The Setup

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Hey Stac, December 2016

An interview with me about my tools, with the lovely people at Hey Stac!

This week on The Setup we speak to @lornajane, Developer Advocate for IBM Cloud Data Services. https://t.co/FvFdByQGqK

— Hey! (@hey_stac) December 16, 2016

Creating Compelling Content

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DevRelCon, December 2016

A departure from my usual talks! A talk about writing words

There is also video:

Contempt of PHP

Some thoughts about technology, community and contempt: particularly in the context of the PHP community: https://24daysindecember.net/2016/12/05/contempt-of-php/

Design Patterns for Git

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Velocity, November 2016

Webhooks Provide an Efficient Alternative to API Polling

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The New Stack, October 2016

Nice writeup of my Webhooks talk from OSCON Europe: http://thenewstack.io/wonderful-world-webhooks/

Beyond MySQL

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CodeMotion Berlin, October 2016

A talk I gave at CodeMotion in Berlin, covering some databases other than MySQL (spoiler: Postgres, Redis and CouchDB)

There is also a podcast of the presentation audio https://voicerepublic.com/talks/beyond-mysql