php[tek] 2024
23 - 25 Apr 2024 at Sheraton O’Hare Hotel

Much of the talk was simply an overview of PHP best practices that weren't specific to technical debt and alot of mild humor. I only made it 25 minutes before realizing I it was a different topic...so maybe it could have come around in the end. It may have been a good talk but was way off the "the concept of technical debt, its potential to devastate projects, and red flags that project teams can look for to reduce its impact before it spirals out of control."

Lots of potential as the speaker was knowledgeable, organized, and a clear, direct speaker.

Covered the topic very well. Would suggest adding some live code or videos of using and/or configuring phpstan in IDEs. I feel that would (1) give a better visual sense of what phpstan can do and (2) further illustrate configuration options of phpstan.

I went to same talk last year, This year was even better as some new developments were brought in and some additional use case narratives added. Appreciate how well prepared the talk was and the enthusiasm he maintained. Excellent mix of covering the details needed to plan Oauth2 client while looking at bigger architecture picture. Could use a little more "news" on where oauth identity providers are at in terms of adopting various RFCs and standards versions.

The summary of the process of developing the package was useful and informative and covered some basic agile approaches to packages. The end result didn't seem useful as it was a generic ETL inside of PSR-15 with contributed extraction or loader packages. Sort of the most generic approach to (1) you get a thing, (2) you change it and (3) you put it into another thing. Since the E, T, and L objects can be anything you want them to be this package doesn't offer much more than a "pattern".

Hit the spot. Covered the specific topic very well while bringing it back into the context of group work/communication. Included a subtheme on recovering some of the team tools we threw out when we went remote.

Well delivered and planned. Could have gotten more into application of Enums as a means to illustrate claims about benefits of Enums.

Hit the spot. Got some very specific suggestions as well as updates on the current versions. Great refresher on xdebug from the source.

Well prepared and executed.

Always well prepared and on topic. Wouldn't change a thing.

Excellent walk through of packaging example that was right on the workshop's description. The talk followed a complex example while interweaving basic tenants of refactoring like test coverage within the context of the packaging process. Good slides and timing/meter.