LornaJane

About LornaJane


I'm Lorna "lornajane" Mitchell, PHP developer, speaker and blogger, and this is my personal site. I work for Ibuildings in London but live and work from my home in Leeds, Yorkshire. I'm a community evangelist and can often be seen at local events like GeekUp, BarCamp, and the Girl Geek Dinners, as well as the PHPNW user group in Manchester which I help to organise along with its annual conference. I'm also deeply involved with phpwomen.org, which has been challenging, rewarding, and huge fun in equal quantities. With a master's degree in Electronic Engineering I'm an incurable geek and love all kinds of technology, from soldering hardware to low-level programming, to gadgets.

There are a few other things that get mentioned on this blog, related to my other interests.
  • I love to craft, crochet especially but pretty much anything else and ideally without a pattern, you'll see many of my creations appear here

  • I play netball (if you don't know what this is, ask youtube. 14 women with a ball in a confined space is the short version), so I'm an athlete and this is my main hobby. Its women-only and I love the contrast between geekery and physical exertion and lots of female friends of different ages and backgrounds

  • There are some quite homely posts on this site too - I love to cook and I'm currently in the middle of a long-term house renovation project, so I write about those as well


To reach me directly, use one of the options from the contact page.
LornaJane
2009-06-17

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LornaJane about SugarCRM SOAP Data Types
Sat, 06.02.2010 15:10
Steve: I work full time and don’t take any additional contracts outside of that however my employers Ibuildings may be interested, and so we could work together that way? My contact details are on my about page if you want to get in touch, just let me know :)
steve deguzman about SugarCRM SOAP Data Types
Sat, 06.02.2010 11:30
do you take any clients for any sugar dev
berry__ about PHPBenelux: Recap
Fri, 05.02.2010 08:31
It was good fun seeing you again and I must say that your talk was very good. I certainly enjoyed talking to you and hope to see you at phpbnl11 (or pfc10, of course ;))!
Brenton about Wordpress Automatic Update Asking for FTP
Tue, 02.02.2010 03:03
Excellent, this plugin is PERFECT for our situation. We install WP into a jailcell from the customer and it has all the correct permissions for them to upload into the right areas but the wp-content folder isn’t owned by apache. The yoast fix-plugin-update plugin overlooks the ownership on the [...]
seo china about SugarCRM Custom Fields
Mon, 01.02.2010 10:10
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LornaJane about PHP 5.3 Feature: Late Static Binding
Sat, 30.01.2010 11:05
Ted: I must confess I agree but breaking backwards compatibility is very unhelpful so I can understand why it was implemented in this way
berry__ about New Office
Fri, 29.01.2010 14:04
There is no mouse or other pointer device on your desktop. You must be an Opera user indeed :)
Ted Wood about PHP 5.3 Feature: Late Static Binding
Fri, 29.01.2010 09:48
I would have preferred they reassign self:: to refer to the current class, and then allow parent:: to refer to the parent class. It gives better context about what you’re referring to. The keyword static:: doesn’t give any context at all. I find that awkward.
Jordan Walker about Stopping CodeIgniter from Escaping SQL
Thu, 28.01.2010 21:47
I am truly glad you found the help you needed from the community. Wish you the best on your project.