Presented at WordCamp London, a chance to showcase some important new features and gotchas for those upgrading to modern versions of PHP.
Debugging HTTP
My first time at SmashingConf and I had a fun time talking to a more frontend, but no less technical, audience than my usual crowd. The slides are a bit sparse as a good proportion of this talk is demo/screencast, but here they are:
New Wave PHP
I had the pleasure of speaking at PHPUK again this year, this time with a talk on the best bits of the newer versions of PHP and some tips for upgrading. Since the first step to getting ready for PHP 7 is to get up onto PHP 5.5 or 5.6, I think this was a very relevant topic.
Slides:
Git Branches for Fun and Profit
I gave this talk at Day Camp for Developers, a virtual conference attended by people all over the world. This makes for fun with timezones, but luckily I was allowed to have the first slot so that I was still awake for my talk!
Slides:
Voices of the Elephpant
This is a long-running podcast show by my friend and ex-colleague Cal Evans; in it, he interviews community people about their activities. This is actually my first time on this show, because he’s never managed to grab me in person before.
Podcast: http://voicesoftheelephpant.com/2014/11/25/interview-with-lorna-jane-mitchell/
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 to give. The crowd were great although the big stage was rather daunting!