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Tools for Better PHP

php|tek 2013, May 2013
This talk aimed to show off some of the tools that support my PHP process, and that I hope will be helpful to anyone who sees the presentation. This includes, but is in no way limited to:

  • PHP Code Sniffer
  • PHP Documentor 2
  • Phing
  • Jenkins
  • Gearman
  • Supervisord

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Upgrading PHP

php|tek 2013
PHP gets better and better all the time, 5.4 and 5.5 have really impressive features – but also improved security and performance. This presentation aimed to combine tastes of the features that were added in PHP 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5 – but to combine these promises of a better life with practical advice on how to get from your current platform (whatever it is!) and catch up with the good stuff.

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PS PHP 5.2 has been end of life for some years. Please upgrade!

Butterfly

Consuming REST with PHP and Streams

Josetteorama, May 2013
I had the privilege of being asked to write for Josetteorama recently, and here is my article now published there: http://www.josetteorama.com/consuming-rest-with-php-and-streams-2/. The idea is to give some practical examples of using streams, which I think are a hugely under-appreciated feature of PHP. You can handle data piecewise, add filters as you please, and it has all the options you’ll ever need (and probably a few you won’t!) for working with HTTP.
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Debugging HTTP

WhiskyWeb, April 2013
This talk covers some of the tools I use when I’m working with HTTP: browser tools, curl, Wireshark and Charles. I walked through some examples, mostly using pre-recorded screencasts, and also showed a live demo proxying an android phone through Charles on my laptop and rewriting the requests it makes.


Slides: http://web.lornajane.net/http-debugging-publish.html

Slides

REST for Web Developers

WhiskyWeb, April 2013
Last-minute stand-in session for a missing speaker at WhiskyWeb (since I was there anyway). The audience asked some really good questions during the talk and I almost enjoyed myself!