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10 - 14 Nov 2014 at Sheraton Tyson's Corner

good overview of silex

Great talk that covers everything from granular user permissions to plugins that can potentially help lock down your site. Perfect starting material for anyone using WordPress for more than just a casual blog.

Great intro to Magento 2 (with some background of Magento 1 for those in the room that were not familiar).

great presentation. lots of good information to work with in the future.

Great down to earth, real-world talk about what it's like to build a company. I'm glad to hear another developer-turned-founder talking about this and not just touting the benefits, but also showing that it's a struggle, and that if you're struggling you shouldn't give up or view yourself as a failure - we all struggle through this process.

In the future, if there's an opportunity to present this talk that has a longer time slot, I think including a really specific example of a low-point you reached and how you recovered from it would be comforting for other developers-turned-founders as they hit those low points themselves. It's important that everyone understands that while we put on a brave face, we all have those struggles as we build a company, and that doesn't mean we're bad at it or failing at it.

HOLY CRAP!

This was a great talk. I go to a lot of conferences and see a lot of keynotes but this one stands out above the rest. I've seen Luke speak before about FoxyCart and each time I do, I learn a little more and am encouraged to keep powering on with my own "hobby, soon to be business".

If you are a developer building a company as a side project, YOU NEED TO SEE THIS TALK!

I don't use Symfony myself. Some good lessons here and gotten some resource links that I will look upon.

Very good talk. I saw the announcement for Forge and understood what it was for but I didn't understand the details of what I can do with it. Thanks to this talk I do.

Quite a bit of good advice in this talk. Would like to see the section on "WordPress caching" refined a bit to illustrate the differences between object caching and in-app page caching, but all in all it was OK.

One piece of errata: WordPress' database _does_ include indexes by default, just not those that the presenter happened to need for his client projects. Still, the majority of the DB optimization recommendations (i.e. selecting the proper DB engine for your use case) were spot-on.