About LornaJane
Hi, I’m Lorna, or when I'm online "lornajane". This is my personal site and since I write on a wide variety of subjects, I should probably qualify my main personalities here.
I’m based in Leeds, UK, working for Ibuildings as a developer, consultant and trainer. My job takes me travelling and allows me to meet all sorts of people, and I learn something new every day, which is great! Ibuildings are "The PHP Professionals" so I'm a PHP specialist although I love most kinds of technologies including databases and subversion (perhaps I shouldn't admit to this) - and at university I gained a Masters Degree in Electronic Engineering. I'm deeply involved with the PHPWomen group which has been more interesting and rewarding than I can express effectively.
I’m a very keen netball player having represented my county and region when I was younger. I’m now playing with Shipley Netball and loving it. I play goal shooter, in case anyone is interested, and yes, I’m tall (5’11” or 178 cm).
The other categories are a bit more homey, and that's because I'm a home bird at heart. There are some recipes here - not many but they provoke a large proportion of my traffic which is interesting. "Craft" covers my main creative love which is crochet, but I also knit, sew and am influenced by many other crafts so you'll find all sorts of things in there.
That’s me, welcome and have a look around. If you’d like to contact me directly then you can email me on lornajane@lornajane.net
Comments
Fri, 04.07.2008 07:06
This is a good place to know about more & more women speaker s: hers i am: http://geekspeakr.com/speaker/sree
Wed, 02.07.2008 22:10
LinuxJedi: I have a niece to knit for, no need to go to the great lengths of breeding grandchildren :)
Wed, 02.07.2008 19:58
Awww….That is really cute. Your stuff just gets better an d better :) Although I have visions of you in a rocking c hair in 60 years time knitting away embarrassing clothes for all you grandkids :)
Wed, 02.07.2008 14:28
Lorna, If you’re getting into hooks and coding standards yo u might want to have a look at triggering Greg Sherwood’s ph p codesniffer when somebody attempts to check in changes. http://url.ie/hq6 is a redirect to his blog posting about d oing this.
Wed, 02.07.2008 13:16
Geoff: For line-endings the SVN property is really useful, but for more complex requirements, like the ones Ken mention ed, a hook is more functional I think. I must admit to usua lly specifying whitespace and line endings in coding standar ds and then shouting at people that do it wrong … it [...]
Wed, 02.07.2008 12:57
Have you tried using the svn:eol-style property? This seems more appropriate than using pre-commit hooks.
Wed, 02.07.2008 12:11
Ken: Hello, thanks for dropping by and upstaging me with suc h an excellent tip :) I’ve also seen some nice pre-commit h ooks for SVN that cleans up this kind of badness before the files go near the repo.
Wed, 02.07.2008 01:23
Hi Lorna. Cool tip but I think I can go one better! I ha ve the following line in my ~/.vim/ftplugin/php.vim file autocmd BufWritePre *.php :%s/\s\+$//e This removes all t railing spaces in a .php file prior to writing it to disk an d means I can concentrate on work rather that using ma [...]
Tue, 01.07.2008 22:09
Nik: I can’t imagine what a wsdl would look like pasted into here so I’ve put it in a separate file for you, I’ve includ ed another example soap function so you can see the wsdl wit h two functions and I hope this will give you the help you n eed. The wsdl is at http://web.lornajane.net/sugar_so [...]