Talks
This page is a list of my speaking engagements. For historical entries, there are also links to materials and related material.
Subversion in a Distributed World - PHPWM User Group, April 2010
I'll give a version of this talk at php|tek in May, its an overview of the current VCS landscape and how to choose the right one for your setting.
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.
PHP Best Practices -TekX, Chicago, 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
Subversion in a Distributed World - TekX, Chicago, 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.
Open Source Your Career - TekX, Chicago, 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!
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Best Practices for Web Service Design - PHP UK, London, 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.
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/lornajane/best-practices-in-web-service-design
Feedback: http://joind.in/1460
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.
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/lornajane/php-and-web-services-perfect-partners
Blog: Supermondays Recap
Video: http://www.supermondays.org/2010/02/23/php-web-services-and-android-development/
Best Practices for Web Service Design -PHPNW User Group, February 2010
This is the same talk as the one later in the month at PHPUK, very happy that I'm able to give it to the PHPNW group as well (they're also a very qualified audience for spotting mistakes in talks and asking the obvious questions!). No slides, look at the PHPUK version for those
Passing the Joel Test in the PHP World - PHPBenelux, Antwerp, January 2010
Delighted to be bringing this talk to the first-ever PHP Benelux conference. I got some great feedback from the last time I gave the talk and hoping it will be better again for this European audience. Also loving being able to catch up with the many friends I have in that part of the world!
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/lornajane/passing-the-joel-test-in-the-php-world-phpbnl10
Blog: PHPBenelux Recap
Working with Web Services - PHPBarcelona, Barcelona, October 2009
This talk is a complete overview of the theory, tools and some tips for dealing with consuming web services of all kinds. It covers service types, data types, and different ways of working with these from PHP, with examples. I had many more attendees in this session than I expected, and it was a fun talk to give.
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/lornajane/working-with-web-services
Blog: PHP Barcelona 2009 Round Up
Working with Web Services - Bradford LUG, October 2009
This is the same talk as the next one at Barcelona - this local Linux User Group graciously agreed to allow me to rehearse my PHP conference talk at them. They were a great crowd and asked some really good questions
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.
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/lornajane/passing-the-joel-test-in-the-php-world
Feedback: http://joind.in/talk/view/612
Blog: PHPNW09: In Conclusion
Video: http://blip.tv/file/get/Phpcodemonkey-PHPNW09Track1Talk1LornaMitchellPassingTheJoelTestIn837.mov
Architecting Web Services - FOWA Tour (Leeds), 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.
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/lornajane/architecting-web-services
Blog: Architecting Web Services FOWA Tour
Linux-Fu for PHP Developers - php|tek, Chicago, 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 :)
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/lornajane/linuxfu-for-php-developers
Blog: php|tek 2009: Quick Round-Up
Using and Understanding the Community - php|tek, Chicago, 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, Chicago, 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.
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/lornajane/practical-php-for-svn-developers
Blog: php|tek 2009: Tutorial Day
Linux-Fu for PHP Developers - PHPGG, Utrecht, 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
Linux-Fu for PHP Developers - Geekup Leeds, February 2009
I got a talk of the same title accepted to php|tek 2009 and used this session to figure out if I can talk and type at the same time, since I was warned by everyone that this was a Bad Idea and I figured if I can do it in lighting talk format, I can do it anywhere! It turns out I can do both and that it really isn't very interesting to watch. Later versions of this talk had no typing, just pre-prepared output shots. No slides, because they were just a title and then I overlaid the terminal window.
Blog: Speaking at GeekUpLeeds
Professional Development for Girl Geeks - Leeds Girl Geek Dinner, August 2008
This was the first Girl Geek Dinner event we held in Leeds and I gave a short talk basically encouraging the women to put themselves forward. I memorably also stood on the gaffa tape holding down all the various leads and ended up stuck to the floor for most of the talk! The slides are a bit thin because much of the talk didn't really need them, read the blog post though.
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/lornajane/profressional-development-for-girl-geeks/
Blog: Professional Development for Girl Geeks
PHP Deployment With Subversion - DPC (Dutch PHP Conference), Amsterdam, June 2008
This was my first conference speaking gig, and I've got mixed feelings about it. I was
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/lornajane/php-deployment-with-svn/.
There is also a video of the demo I did with the Nabaztag - see http://www.flickr.com/photos/lornajane/2592602734/
Blog: DPC Talk Review
PHP Deployment With Subversion - PHP London, June 2008
This was the rehearsal for delivering exactly the same talk a week later at DPC in Amsterdam. I was horribly nervous and have memories of a very hot night and wishing people would stop asking me questions! No slides for this one as I published them after the DPC talk
Blog: Visit to PHP London
Deploying Web Projects with Subversion - Geekup Sheffield, May 2008
Jag Gill started up a Geekup in Sheffield and invited me to speak at the first edition - since I was preparing for speaking at DPC, this worked out well for me! This was lightning talk format as well although Geekup Sheffield has since moved to less strict talk formats.
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/lornajane/deploying-web-projects-with-svn/
Blog: Inaugural Sheffield Geekup
Enterprise Web Development - Geekup Leeds, April 2008
Lightning talk format version of a talk usually given by Ivo Jansch, this was purely to give me some speaking experience. 20:20 style is quite hard to do well!
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/lornajane/enterprise-web-development-358150/
Blog: Geekup Talk
Source Control Saves Lives - BarCamp Leeds, November 2007
This was my first ever speaking attempt. Luckily someone videoed it and I got a lot better after this! The blog post doesn't have the speaking tag, because I didn't know I needed one, and the presentation is uploaded to my blog and not to slideshare, again I guess because I didn't know that was what one did.
Slides: svn_saves_lives.ppt
Blog: BarCampLeeds: Recap
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