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
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
28 Jan
2019
Windows removed my grub menu
I know this will happen to me again at a bad moment so I'm putting it here on my blog and hoping I can find it in my future hour of need ...
My work machine is a Windows PC, with dual boot to the Ubuntu partition that I actually use. Sometimes, when booting Windows, it "repairs" its disks and removes my grub menu, booting straight into Windows without showing me the grub menu.
To fix this: interrupt the startup, choose the boot device and pick the Ubuntu partition from the list.
Once booted, you can boot-repair to sort out grub - I also travel with a boot disk, just in case!
