Slides

Subversion in a Distributed World

TekX, May 2010
I’ve been looking a lot at distributed and centralised version control solutions lately, I love subversion but I also really want the some of the features that the distributed solutions offer. This talk looks at what the main solutions can provide and some of the factors which will influence the decision of which would work well in a given setting.

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Blog: TEK-X: Conference Report

http://www.slideshare.net/lornajane/subversion-in-a-distributed-world

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Open Source Your Career

TekX, May 2010
This marks a new departure in speaking style for me – a purely opinion piece. I notice that my career is growing and growing on the basis of the people I meet and skills I learn in the community activities I do. I think more people could do the same and I’ll share what I’ve learned – that “giving” to the community can actually result in more gain for the giver! No slides because I hate them and spoke without them.

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Blog: TEK-X: Conference Report

Slides

Open Source Your Career

PHPNW User Group, May 2010
This is the prorotype of a talk I’ll give at php|tek later in the same month, looking at the career rises of community characters and how as individuals we can receive as well as give.
Slides

Subversion in a Distributed World

PHPWM User Group, April 2010
This was an early version of the source control talk I later gave at TEK-X in May, its an overview of the current VCS landscape and how to choose the right one for your setting. See the tek entry for the slides.
Slides

Best Practices for Web Service Design

PHP UK, February 2010
This talk is the sister of my “Working with Web Services” talk – this one deals with the server end of the relationship and covers more architectural topics around designing a good service, how to deliver a useful product to the consumers of the service, and how to create a service that will be stable and maintainable to keep up with the evolving needs of the application. This was my first time speaking at London after 3 years of attending – and it was a great experience.

Audio: http://phpconference.co.uk/uploads/talks/2010/BestPracticesInWebServiceDesign_LornaMitchell.mp3

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Video

PHP for Web Services

SuperMonday, February 2010
The Supermondays group is a regular meetup of various technical people in the North East of England, and I’ll be speaking at their PHP feature night about using PHP with web services – something I do a lot! This is a new crowd for me and also interesting to bring PHP technology ideas to a crowd that is technical without being PHP-specific.

Blog: Supermondays Recap

Video: http://www.supermondays.org/2010/02/23/php-web-services-and-android-development/