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

I almost thought about sleeping in a bit more to skip this -- I'm so glad I did not. This was a very insightful talk and honestly one the best I've seen so far at this conference. I like the bit on "Inadvertent Algorithmic Cruelty". I quite identified with that as FB seems to always send me photos of an ex g.f. of mine every year... like people suffering from an unknown disease, at least now I can put a name to this back-stabbing, knife-twisting, salt-rubbing time of the year "memory"... Let the healing begin. HAHAHAH :p

Good talk. Very hands on.

TL;DR use Rabbit/MQ for fire & forget DB inserts and have your "worker" listener use the prepared bulk insert statements.

It really didn't talk about micro-services, at least not in the way I think of them with multiple Docker containers all doing a single thing well and spawning and dying after their job is done, and connected together...

No offense to the speaker as her talk was well done, but it was pretty rudimentary knowledge. This is literally coding 101 next to "Hello World". It should have been yesterday so that I could have gone to a different more advanced talk at the same time slot.

This so far was the one workshop I really thought was super interesting with tangible / useful results at the end. However there was a lot to prepare for (unexpectedly and at the last minute!) and compounded by the fact the instructor went quite quickly. If you look at your notebook and away from the slides, you could quickly become lost. Sadly, I had to concede defeat about 1/2 way through. I hope to attempt to get a working solution on my own, but I hope that the instructor posts a fully working version/branch or Docker of the code and API.ai JSON import (I know he's updated that part a couple times now).

Maybe it would be better to provide the class with the working examples (or a fully working Docker where we just plug in our own API keys). And then the instructor could point out the interesting/important parts rather than everyone scrambling to try and type/code/follow/read/test/etc..

And also, any preparation needed should have been sent out in an email or slack channel before hand; so maybe do that earlier in the day and have this class later in the day so folks can prep during breaks.

I also wonder if the class could be adjusted to use Amazon AWS as I believe Alexa/Dot are more prevalent than Google Home is.

Great, entertaining slide-deck, and super informative.

Good introductory talk by a personable, engaging, well-organized presenter, but it was labelled in the conference schedule as "Intermediate" so I was expecting some more nuance and detail.

It was a great talk. It is more was geared towards git than open source development. I was expecting more like hands on existing opensource fork it and fix a issue and submit an PR.

Excellent talk! It was pitched more toward introductory Git/Github usage than I expected, which for me personally suited just fine as I haven't used git in several years and needed the refresher.

Beth's encouragement and pointers towards good places to start is great for me - having had some really unpleasant experiences with overly hostile and combative open source communities many years ago, I haven't wanted to jump back in to that den of vipers.

The talk is great, but the title/description could be more explicit. I was expecting a talk more focused on open source projects and the nature of the open source community. Rather, this presentation seems primarily a Git and Github tutorial with exercises which is not as beneficial for someone who's pretty comfortable with Git and Github already.