Slides

Working With Web Services

FrOSCon, August 2010
This is one of my favourite talks, written for PHP Barcelona last year, about how to consume web services from PHP. It covers data formats, different ways of handling HTTP, the different service formats we’re likely to encounter and also gives some tips on troubleshooting … all in the space of an hour!

Blog: http://lornajane.net/posts/2010/Working-with-Web-Services-Froscon-2010

http://www.slideshare.net/lornajane/working-with-webservices-5031166

Article

Object Oriented PHP Articles

Think Vitamin: Carsonified Blog
I was delighted to be invited to by Think Vitamin to become a regular staff writer for the site. We started out with a series of articles about Object Oriented PHP, beginning with the basics and working through to some quite advanced concepts. There were five posts, these all went offline in mid 2012. I have reposted some of these on my blog, but get in touch if you want/need the others.

Getting Started with OOP and PHP5
Getting Started with OOP and PHP5: Part 2
9 Magic Methods for PHP
Exception Handling in PHP 5 (currently unavailable)
OOP in PHP: Finishing Touches (currently unavailable)

Article

TechPortal – Inviqa Developer Portal

TechPortal
This site is the Inviqa developer portal site. I’ve written for it since its launch when it was owned by Ibuildings (the contributors are mostly employees), in fact its very first article was mine. Since then I have become its Editor-in-Chief and edit the tutorials more often than write them. The site is a great source of good quality content however!

Getting Started with Memcached
New Memcached Extension for PHP
Using PHP Code Sniffer
Web Services for PHP Developers

Video

Community RoundTable

TekX, May 2010
Not a talk but a video of a panel I sat on about community and user groups. Fabulous session with some serious PHP User Group talent in the room (both on the stage and off it!), some great discussion. If I seem quiet, it’s because I had just given another talk and I was still slightly drained from that (if you’ve ever seen or heard “open source your career”, you’ll know why!).

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Video: http://blog.calevans.com/2010/08/06/php-community-and-user-groups/

Slides

PHP Best Practices

TekX, May 2010
This is a half-day tutorial session, presented with Matthew Weier O’Phinney (Project Lead at Zend Framework), covering the best tools, practices, and approaches for working with PHP today. I’m super-excited about this because I love to present with Matthew and because I look forward to sharing my working experiences on the various topics.

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Blog: TEK-X: Conference Report