Slides

Open Source Your Career

OggCamp, August 2011
Having spoken at the last two years of oggcamp, I was absolutely delighted to get an invitation for their scheduled track and speak on their main stage this year. This is the event where I learn things I never knew I needed to know, and this year was no exception!

(no slides, because I speak without them)

Video: https://blip.tv/episode/5493784

Slides

Going Freelance

PHPNW, August 2011
For this year’s lightning talks night I presented a fast brain-dump on everything I now know about being freelance – a year after making the leap.

Article

PHP Features: Data structures in PHP

.net Magazine, June 2011
Super-excited to be published again in netmag, they didn’t hold back from the geeky topics when they agreed to let me write about the datastructures we have available in PHP. This article covers a bit about SPL and some information (plus real examples of course) about some of the structures PHP gives us in the SPL library. You can order back issues of this magazine – it’s issue 217
Video

Understanding Distributed Source Control

DIBI, June 2011
Did someone say “technical conference” and “north east” in the same sentence? I am delighted to be speaking at this 2-track designer/developer conference at the Sage in Newcastle in June.

Video: http://vimeo.com/27770106

http://www.slideshare.net/lornajane/understanding-distributed-source-control

Slides

Teach A Man To Fish

php|tek, May 2011
Excited to be bringing a favourite talk to a favourite conference! I’ve spoken at php|tek for the last couple of years and loved the experience every time. This talk is about team coaching and how to raise your game, and the game of people around you, with some effort and a little investment.

Feedback:

http://www.slideshare.net/lornajane/coaching-development-teams-teach-a-man-to-fish

Slides

Best Practice in Web Service Design

php|tek, May 2011
I’ve given this talk before, but I’ve learned so much since then that I suspect a full rewrite may be in order! Talking about the human side of APIs, no code, no data formats, just good clean direction on how to create an API that is robust, secure, delightful to use and painless to maintain. This session could be retitled “10 thing I wish other people had known about designing a web service before I was forced to use what they made” :)

Feedback:

http://www.slideshare.net/lornajane/best-practice-in-web-service-design