SunshinePHP 2016
4 - 6 Feb 2016 at Embassy Suites Miami International

This was a good talk on a better implementation of future flags. While I did learn a lot, I wish the examples were a little more real-world and in-depth. The library looks cool and I look forward to trying it out sometime.

Michelangelo obviously knows his stuff. For those of utilizing Windows local dev, rather than OSX or Linux, it would be really helpful to have a few screens in there for setup. Otherwise the examples and tutorial was useful and Michelangelo was really helpful.

Loved your enthusiasm for the subject. I think you may have lost half your audience by doing the live coding and not foreshadowing the fact you'd hit deeper OOP concepts later in the presentation. As always, live coding makes everyone look foolish. There's no escaping that. By using your existing code and just walking us through what you've already done to explain terms/syntax/usage you would have eliminated any chance of mistakes. Additionally, by showing a quick outline of where you're taking us, you probably would have kept a significant portion of the crowd. It's just conjecture, but I believe the simplicity of the opening class/object example lead a number of people to assume the 2nd half would be nothing more than a continuation of the cookbook/recipe code. I noticed several of the people around me that left never bothered to pull the code from Git. So they were unaware of the IntroX.php examples showing the deeper OOP concepts.

Nice slides & a clear presentation of this topic along with great discussion afterwards.

Fantastic talk about community involvement and how anyone can contribute to the knowledge and growth of others.

A really wonderful look at how contributing to the community can change your business life for the better. It's amazing how community connections can lead you places you didn't expect to be. One suggestion would be to shorten the section of the talk that addresses Josh's past employment. A couple of examples of how the community influenced his career path are sufficient, and that would leave more time for the rest of the talk after that section which felt a bit rushed. All in all, inspiring and a great keynote, and I really appreciate Josh's honesty and passion for the topic.

Prior to the talk we were asked to download and install various Docker software so I was expecting there would be an opportunity to do a practical exercise. I expected the speaker might say "ok now type this command" etc etc and we would all follow along step by step with the speaker doing a bit of hand holding.

Samantha has great knowledge of the content and without my typing the commands, I understood clearly what was happening on her screen. She has a great understanding of the topic and always gives helpful responses to questions. I love hearing Samantha talk. I always learn a lot!

Really great and powerful talk about getting involved in the community and how it can not only impact your professional life, but your personal life as well.

I got a great idea of how Docker can work and how that is different from the vagrant that I use at work. I learned about some tools that I can use to get started with Docker.

As a tutorial, it was difficult to view and follow the examples. Color at the prompt in bash would be helpful as well as increasing size. The video demos of the terminal were helpful when you paused them, so maybe breaking them into smaller chunks would make the commands easier to follow.

You explained what was happening very well! Even though I couldn't read the terminal bits, I followed the concepts by your description, I just couldn't always read the command being typed.