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An introduction to serverless deployments on AWS + Lambda + API Gateway, with Flask or Django, and Zappa
2017 – Pycon Canada (Montreal)
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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)
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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)
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How MitM attacks work, using a proxy to intercept, certificate authority trust chains, Charles and mitmproxy
2015 – ConFoo (Montréal)
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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)
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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)
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An introduction to realtime monitoring, aggregation, and graphing, for web apps
2013 – ConFoo (Montréal)
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Building virtual development environments with Vagrant, OpenVPN, and more
2012 – ConFoo (Montréal)
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A rapid-fire overview of 50 tools and tricks I use all the time
2011 – ConFoo (Montréal)
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An overview and spcific examples of how to use Webshell
2011 – ConFoo (Montréal)
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An introduction to Twitter’s rich API, and a primer on how to interact with it, in PHP
2010 – ConFoo (Montréal)
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Supporting PHP with non-web tools such as cron, gearman, and supervisord
2010 – ConFoo (Montréal)
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a tutorial on our favourite parts of PHP (with Chris Shiflett)
2009 Jul – OSCON (San Jose, California)
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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)
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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)
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PHP Phone Home
VOIP integration with PHP via Asterisk
2007 – Vancouver PHP Conference
2007 – PHP Québec (meeting, Montréal)