Interview with me and some googlers for Google Developer Live – the Women Techmakers series. We talk about my career and background, technology, open source, craft, books and life in general.
Manipulating HTTP with Charles Proxy
A new post on techportal, covering some of my favourite Charles tips and tricks, from the very beginning of the story just observing the traffic to proxying a mobile device through Charles and altering the requests as they come through. Packed full of screenshots and practical examples.
Link: http://techportal.inviqa.com/2013/03/05/manipulating-http-with-charles-proxy
PHP 5.4
Part of Zend’s Webinar series, this is my “PHP 5.4 Features You Will Actually Use” talk. You can find the recording from this session (had some good questions as well as the talk) here: http://www.zend.com/en/resources/webinars/php?#PHP54
REST for Web Developers
I wrote this new talk for my local user group, LeedsPHP, when they invited me as a speaker for their monthly meeting.
7 Steps to Better APIs
Subtitled “Design successful RESTful APIs”, this article was a blast to write, although blatantly there are 8 tips included in the article :) It was published in the March 2013 issue of netmagazine, issue 238, and they absolutely blew my mind by including it on the front page :)
You can buy individual digital issues for 4.99 GBP if anyone is interested.
PHP 5.4
This relatively new publication has had some great content so far, and approached me to write about the newest version of PHP, 5.4. I’ve been speaking on this topic already so I had plenty of examples to share and was delighted to get involved.
Web and PHP Magazine is a free PDF download, you want Issue 9

