Talk comments

Scott Hardie at 17:48 on 11 Feb 2018

Really good tutorial! You covered a huge breadth of ideas efficiently and effectively, and I really liked the game of trying to decrypt those strings. In the first practice activity, if there was a way to get the CSV data into the getters class, I couldn't find it, and I wasted the first 15 minutes just writing my own, so some clarity on that point would have been appreciated. Thanks for the great tutorial!

Scott Hardie at 17:44 on 11 Feb 2018

This was great! I appreciated that you introduced xdebug first, since there were undoubtedly still a few neophytes among the many longtime users in attendance. You even cracked wise about the obviously false fire alarm and kept right on going. Bravo!

on Xdebug

Scott Hardie at 17:41 on 11 Feb 2018

Great speech with solid career advice and some terrific anecdotes. I wish every presenter could have been this practiced and confident and engaging.

Scott Hardie at 17:38 on 11 Feb 2018

I'm really excited to use some of these new features! This is great stuff and I appreciate the walkthrough. My only request would be to see examples of query results affected by the new features, as further illustration.

on MySQL 8

Scott Hardie at 17:35 on 11 Feb 2018

This speech didn't seem as relevant specifically to developers as the description indicated, but I did like the humor and the focus on an underappreciated, undervalued skill in our line of work. Loved the Star Trek jokes; well chosen.

Scott Hardie at 17:32 on 11 Feb 2018

What a thorough and helpful overview of the AWS system. The evolving diagrams made a huge difference; we would have been lost without them. This could have been livened up with a little more humor or energy, but otherwise this was very good. Thank you!

Scott Hardie at 17:30 on 11 Feb 2018

Personally I didn't really care for the material presented, since it feels reductive to slot people into simple categories and treat them all like they're manipulable accordingly. That said, this was one of the most polished and well-delivered presentations of the conference; you are a talented speaker.

Scott Hardie at 17:23 on 11 Feb 2018

This seemed like an ad for a conference sponsor, not relevant to PHP developers unless they already work in global e-commerce.

Scott Hardie at 17:20 on 11 Feb 2018

Good speech! I liked the practical examples, and the dashes of humor. My only advice is to introduce the concept of code reviews at the beginning -- you asked for a show of hands as to who wasn't doing reviews, then launched into specifics about how to improve reviews, without defining the concept for the uninitiated who had raised their hands.

Scott Hardie at 17:16 on 11 Feb 2018

Good presentation! I appreciated your little touches of humor, the specificity of your examples, and you asking us if we were already familiar with certain topics so that they could be skipped or explained accordingly. My only advice is to slow down a little to let some of the ideas sink in. Well done!