SunshinePHP 2014
6 - 8 Feb 2014 at Embassy Suites Miami International

Timing was awkward on this. What's not mentioned is that the happy hour was at the same time as a Panel, which was followed by the game (which was fun, if not at all PHP/programming related) ... while at the same time the hackathon was scheduled.

It meant that two things happened:

1. It was hard to hear the panel (and I was sitting up front), because everyone at the open bar in the back of the room was being very disrespectful and talking loudly having their own conversations instead of listening to the panel or stepping outside. And none of the conference organizers stepped up to handle the situation.

2. The hackathon was not super-well attended. I heard from many attendees who wanted to go to the hackathon, that they didn't because they stayed for the panel & games, then realized the hackathon was 'half-over', so they just left instead.

Might have been better to have things laid out more linearly on the schedule, and/or had more control over the open bar situation

I hadn't actually heard @crell speak before. He is a very polished and effective speaker. The topic was well presented (even if one might disagree with it), reasons given, and clearly argued with calls to action. Bravo.

Absolutely amazing (and entertaining) talk. Amazing work on the slides and pulling the concept together with humor and examples. Could have been a great keynote.

This was a good presentation, on Apigility. But seemed out of place as a keynote IMO. The first half of the talk was very good as it went into the problems of building an API.

But then it turned into a "So use Apigility", which yes, is an AWESOME product that I highly endorse. But I was surprised to suddenly see half-of-a-keynote (plenary?) become suddenly a pitch to use Apigility.

Especially when the advertising for this talk mentioned nothing about Apigility. So I was expecting just a general inspirational API API API style keynote.

Had this been pitched as a regular session, with the title: "APIs are hard: Introducing Apigility". Then I think it's a 5-star talk.

Excellent job - Paul is a fantastic communicator. Great overview of Aura - though - I'm not entirely convinced yet on how or why I would architect anything in my own architecture to have no external dependencies; because of that reason (I was hoping to be fully convinced, not just presented why Solar/Aura did it....) I will rate a 4. Otherwise it was a 5 - again, a great talk by Paul. I'm a new fan! :)

I was happy to see someone talking about profiling PHP applications - for that alone this talk gets a 3. I did not know about the XHGui tool, and I'll give another thumbs up for that - it will help make my life so much easier.

However, there is a little bit of efficiency that could be gained from practicing this talk a few times ... I would really work on it and hone it a bit - perhaps run the ab tool live on a Wordpress vm. Maybe don't apologize for the inefficiency of your VM so much... mention it once and move on.

Otherwise, great delivery. Thanks for sharing!

Incredible talk - very impressed with Rasmus' stance on doing things that matter and his response to the the community-at-large who like to dramatize the happenings inamongst the most vocal of us on Twitter. Thanks for being honest and candid, Rasmus!

Code refactors could have moved quicker, but would have been tolerable at length if it were done as live-coding or playback ... the two examples presented were great - but a single example could have sufficed. The second example ends in a 'good enough' state - would have liked to see it go further. Overall - good talk, very comfortable speaking in front of a crowd.

*Amazing* talk. I genuinely learned more in this hour than I have at my last 3 conferences combined.

Very inspiring and from the heart Rasmus!