SunshinePHP 2018
8 - 10 Feb 2018 at Embassy Suites Miami International

It was a good introduction and I learnt a few good tips. I thought the exercises were unnecessary, the time would have been better spent looking at common errors in code or doing some code reviews.

I took extensive notes during this presentation. Having been on both sides of code reviews, it really does help to hear that some of the problems and frustrations I've felt are somewhat common. I think after having gone to this talk, I'm going to start looking at other code reviews on my team, and now I have some weapons for combating the issues that arise when giving/taking suggestions. Great talk!

The talk was very interesting. It answered a few questions I was always curious about.

Derick gave an excellent deep dive into Xdebug. He covered the basic, showed live examples with PhpStorm, and introduced me to features I had not used yet. Great technical talk.

Great fun talk! Really enjoyed seeing what's out there.

This was a great hands-on tutorial. Working with someone else during the activities really caused me to step outside of my comfort zone. It was a great experience for me. I wasn't able to participate in the Unit Testing activity because I had no idea how to start. So unless you've already had experience with Unit Testing, I don't think this activity was helpful. For me, I guess it would have been helpful to start with an example that everyone can follow along with.

I have been in this position a lot. Generally, we opt to just increase the memory limit on the script and add a comment about kicking the can down the road. Using generators seems like a great way to reduce the overhead of loading 4 copies of a multi-gigabyte data set into memory. I didn't really understand them at first, but after seeing them used in practice, I get it. :)

The slides and font could have been larger. Sitting anywhere past the first row made things difficult to read/see. Didn't affect my rating, since I think once you work out the technical issues, the material doesn't change and is still great.

I have to echo Scott Hardie's comment, the talk sounded a bit like an infomercial. Learned a few interesting tidbits about e-commerce and excited at the idea of being able to trace a product's origin - though I remain sceptical in view of how that's (not) working out with foodstuffs in British Columbia (but that's another story). :)

Federico had a great easy going presentation style. I do wish he'd repeated questions and comments from the audience before answering them, as many people didn't speak loudly or clearly and I missed quite a bit of what was said.

Topic very well presented and organized. I've read a lot about the topic of personality traits. The presentation remained in the general rather than the specific. To be fair it's next to impossible to dive into specifics in a short hour. That said, I think the information would have been very valuable for people attending, particularly those who hadn't been exposed to these concepts before.

The topic was interesting. Using personal, real life, examples drove the points home. I love that while the talk was about tech, it is quite transferable to other areas as well.

Having used real estate websites, and having found them generally appaling from a UI/UX and accessibility perspective, I now can't help but wonder how land real estate sites and systems perform :D