php[tek] 2017
22 - 26 May 2017 at Sheraton Atlanta Airport

Very helpful in my quest to better understand this. I know what I want to accomplish; I'm just trying to figure out the best way to do it.

Thank you, Tracy. It is always a pleasure to listen to a talk by someone who is expert in, and passionate about, a subject.

You made the various design topics accessible as well as opened my eyes to subtleties that were far beyond me going in as a non-designer, so this was exactly as advertised. The shortcuts will be especially invaluable.

I echo what Paul McKibben says (basic principles => huge difference).

You found an excellent balance of coverage vs. depth, as well as what to skip (you skipped some obscure details about fonts, but you spent 5-10s and a slide on them, which was enough that I would know that sub-topic exists and could do the research on my own).

White-space discussion was especially illuminating (even though it was about nothing;-). It might be interesting to show not just too-little vs. about right, but also what too much looks like.

Cons (all minor):

- Your voice had a little quaver. Was it nervousness? If so, you have no need for that anymore!

- One typo (I think) early in slides about color: complimentary vs. complementary.

Great talk. This reminded me very much of Donald Norman's _The Design of Everyday Things_. As software designers we sometimes get excited just that we made a working system and we forget to approach it from the user's perspective to make it truly useful.

This was a good talk about websockets in general and gave some good use cases for it. The presenter was very personable and I enjoyed listening to the story of how he successfully used websockets to solve his business problem.

I also particularly enjoyed talking about how PHP can be the server end of the socket and some of the problems inherent in that (i.e. 1024 connection limit, long-running process concerns).

Thought provoking examples we see every day in the real world. Smooth transitions through the points. Clean and easy to follow slides. Got crowd to participate and grabbed our attention multiple times throughout with unexpected slides.

As always, Lorna did quite well explaining the topic (webhooks), as well as demonstrating them using (and sufficiently explaining) related tools like Ngrok, RabbitMQ, and RequestBin.

Really good talk - awesome to have some of the things I thought I knew validated, and discovered new tools and ideas. Only small comment - I found that the delivery sometimes dropped in volume towards the ends of sections, and I lost some of what was being said - perhaps more my hearing than anything else!

Excellent overview of basic principles that make a huge difference. Thank you!

Good talk, I liked the real world examples of bad user interfaces which tied in with the objective very well.

Davey did an amazing job covering the new features in 7.1 and discussing some things to look forward to in the future. And yes, I am now following you on Twitter :-)