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Passing the Joel Test in the PHP World

PHPNW09, October 2009

I’m one of the organisers for this conference, this was the second time we ran the event. The conference is tied to the local user group which I also help to organise, so speaking for this audience was kind of special as is “home turf” for me – and they are a great crowd! The talk is a nice tour of software development best practices, tied in to the thoughts of leading software writing Joel Spolsky, and updated to take account of aspects which apply specifically to web application development.

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Blog: PHPNW09: In Conclusion

Video: http://blip.tv/file/get/Phpcodemonkey-PHPNW09Track1Talk1LornaMitchellPassingTheJoelTestIn837.mov

http://www.slideshare.net/lornajane/passing-the-joel-test-in-the-php-world

Architecting Web Services

FOWA Tour, May 2009

I was delighted to be invited as the local speaker for this FOWA event – Carsonified are known for their great conferences and this one was no exception. It was a different crowd to my usual PHP geeks audience, but they were great all the same.

Blog: Architecting Web Services FOWA Tour

http://www.slideshare.net/lornajane/architecting-web-services

Linux-Fu for PHP Developers

php|tek, May 2009

This was a great talk to be giving, I’m a command-line geek and I enjoyed sharing my tips with the audience. I was worried it would be quite a dry talk – just a list of commands to run – but it was fun to do :)

Blog: php|tek 2009: Quick Round-Up

http://www.slideshare.net/lornajane/linuxfu-for-php-developers

Using and Understanding the Community

php|tek, May 2009

This talk was the brain-child of my copresenter, Stefan Koopmanschap. We talked about the community and different ways to get involved with it, and evangelised about everyone contributing to the whole ecosystem – this talk went over so well we had to deliver it again in a spare slot which came up the next day! There are no slides, we didn’t use any (our slides became our script instead, we had slides until a few days before the talk)

Blog: php|tek 2009: Quick Round-Up

Practical SVN for PHP Developers

php|tek, May 2009

This was a half-day tutorial I delivered jointly with Matthew Weier O’Phinney. My first attempt at a tutorial and I really enjoyed the experience. We covered using and administering SVN and also talked about a bunch of tools. I gave some live demos of a couple of tricky bits of SVN usage – resolving conflicts and merging branches.

Blog: php|tek 2009: Tutorial Day

http://www.slideshare.net/lornajane/practical-php-for-svn-developers

Linux-Fu for PHP Developers

PHPGG, April 2009

I was going to the Ibuildings office in Utrecht to prepare another talk with a colleague, and the dutch PHP user group took the opportunity to ask me to speak to them while I was there. I have a lot of friends in the dutch PHP community, and a talk to polish for php|tek, so I jumped at the chance! No slides, I didn’t upload them until after I’d given this talk at php|tek.

Blog: Speaking at phpGG