php[world] 2016
14 - 18 Nov 2016 at Sheraton Tyson's Corner

This presentation was excellent. The overview of Blackfire was nice, but the explanation of profiling in PHP and how to make things go faster made it worth attending. Thank you!

This presentation was both excellent and confusing at times. For example, I was a little confused by some of the examples such as what he referred to as a dependency and recipe-cpt.php, but maybe those make more sense to a Wordpress developer. However, I thought Steve did a nice job of explaining that technical debt is, when it is bad, and when it is good. I thought the idea of making documentation review a part of the code review process was a superb idea.

Great presentation. I thought the history part of the presentation was a little bit dry. However, I really liked the 7 strategies portion of the talk a lot more. I would have liked to learn more about the challenges of implementing those 7 strategies in a larger organization like NPR. Great Job!

The presentation explained things very well, but I think the applications are limited to people with large codebases and/or large infrastructures. I still enjoyed it.

I cannot recommend this enough. Very eye opening. I thought of myself as being very open-minded and forward-thinking in general, but this talk really opened my eyes to all the things that I do take for granted on a daily basis, especially while coding.

Most of this talk was slightly over my head and I have a mental block when it comes to async. So while I thought the topic was really interesting, my procedural mind kept glazing over some of the more advanced bits as I kept thinking to myself: "But how is that possible? How does it work?" I, personally, may have benefitted more from a "How does this magic thing happen" perspective. But there was a lot of ground to cover in a limited timeframe.

I try to be empathetic towards people in my everyday life. Thank you, Ed, for helping me see that to be a great developer, I should also practice that empathy towards the consumers of the products I work on.

I really needed this talk. I try too hard to plan for the future of a code base, without looking for the "MVP". This talk really helped solidify the fact that "perfect never ships". Thank you Graham!

The only reason to short this a thumb (giving 4 instead of 5) is due to the very dry nature of the content. Kevin did a fantastic job of going into the details needed to learn a lot of stuff that I didn't even realize existed.

Very charismatic and knowledgable presenter. I really enjoyed the presentation and will probably buy the book he was referring to. Loved it! Thanks.