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

I loved this talk - especially the idea that if we just stopped building impenetrable fences, we wouldn't need to worry about how to get everyone to see over the fence equally. Make a better fence, not a better set of boxes!

I could tell that Ashley was very knowledgeable about the topic, but I think the nerves struck hard. Relax - you got this!
I would suggest making the code samples bigger, so that they can be read by the whole room (you've got the whole screen, use it), and avoid the black text on white - the projectors blow those out pretty bad, so it makes it hard to follow the examples. I had to rely heavily on your reading the samples out, and it made it much more difficult to follow.

As someone not familiar with Apigility or Sencha Touch, I was really looking forward to learning about how these tools might improve our workflow. Unfortunately, I never got a sense of why I would do so. It seemed like a very complicated way to create an API.

I could tell that there was a lot of knowledge behind the presentation, but I'm afraid it got lost in trying to show us every change that needed to be made between the GUI and the implementation ( I found it to be too repetitive ) and flipping back and forth so much made it very disjointed.

I also found the setup instructions very daunting at first glance. Apigility has a composer installation option, and I was able to get it up and running on a docker stack in just a few minutes. Whether it's a docker implementation, vagrant, or some other solution, having some pre-defined environment would help tremendously to get everyone up and running quickly, then you don't need to go over setting up mysql or any of those items.

Luis is a very good presenter. I could see the code on his slides from the back of the room, and he explained the concepts very nicely and then supported with examples. You should teach a course!

I learned so much from Nic. It was knowledge I may never have seeked out. So I very much appreciate it. Also, your adorable sidekick and the pac man jacket were bonuses!

Organized and very helpful and applicable talk. Thank you Nancy! Excited to read your book.

This was a very interesting conversation with a well rounded and knowledgeable panel. Great topic selection!

Really good presentation. This material can be hard for some to follow, but you made it sound easy and your passion for functional programming made a difference. Although I prefer real-world examples (the Spotify example was clearer to follow than something generic like "a(b(c))"), the colors and arrows and gestures while pointing to each part of the code made it possible to learn some complicated ideas quickly.

Very helpful overview. This is the kind of skills-fortification presentation that should be a major part of any conference like this, and it's appreciated. I do wish there were more real-world code examples demonstrating the concepts, rather than generic "class X extends Y" or "class Tail extends Dog" kinds of examples, because seeing real code makes the advantages so much clearer.

What a great tutorial session! This was hugely helpful (my team could do a whole lot more with this) and easy to follow, and fun. Given how similar Mock is to PHPUnit, I do wish that Mock had been glossed over quickly in favor of spending more time on Codeception, the truly different tool of the three and the most potentially promising for some specific business contexts.