php[tek] 2014
19 - 23 May 2014 at Sheraton Gateway Suites O’Hare

Thank you for the info. Good information, even for an HHVM novice.

Enjoyable talk, with great discussion with the audience.

really nice talk, nice breather from all the intense code sessions. Thanks!

You seemed a little nervous at the beginning but then you hit your stride. The historical perspective was interesting. There were a few times where the videos showing the editing were a few seconds longer than necessary to demonstrate the concept. But it was nice to show things animated and safer than trying to live demo each situation. The real world examples (pop up while driving) might have been contrived but were entertaining and made the point.

At the end, you walk through improving the app through changes involving modals and popovers, yet those are not your suggested method and are not necessary steps in the conversion. Walking through that evolution during your background was useful, but including them during your actual improvement example is probably unnecessary. You could have used that time to dive into actual code modifications with a little more detail.

I would have been interested in even more evidence that modes are actually bad. Are there counterarguments? Perhaps modes make mistakes less likely? Are there more modern luminaries who support them in the web world? Are there several popular example sites which embrace the concept? Are there modern sites sticking with modes?

Thanks for the presentation!

I enjoyed seeing a talk on some of the softer side skills in tech. Thanks.

Good talk that covered the essential concepts of building out a module in D8. Did feel a bit rushed, but this is understandable given the scope of the topic and the hour time limit.

good talk, probably need to slow down your speech a little bit. There were a lot of parts where the knowledge was there but it was between a few "yeah, cool. this is bad. this is good." lacked polish as a speaker, but obviously a domain expert.

Slides were very dense. felt like sneaking in 3 slides in 1 many times.

Learned a lot of what to research in drupal 8. you could unpack several of these into unique talks

Super underwhelming. The title and description led me to believe this was going to be speculative and a 'call to arms'. It was not. I did appreciate the history of modes. It was a professional and well put together presentation, however.

Lots of good information, very dense. Code slides were kind of hard to read from the back. At the end it felt like the pace sped up a lot... jumping from step 2-3 of basics to "this is the inevitable conclusion". Could have used another round or two in between, in my view. Still valuable though.

Useful intro to Sculpin. Would have liked to see a live demo (or even a pre-recorded live demo). Also seemed a little low energy/mumbly. Maybe up the vocal variety?