php[world] 2015
16 - 20 Nov 2015 at Sheraton Premiere

I felt that this talk was very well developed and executed. A bit focused on the junior audience, but that's okay. The challenge in talking about debuggers is that while they all involve similar tools, they're difficult to discuss specifically without using a specific toolset; I think the balance here was just right. Things for improvement might be a focus on intermittent bugs (e.g. figuring out what set of circumstances triggers an intermittent bug), and race conditions (which do happen). Overall, solid work!

Giving a talk without slides is hard enough, and giving one this personal is even more challenging. Lorna did a fantastic job, and shared some deeply personal insights about her experiences that translate really well to community engagement and involvement. Excellent talk all around.

Focusing on this many items in such a short time means the speaker spoke far too quickly and didn't give enough focus on each item. Conference talks should be about educating, not performance art.

Good primer on how JS differs from PHP conceptually and in practice. The main draw for this talk is the reinforcement that we need to regularly explore tech outside of our silo/niche and learn from what others are doing.

Provided an honest, open look at the mistakes made during the lifetime of a long running project and advice on how to avoid them or at least identify them and make adjustments.

This talk was very inspiring! Especially the parts about not giving up - something that's (unfortunately) so easy to do.

Margaret: I think the git bisect examples were correct - you do "git bisect bad" or "git bisect good". The commit # is optional. https://git-scm.com/docs/git-bisect

Really nice talk. It would have been better had you talked about some subjects in detail. For instance, when you talked about git bisect your example wash't completely correct. It would have been git bad {commit log #} or something like that. For someone that doesn't understand this concept it would have been unclear as to how to use it. Obviously google is your friend but still would have been nice for some detail here and there. Other than that great talk just thought to add some positive criticism.

Another great talk (about a completely different subject) by Samantha. I learned quite a bit about caching. Again, you're a great speaker.

Interesting trivia on the error messages you might get. I really enjoyed the talk. I don't know if I'll ever see any of those errors, but it's good to have heard of them if I do :)