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Laura Thomson
Senior Software Engineer, Mozilla Corporation

Laura Thomson is a Senior Software Engineer at Mozilla Corporation on the web team, after spending much of the previous decade as a consultant and trainer on various Open Source technologies.

Laura is the co-author of “PHP and MySQL Web Development” and “MySQL Tutorial”. She is a veteran speaker at Open Source conferences worldwide.

Sessions

1:45pm Wednesday, 07/23/2008

Write Beautiful Code (in PHP)

PHP
Location: Portland 251

Laura Thomson (Mozilla Corporation)

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(3.82, 11 ratings)

In this talk, Laura Thomson will present guidelines for writing, not just maintainable, but beautiful code. Code that is simple, robust and error resistant, secure, scalable and performant, and easy to produce in a reasonable time frame. Read more.