Category: php

Speaking at PHPUK
11 December 2009

I'm pleased to announce that this year I'll be speaking at PHPUK in London in February. I've attended this conference for the last three years, and attend its related user group, PHP London whenever I can find a reason to be in London on the right day. My talk this …
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PHP Advent 2009
04 December 2009

I'm very proud to be able to say "I'm a PHP Advent author" - I've been invited to take part in this year's event and my article One Step at a Time is now live!

My post this year is aimed as a reminder to us all that we can all …
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Speaking at PHP Benelux 2010
30 November 2009

I'm delighted to announce that I'm speaking at the inaugural PHP Benelux Conference, to be held on Saturday 30th January in Antwerp, Belgium. The talk will be "Passing the Joel Test in the PHP World"; I gave this talk PHPNW09 in October and it was well-received there, so hopefully I …
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Conference Biography Help
20 November 2009

I've been updating my conference details recently, in order to submit my talks for php|tek in Chicago (the call for papers closes on Monday - get your submissions in!). One thing which I struggled with is my biography, I used to have a paragraph which sort of said "Lorna is …
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Announcement: Editor-in-Chief of Ibuildings Techportal
04 November 2009

A few weeks ago I got a call from my employers, Ibuildings, asking me how I felt about changing my role a bit and taking on some of the functions of our PCE (PHP Centre of Expertise). This area of the company does some super-cool stuff and so I said …
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PHP Barcelona 2009: Round-Up
03 November 2009

I spent the last few days in sunny Spain at the PHP Barcelona conference as a speaker. Happily the most reasonably-priced flights gave me some time while I was there to get into the city, I was very keen to see it because I haven't been before. The trip was …
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Add a heartbeat method to your service
28 October 2009

Over the summer months I wrote a series of posts about designing APIs in general, and web services in particular. This included posts on status codes for web services, error feedback for web services, auth mechanisms for web services, saving state in web services and using version parameters with web …
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Book Review: PHP Team Development
15 October 2009

I was recently contacted by Packt Publishing asking if I would review a copy of one of their new titles - PHP Team Development. I happily agreed and the book promptly arrived in the post (just in time for me to take it on holiday and read it by the pool …
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PHPNW09: In Conclusion
13 October 2009

Last weekend was the second annual PHP North West Conference, held at Manchester Conference Centre and attended by 200 people. We kicked off our weekend on Friday night, with a pre-conference social in a pub near to the conference venue. There wasn't really enough space but it contained geeky things …
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PHP Code Sniffer Tutorial on Techportal
12 October 2009

I'm pleased to announce that a my tutorial on using PHP Code Sniffer is now available on techportal. I had the opportunity to work with PHPCS in a recent project and thought it was a great tool, and looked more closely into how it works and can be configured. I …
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Joel Test talk at PHPNW09
10 October 2009

Thanks to a wonderful combination of slideshare actually working and conference wifi being rather excellent, the slides from my talk "Passing the Joel Test in the PHP World" are now online, you can find them at http://www.slideshare.net/lornajane/passing-the-joel-test-in-the-php-world.

If you were there, please leave feedback for …
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PHPNW09: Weekend of PHP and Fun
29 September 2009

Having just put the finishing touches to the schedule for PHPNW09, I'm realising just how excited I am about this event coming up in less than a fortnight. This is the second year we've run the event, and its bigger and better than last year - and I know what a …
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