Pacific Northwest PHP (PNWPHP) Conference
10 - 12 Sep 2015 at Impact Hub Seattle

This is a talk with great potential, just needs some more editing. I loved hearing about how to optimize for tests, especially rather slow-running functional tests. Most of this had little to do with Laravel though. This talk maybe should be refactored to focus more on Laravel-specific (or PHP-specific) issues, *or* broaden to a talk about PHP deployment at scale. Still, I learned a lot and had some concrete take-aways by the end.

This was a good beginners session about Behat and PHPSpec. The only thing I would have liked to have seen is a bit more advanced use cases. Other than that, great job.

Very insightful. Yitz is a very good speaker and knows how to engage his audience in his sage like knowledge. Thank you for sharing your wisdom.

Wow, it's understandable how @coderabbi has become a PHP superstar lately. This talk spoke to me not just as a developer, but as a human being. I was actually a bit cynical and almost skipped it due to the hype I've heard from others around this talk, but honestly it deserves the hype.

Yitz, put together a video training series!

This was a hastily-prepared talk of course, admittedly. I learned some things here. I think this talk has the potential to become great, with a little humor, and some more real-world usage -- much like some of the git talks that are making the rounds lately. I would have liked to see demonstrations of how some of vim's features are useful, and rather than reading a list of options, hone it down to 2-4 really super useful options and provide a link to a sample .vimrc file. I use puphpet, which has an included .vimrc with good comments for many of the options.

I needed this. Bad. Thank you.

Good talk, I would have liked an objective (objective as possible) comparison to a couple other full frameworks, Yii, Symphony, Laravel, etc as the conclusion to this talk. The setup and structure between this and the other frameworks is strikingly similar and knowing the differences might be the interesting part.

A very good talk, and quite inspiring as a keynote should be. My only gripe is that it seemed like some of the analogies Davey made weren't entirely logically sound. Not a big deal, but as a logic guy it grated a little bit. Still, overall it was a very good talk and helps underline that we developers are not somehow removed from the social problems of the real world.

Really interesting stuff!

Favorite talk of PNWPHP. A rapid-fire, detailed, and clear-spoken presentation of information about the full development process, with plentiful anecdotes and asides that kept me entertained throughout. Looking forward to a link for this talk, because I already thought of specific people who would benefit from - or at least nod in agreement with - every point.