More LornaJane

The PHP 5.4 Features You Will Actually Use

ZendCon 2012, October 2012

The fourth and final outing for this PHP 5.4 talk that I’ve been giving in various guises for a few months! The ZendCon audience were intelligent and engaged (and the room was busy again!), and this was possibly the most fun I’ve ever had listing programming language features aloud :)

Design and Build Your API

ZendCon 2012, October 2012

Half-day workshop at ZendCon (we were sold out, it was busy!), covering all kinds of HTTP theory and practical advice, to enable attendees to build their own APIs. It included some hands-on workshops, the HTTP cards game, and some great questions and examples from the audience. Main topics were around the theory of a good API, some design tips, different kinds of API and data formats, and how to effectively deliver and support an API once built.

Git, Github and Open Source

Confident Coding, October 2012

Another talk from the same Confident Coding event, where my favourite question was: “can you please explain git rebase *without* the use of complicated diagrams?” :) Lots of people were new to git, open source, or both so it was such a fun talk to give – to welcome lots of female developers into my world!

SSH and not FTP

Confident Coding, October 2012

This was a new talk I put together for the Confident Coding event in San Francisco, covering some of those mysterious things like public keys, aliases, dealing with multiple keys and transferring files using SCP and SFTP. With a predominantly female audience, I got some great questions along the way and had a fabulous time!

Build Your API

FOWA, October 2012

Full-day workshop at FOWA London, covering the theory of building an API … and then challenging my attendees to actually build their own. This was a fun, packed day but seeing the attendees demo at the end of the day made it all worthwhile. The day included the HTTP status cards game, some great questions on scaling APIs on a variety of technology platforms, and of course a good lunch with the attendees of the other tutorials.

Bitestats: From API to PDF

FOWA, October 2012

My first time speaking at Future of Web Apps – the London edition, where I gave an overview of the system behind BiteStats.com and talked about each of the magic ingredients that go to make this system work.

(slides when I figure out how to embed avalanche slides)