php[tek] 2023
16 - 18 May 2023 at Sheraton O'hare

This is exactly the kind of talk I needed to push me into finally playing around with Rust.

Cori is super great and this talk was just so edifying. I am also a hobbyist and see "touching grass" as essential to both my mental and emotional health and to my value as a team member at my company. Really happy to see talks like this coming out of the PHP community. I have definitely seen people in workplaces who can check all the technical boxes but who lack the essential skills that Cori talked about, and being aware that these core skills are important and need to be nurtured and grown is really vital to building effective teams.

A great reminder that so many bugs in PHP happen due to mismatched types and unexpected states.

I liked the presentation, liked the slide program used. Was a great demonstration on the importance of injecting your dependencies.

So much great info.

Really liked the talk and the examples, excited to review the slides slowly and carefully to help transform our development process.

While the exercise was nice, I think in a limited time slot its best to spend more on the speaking. Talking through one or two possible approaches (pre-written) would have been more engaging. Word cloud was great.

Great talk, I’ve been using GitGuardian for some time now and seeing alternative methods to help stopping secrets from getting into the repo was great!

Unfortunately this came across very disjointed. I don’t think the slides added value, so perhaps just having a direct conversational approach would flow better. The word cloud was very cool. The algorithm exercise was interesting, though I think it would be good to express a little more clarity around what the expectation there is. The message of taking hold of your future by making deliberate choices instead of letting the future just happen to you is a great one, thank you for sharing it with us.

Super interesting talk! Gave me a lot of information on REST in a way that was approachable and saved me from having to drag myself through academic language on the topic. Really appreciate Ian doing the work to bring this to us!