Talk comments

Good into to Hack. Actually made me think about using it for some projects.

I enjoyed this walk through of getting started with Symfony2 and also the honesty Margaret brought explaining that she was speaking from her experience rather than just parroting what is in best practice documentation. I think she covered the subject well and even took time to ask for questions in the middle of the presentation which helped people digest the material. She definitely delivered exactly what she said she would. Great job!

Anyone can be a great technical developer. Ed's talk covers what it means to be a great human being in the world of development. This message is very important and Ed drove it home well. I took several things away from this talk, and really enjoyed how Ed was able to inject his own personality into the talk.

I like this introduction to Hack. It was very thorough and explained things by example which is always a good thing. I think Joel covered the notable differences in PHP code and code using Hack very well and even gave us a bonus by explaining some benefits and information about how we can get started. Overall a solid talk.

I enjoyed the coverage of a topic that I know a lot of developers struggle with. Brian had great advice and examples to illustrate the differences between JavaScript and PHP. His presentation style is also good and I was able to tell he has great familiarity with the topic.

I do agree with what Jordan said. I think having some reinforcement would help some of the examples. And there were often times when the example code was breezed through quickly. Taking a little more time to go over the examples in depth would help drive the points home.

Anonymous at 13:06 on 8 Nov 2014

Interesting talk about the things you have to do to maintain a community, and how to do open source maintenance.

What Eric covered is great. This is an important topic especially for people wanting to improve their quality of code and Eric did a good job of showing exactly how you can get started with continuous testing–and even other code quality tools–tomorrow when you get home.

I think Eric could expand this talk a bit to cover the time a little better by including some more information about why this is important, perhaps through anecdotes or examples of times these tools, and specifically these tools run continuously, has helped him and his team.

Overall it's a good talk and an important message.

I'm glade tech conferences promote that type of "non tech" talks.
I loved the personal feedback, the stories shared. Not so much the numbers. Thanks for the resources too, I have something to bring back to my company.

Great talk; covers basics of refactoring and dives into practical examples of how.

Brian did a great job comparing some basic concepts that translate (and don't) from PHP to JavaScript. He has a good understanding of the material and speaks confidently.

That said, I would recommend that he take time to pace himself and revisit example code multiple times to reinforce the ideas in the talk. He finished early and I think could have taken some time to go through related concepts and examples. Additionally, there were cases where there was a lot of code on the screen and I'd recommend highlighting lines attendees should focus on.