Talk comments

Thanks for the tip on https://knowbility.org/services/ -- passed on to Bankrate and Red Ventures dev teams.

I enjoyed this quite a bit. I like the humor incorporated into the talk. A lot of the slides being pictures does make the slides a little less meaningful outside the context. Specifically the "Premature optimization is the root of all evil" slide. I'm definitely going to have to go and look that up outside of the context.

Overall, I really liked the talk, I'll definitely be talking about and trying out Xhprof at work! I'm also interested in looking up the Valgrind output for PHP. I've never even thought to try that before!

I always like functional programming talks and I think that this was broken down into clear steps and provided a logical explanation of composition and the importance of currying in FP. I really enjoyed the use of real world examples. I think those are the kinds of things that display the benefits of FP as a paradigm instead of making it look like just an esoteric byproduct of academia.

People just want to USE the stuff, and you show them how! To paraphrase Douglas Crockford, you don't need to understand category theory to use a monad, the same way you don't need to know spanish to eat a burrito.

The talk was great, slides were excellent, and so was the audience engagement!

Kerri gave a good talk about asking questions and developing skills to understand the "why" better. Fun talk with personal stories.

This was a great talk that helped me understand why inclusive design is important and made me reflect on projects. Great talk!

Amanda gave a great talk that I could totally relate to. The style was relaxed, the examples were very pertinent, and the talk went smooth.

Alena gave a well-prepared talk with good supporting code examples and stepped through how scoping works in PHP. Coming into the talk I thought the talk was about project scope, but I should have read the abstract to verify. It was a good refresher talk and worth the time attending. Alena keeps the audience engaged, keeps a good pace, and demonstrates great knowledge and application.

David J Eddy at 15:55 on 12 Feb 2018

Very well explained. AWS can be very daunting but you laid it out in such a way as to make it approachable. If anything the passing is a bit slow in the center; maybe some humor or attendant participation to keep everyone focused during the dry-er parts.

Enjoyed the talk enough to attend your follow up on the un-con track as well.

Jeremy Hennig at 14:16 on 12 Feb 2018

Gave a great walk though of simple but common tasks. Time was well managed.
Really liked the symfony/console bit which added that little "extra" to the talk.

Jeremy Hennig at 14:11 on 12 Feb 2018

Great tutorial, I learnt quite a bit. Time was well managed and the pace was perfect as I didn't get bored with a single concept.