Laura Thomson

Laura Thomson
Senior Software Engineer, Mozilla Corporation

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Laura Thomson is an Engineering Manager at Mozilla Corporation, where she looks after the Webtools group, 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 world wide, including OSCON.

Sessions

1:40pm Wednesday, 07/18/2012
I Can't Believe You Still Do It That Way:12 Years of PHP Best Practice Talks revisited
PHP
 Location: E144
Tags: php, scalability, performance, security, best_practices
Laura Thomson (Mozilla Corporation), Luke Welling ([Redacted])
Average rating: ***..
(3.78, 9 ratings)
For the last twelve years we've been giving conference talks and writing books about how to develop for the web in PHP. Over that time we've made a bunch of recommendations: some still hold true, and some things have changed quite a bit since 2000. We'll talk about how the landscape's changed, and how and when you should change the way you work. Read more.
1:40pm Thursday, 07/19/2012
Everything you ever wanted to know about deployment but were afraid to ask
Tools and Techniques
 Location: E147
Tags: web_development, deployment, programming, devops
Laura Thomson (Mozilla Corporation)
Average rating: ****.
(4.25, 12 ratings)
Web developers dream of continuous deployment: new code in production without a hitch. In this talk I'll cover the full story from building deployable code through working out a build and release process through continuous integration, automation, and continuous deployment. We'll also look at deployment velocity and why CD might not be for you. Read more.

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