Talks

1. Deploy your Flask or Django app to AWS Lambda with Zappa

   An introduction to serverless deployments on AWS + Lambda + API Gateway, with Flask or Django, and Zappa

   2017 – Pycon Canada (Montreal)

2. Intro to Highly Available web apps on AWS

   An app-platform-agnostic overview of building applications that can withstand whole data center failures without going down, with a focus on Amazon Web Services EC2 and related infrastructure

   2017 – Confoo (Montreal)

3. Advanced Virtualmachining with Vagrant

   Advanced virtual machine management for teams, with Vagrant, including: basic VM-to-production philosophy, bootstrapping for everyone, managed Vagrantfile, tricks for multiple VMs, caching, packaging, and other Vagrant tips

   2017 – Confoo (Montreal)

4. Inspect HTTP(S) with Your Own Man-in-the-Middle Non-Attacks

   How MitM attacks work, using a proxy to intercept, certificate authority trust chains, Charles and mitmproxy

   2015 – ConFoo (Montréal)

5. An Introduction to Amazon Web Services

   A high level overview of Amazon Web Services (AWS), with a focus on EC2, and other parts specifically relevant to deploying web apps

   2015 – ConFoo (Montréal)

   2014 – True North PHP (Toronto)

   2014 – Madison PHP (Madison, WI)

6. Distributed Teams, Distributed Tools, Distributed Apps (Opening Keynote)

   A fun talk about how we manage our distributed/remote team, some of the tools we use to do so, and how some of those principles allow us to build distributed apps

   2013 – True North PHP (Toronto)

7. Measure everything with statsd and graphite

   An introduction to realtime monitoring, aggregation, and graphing, for web apps

   2013 – ConFoo (Montréal)

8. Virtualize your development

   Building virtual development environments with Vagrant, OpenVPN, and more

   2012 – ConFoo (Montréal)

9. Fifty tips, tricks and tools in one talk

   A rapid-fire overview of 50 tools and tricks I use all the time

   2011 – ConFoo (Montréal)

10. Webshell: smart, scripted HTTP

    An overview and spcific examples of how to use Webshell

    2011 – ConFoo (Montréal)

11. Interfacing with Twitter

    An introduction to Twitter’s rich API, and a primer on how to interact with it, in PHP

    2010 – ConFoo (Montréal)

12. Undercover PHP

    Supporting PHP with non-web tools such as cron, gearman, and supervisord

    2010 – ConFoo (Montréal)

13. PHP: The Good Parts

    a tutorial on our favourite parts of PHP (with Chris Shiflett)

    2009 Jul – OSCON (San Jose, California)

14. Out with Regex, In with Tokens

    An introduction to lexing and using tokens in PHP

    2009 – php|tek (Chicago)

    2009 – Code Works (Atlanta)

    2009 – Code Works (Miami)

    2009 – Code Works (Washington D.C.)

    2009 – Code Works (Brooklyn)

15. Stupid Browser Tricks

    Working with Firebug and Selenium IDE

    2009 – PHP Québec (conference, Montréal)

    2009 – Code Works (Atlanta)

    2009 – Code Works (Miami)

    2009 – Code Works (Washington D.C.)

    2009 – Code Works (Brooklyn)

16. PHP Phone Home

    VOIP integration with PHP via Asterisk

    2007 – Vancouver PHP Conference

    2007 – PHP Québec (meeting, Montréal)