php[world]
10 - 14 Nov 2014 at Sheraton Tyson's Corner

A strong talk filled with a lot of good advice, though a good portion of it was less about WordPress and more about general web performance and optimization. Perhaps the talk could be refactored to focus on web performance as a whole, expanding your target audience in the process?

The "Buzzfeed List" approach works really well for a topic like this, especially when divided into the different topic headings. The recap of the most important/effective tips at the end also helped those newer to the topic prioritize, which I'm sure was appreciated.

A fantastic introduction to testing, particularly within the context of WordPress. Good explanation of the difference between unit and integration tests early on, which helped support the use cases for the WP core testing library v. WP_Mock (both useful w/ distinct purposes).

Had scheduling worked out differently, this talk would have been a great intro course _before_ the "Testing as Regression Prevention" workshop(s), as this talk featured more fundamental concepts while the workshops provided a venue to apply the concepts.

Excellent content, and presented very professionally. Highly recommend any presentation by Paul. Everyone in the room had experienced in the past or on current projects exactly what Paul was going through, and his recommendations for how to deal with it are great.

Very informative. Started out a little rough with trying to get a local network running and code up on audience computers, but the presentation was rock solid. Learned a lot.

Thanks for the feedback!

Bart, I'm still really trying to develop my signature design when it comes to my slide layouts. This was a design I've been experimenting with, and I was using basically three different background colors to signal transitions, content, and short, Tweet-able bits. Based on your feedback and some other feedback I've received, I'm going to go back to the drawing board and work on a new layout for my slides that keeps things interesting.

I've always been wary of live demos, because you never know if things are going to work or not. But now I'm thinking about pre-recording some screencast-style demos to build into future talks since many people learn better by seeing some of the code worked through instead of just discussed on a slide.

Joe - you're right, I even felt that in my delivery - the sections I ad libbed a bit seemed more interesting and natural sounding than the ones that were more scripted.

Thanks for all the great feedback - you guys have given me some solid ideas for improving this talk!

I liked this talk. I've been reading Paul's ADR work recently. The talk helped fill in some blanks. I also simply enjoy listening to Paul's talks.

Very informative and entertaining talk. It was nice learning all the different bits, even if it was how to avoid them.

I love presentations showing some code.
That was a nice overview of what you can do with Symfony Components.
Thanks, Andreas!

Great talk with lots of explanation on the finer points of choosing and then creating a disposable development environment. Definitely going to take these lessons back to my dev team.