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
14 Jul
2018
Kitchen Island Project
We built our first "big" project (well, since the play kitchen a few years ago) since moving to this house nearly a year ago: a new kitchen island! I used to blog a lot about the house and crafts and things, then I got better known for code things and got stagefright and stopped ... but I love this stuff and I'll blog it if I want to :)
09 Jul
2018
Presenting from PDF
I've been using PDF as a file format for presentations for the last ~8 years and I LOVE it. The clue is in the name: Portable Document Format: it's an open standard, and works everywhere. You can embed your fonts, images, whatever ... if you end up presenting it from another machine for some reason, everything is going work, even when you want to upload the slides afterwards. Yet, it's still a pretty unusual choice, I think because people don't know much about the tooling around it - so I thought I'd share some of my tips.
Today: tools for actually delivering a PDF presentation (I make them with rst2pdf ). Continue reading
31 May
2018
Bind Services to OpenWhisk Packages
When working with serverless actions, often we'll still need to access some sort of service, whether it's object storage, a database, or whatever. Here's a quick overview of how this works for IBM Cloud Functions (plus some gotchas ....) Continue reading
