True North PHP 2015
5 - 7 Nov 2015 at Microsoft Canada

Bold choice for the font. :)

Pacing could have been a little more spry. Definitely not a deal breaker, though.

Terrific content.

Thanks for the talk. Thanks for participating in open source.

Very useful talk and loved the sense of humour. :) well done!

Nice intro to PhpSpec.

As always, Mark was both informative and entertaining. He put his own mistakes/vulnerabilities on display in a way we could all relate to ... and used them as teaching opportunities to help us all be better developers.

Lots of great wisdom in this talk, including emphasis on soft skills necessary to build an effective team, investments in tooling, giving the entire team access to all the code managed by everyone else, keeping a documented team vision up-to-date. Mark explained multiple ways where splitting things into milestones, whether projects or problems or code standards, added value and helped defeat the "monster" Freshbooks faced when needing to survive and grow.

Mark also celebrated the contributions made to his team's success,including by audience members in the room.

Mark is highly knowledgeable and relatable. Lots of laughs all around the room.

Great value from experiences in-the-trenches. "If we can do it, then you probably can too!"

Great intro to BDD.

Nice overview of phpspec and how it fit in the testing ecosystem. Made me want to try it.

Not the first time I've seen Mark talk, has a great stage presence and communicates his thoughts and ideas very well. Really awesome to hear some real life stories about fixing old code, there was a great mix of theory and practicality. Delivery of the jokes and humorous aspects of the talk landed well and were in a good proportion for my taste. Awesome talk, thanks for giving it!

Fantastic talk. A story from the trenches of legacy code, concentrating on management tactics for the modernization approach. Less emphasis on SOA per se and more on the attitude/mentality of the transition process.