More LornaJane

Tool Up Your LAMP Stack

Agile on the Beach, September, 2011

Presentation written for Agile on the Beach in Falmouth, showcasing many of the auxiliary tools to use around your PHP stack (LAMP: Linux Apache MySQL PHP). This was a new topic and a new crowd for me but I got some great questions and really enjoyed the session.

The video is available on vimeo, slides are below:

http://www.slideshare.net/lornajane/tool-up-your-lamp-stack

PHP on the Command Line

.net magazine website, September 2011

I pitched this article to the netmag guys after overhearing a couple of developers at DIBI saying that PHP was only for the web and not for the CLI. I like and use the PHP command line tools often, so I wanted to share some tips.

http://www.netmagazine.com/tutorials/how-use-php-command-line

Open Source Your Career

Josetteorama, September 2011

An article version of my “open source your career” talk – speaking the unspoken truth that when you give time to open source, you reap the rewards in your own professional growth and development. I was delighted to write for Josetteorama, and to share these ideas in another format.

http://www.josetteorama.com/uncategorized/open-source-your-career/

Taking PHP To The Next Level

Sitepoint Podcast, September 2011

I’m the guest on this week’s Sitepoint podcast, I get to talk about my new book, PHP in general, open source, conferences, and awards – all in all it’s a half-hour of fun and chatter!

Podcast (with full transcript): http://www.sitepoint.com/podcast-129-taking-php-to-the-next-level-with-lorna-mitchell/

Debunking PHP’s Bad Reputation

.net Magazine Website, September 2011

This is a re-post of the article I wrote earlier in the year (which was called “The State of PHP” the first time around, I hasten to add. They published this on their site as Debunking PHP’s Bad Reputation

Community Corner: Building A New Joind.in API

php|architect, August 2011

As part of the regular column I share with a bunch of other user group people, this month I’m published again, this time telling the story of how the wider community have nudged me into building a much better API for Joind.In that I would have come up with on my own. It’s subscription content, but well worth a read see this month’s full contents here