API Testing with Runscope

I work with a lot of APIs and I really appreciate good tools. Lately I’ve been really enjoying using Runscope for testing and monitoring my APIs so I thought I’d share how I work with this tool, which has a … Continue reading

API Survival Kit Workshop

The slides and “cheatsheet” resource for my FOWA tutorial. Probably only useful to people who saw the rest of the workshop though … Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/lornajane/api-survival Reference: http://web.lornajane.net/attendee.html

Web Frontend, API Backend

ZendCon’s main stage was my setting for this talk, and it was quite an experience! This talk is really a case study, showing how to build a simple API and wire it up to a basic website, and it’s fun … Continue reading

Web Frontend, API Backend

This talk is really a case study of how and why you might build a website or other application out of two pieces: a frontend and a backend. This conference publishes video so that will appear in due course, but … Continue reading

Web Frontend, API Backend

I had a lot of fun giving this talk for the virtual PHP user group, Nomad PHP. What I love about this group is that it’s open to everyone, wherever and whoever you are. They hold events in varying timezones … Continue reading

A Community API

A short talk at APIStrat in Amsterdam about the joind.in API.

Best Practice in API Design

This talk was at CodeConnexx in Maastricht, which was a mixed web technologies and soft skills event. Since the audience were of many different technical disciplines, this talk aims more at HTTP-level advice rather than implementation details.