This talk is an entirely subjective list of my favourite PHP 5.4 features (I’m giving this talk a few more times this year, and I expect it to change each time as I use more/different 5.4 things)
OAuth: A Question of Trust
A favourite topic for a favourite conference! I love DPC with its super-geeky audience and I enjoyed giving this OAuth talk . I spoke on almost the same topic last year, but this year was high-level and much more geared towards OAuth 2.
http://www.slideshare.net/lornajane/oauth-trust-issues
Web Services Tutorial
Not a totally new tutorial but still a favourite topic! I delivered this to a very technical audience at DPC and really enjoyed it!
I also prepared a bit of example code (look out for some bugs in the rest bits – pull requests very gratefully received!) which you can find on bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/lornajane/web-services-tutorial-code
Best Practice in API Design
Loved giving this talk at PHP Day in Verona – I hadn’t spoken in Italy before and everyone was friendly and super-helpful, Verona is beautiful and I had a really excellent time! My audience were great and asked some good questions which I always enjoy – in theory this is a talk I’ve given before, in practice it comes out different every time as I work with more APIs and bring different experiences (war stories!) to the proceedings.
http://www.slideshare.net/lornajane/best-practice-in-api-design
Git Involved
Feature-length article in php|architect magazine (May 2012 edition) on how to use git and github to get involved in open source. This article uses my own open source project, Joind.in, to show clear examples of the steps to follow and which commands to use to achieve those. This was so much fun to write and I hope will enable many more contributors to open source projects everywhere.
OAuth: A Question of Trust
PHPNW is my local user-group and also one of the nicest and most technically qualified audiences I know. So when I was invited to give an all-new talk at DPC (a notoriously technical conference), I was pleased to be able to bring it to the user group first so they could tell me what I was doing wrong – which they did, very nicely.
If you’re looking for the slides, I have some changes to make and will put them live after I’ve given this talk at DPC in June (mail me if you need them before that!)