More LornaJane

Debugging HTTP

PHPNW 2013, October 2013

This is my fun, geeky talk about Curl, Wireshark, and Charles – a toolkit that enables me to debug even the most peculiar and awkward-to-reach HTTP issues. The slides are fairly minimal, I interleaved each tool with a demonstration of it – actually a pre-recorded video so that I could talk at the same time and not mutter at my laptop which is how a live demo normally works.

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0x0F Ways To Be A Better Developer

PHPNW 2013, October 2013

I co-presented this talk as the opening keynote to PHPNW with my good friend and colleague Ivo Jansch. We tried to pull the things that have made the most difference in our careers, and package up the best of those to share with the crowd. Since the keynote room isn’t big enough for the entire audience, we knew we would need to video relay – so we video relayed in both directions and each presented half the talk in one of the rooms. Crazy? Yes, totally. But lots of fun and I hope we gave at least a few useful points to everyone there!

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Debugging HTTP

pfcongres, September 2013

It was my great pleasure to make it to this Dutch conference, I’ve spoken at other events in NL, but never yet made it along to pfcongres. This conference has a great community feel and my talk got some good questions all the way through. Thanks, folks!

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PHP is Taking Care of Business

Acquia Podcast, September 2013

While at DrupalCon Portland in May, I had the pleasure of meeting up with Jam, the embodiment of Drupal community. We had a great chat about life, the universe, and PHP, and he distilled it down to this podcast. Listen right to the end for a funny outtake :) I have no memory of saying those words but it does seem plausible!

Article and podcast: https://www.acquia.com/resources/podcasts/acquia-podcast-99-php-taking-care-business-meet-lorna-jane

The Future of PHP is … Here Already

Acquia Blog, September 2013

I had fun writing about the “new” features of PHP (everything from PHP 5.3 onwards, so not all that new!) for Acquia’s blog. Acquia are the company behind Drupal, which is just moving to require PHP 5.3 as a minimum, and I really wanted to get the message out to all those devs on PHP that there are some very nice features ahead!)

Article: https://www.acquia.com/blog/php-future-here-already

API Design

Hackference, August 2013

I’ve spoken in a number of different cities, in a number of different countries – and this time, I got to speak in my home town of Birmingham! The hackference was in its first year, and it was a great crowd; I really enjoyed giving my API design talk there and had some good discussions during the rest of the event about the points that I raised.