Welcome! I'm Lorna: engineer, author and speaker. I'm a Developer Evangelist and I love technology and sharing technology with others. On this site you'll find my blog and links to all the other things I think you (or I) might need to know about me - my opinions are my own and not those of my employer or any other organisation. If you'd like to get in touch, I'd be delighted to hear from you.
From The Blog
08 Apr
2019
Handy Beanstalkd Admin Console
I've been building apps with queues lately and mostly using beanstalkd as my queue because it is very simple, very fast and on my platform it is
[apt install beanstalkd] -easy to install. I have also been using a handy web interface for beanstalkd which I like so much that I felt I ought to share! It's beanstalk-console, which is a PHP-based web interface to one (or many) beanstalkd servers. Continue reading 27 Feb
2019
HTTP Toolbox
As Web Developers, we need to know how to work with HTTP from every angle. I gave a 2-hour tutorial at PHP UK that included some of my most trusted tools - but it was sold out and a bunch of people asked me if there was video (there wasn't, tutorials make little sense when videoed). Instead, I thought I'd try to set out a self-study version of the workshop (I rarely teach these days so I'm unlikely to deliver it anywhere else).
There's a slide deck, some exercises and a sample repo on GitHub ... let's dive in! Continue reading
26 Feb
2019
Using Tags in your OpenAPI Spec
Working with OpenAPI is bringing so many possibilities to the way that developers work with APIs, it's exciting! The spec is very comprehensive though and I've found myself answering questions on individual aspects of it recently, so I thought I'd capture one or two of those things here. Today: tags. Continue reading
