ZendCon 2017
23 - 26 Oct 2017 at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino

I really liked the visual representation of speed using the fractals. My biggest complaint would be, I felt as if the talk didn't get to the point fast enough. I found myself urging time to go faster so it would be done.

To quote another commenter: could be streamlined (3 -> 4 -> 5 -> 7 would be more meaningful than skipping all around, in some cases working backwards)

I misunderstood the "progressive" part of the description, and because of this, I did not get to experience the class the same as other commenters.

The "game" was good. I would have liked to have had a note in the description about a PC being mandatory. As it is written, it isn't clear a PC is required. I interpreted the "come ready" as a "prepared to take lots of notes". I would have liked to learn less about how it works and more about best practices or coding standards to make my programming more secure.

Federico sounded like a great team player and gave some good examples of coming together as a team and some potential pitfalls. Most of the points were more geared towards project management instead of developers. The keynote should have gone a bit longer, and the overall theme didn't quite fit in as an ending keynote though, which is usually a celebration of the conference focus and a motivational send-off.

Colin gave an insightful presentation on CommonMark and covered lots of material that was new to me. It was great to see how to parse and customize markdown, and good resources were given. I really liked seeing code on the screen, which to me is more helpful than a dozen slides explaining it. Great presentation and great code examples.

Great talk by Philippe on multi-factor authentication. He had enthusiasm and gave good examples of forms of authenticating. I would suggest spending less time talking about the why and more time about the how. I have always seen mfa broken out into 3 categories instead of 4, so that was an interesting take on breaking things apart a little further. Good talk with an engaging speaker and great Q and A at the end.

The first 10 or 15 minutes of the talk were really interesting and covered great material, but then the talk abruptly ended. I was hoping to see perhaps a live demo or a recording of the chatbots in action. I did learn while the talk was going in areas I haven't learned about in the past, but the talk was too short.

Great idea and good teamwork for the presentation Michael and David. The live demo went pretty smooth and showed why it is important to bake security in at all levels. Well done.

Brandon did very well on this presentation. He made good arguments, presented his idea, and taught from experience. Slides and flow were smooth and understandable. He identified common reasons projects fail and gave some hints to help projects succeed. I would suggest not using the term "guys" since it isn't inclusive and can make some attendees feel uncomfortable. Overall it was a good talk.

I attended this talk not really knowing how to use PHP with IoT devices and left feeling confident I can go and make a smart connected device with my Raspberry Pis. Colin showed his experience and enthusiasm for building devices and gave clear and helpful technical details, including code examples. Great talk!