.im/botpnw17) includes, among other things, a link to a cookbook for playing with the Alexa Skills Kit, which is quite the different beast.

Highly entertaining talk, speaker and slides. Best of the speakers actually -- it was clear he either practiced or has given this talk before. The content that would at first glance seem too nerd-core and boring was made exciting and interesting. I had no idea that random numbers were so challenging to create! /dev/urandom FTW.

Also, who's down with entropy?! Yeah, you know me!
MC Hawking - Entropy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bueZoYhUlg

Personally, not really my thing. No offense, but unless you have someone like Rasmus, RMS, Linus, Monty, Zeev or another huge name in the space, then meh... or maybe put this at the end of the day in the last slot.