php[tek] 2015
18 - 22 May 2015 at Sheraton Gateway Suites O’Hare

One of the best talks I attended at PHPTek. The talk spread a ton of positive messages and reinforced the idea that we need to be empathic and excellent to one another.

Very useful information presented at a high-level. Provided starting points for further learning.

You have a great presentation style with energy, enthusiasm, and levity. However, your cadence can be a bit rushed. I'm not sure it's worth adjusting that for fear of moderating the positive qualities.

As a git novice, despite your clear, careful documentation and visualizations, it was still challenging for me to follow.

It might have helped to explain what's happening on the file system when you check out or switch branches. When are the files on disk changing, so that when you open them in an editor you see different versions?

I don't know if it matters, but I was confused when you contrasted subversion and git with respect to how they work with diffs. You said that subversion has revisions which are the diff of the current change against the previous revision. But I've always thought of git commits as diffs, since that's how they're always visualized, and I figured that for space efficiency, it wouldn't save all of the duplicate data. But perhaps it doesn't matter or is out of scope for the talk.

The time probably didn't allow, but I wonder if a demo would have helped drive some of the points home. Sometimes that can be more confusing, though.

You should consider doing a tutorial or training half-day or day on git and github.

Thanks for putting this presentation together. I think it's a great topic for this community.

Would have enjoyed a better demo that compared to other frameworks like nodejs.

An informative talk about debugging with excellent live demos.

Great talk that showed the history of PHP.

Great talk. As a self-taught engineer myself I've had to learn some of things on my own and there were a few things I wasn't familiar with at all. I appreciated the high-level overview of the different concepts with just enough implementation detail to know when I should consider applying the various concepts.

Extremely helpful for a dev trying to convert from SVN to Git! Thank you!

Excellent presentation. A good mix of information and anecdotes to keep the audience engaged.