Publications

This is a list of some of my talks & articles hosted elsewhere:

• My NET-A-PORTER TECHNICAL BLOG entries (2013–2014)

  These are my contributions to the NET-A-PORTER TECHNICAL BLOG. Including, but not limited to, a shell & regexp primer, maximising cache hit rates for REST APIs, and Akka musings.

• Delighting your users with SBJson 4 (2013)

  This is my first Pecha Kucha style talk, made at NSLondon meetup. The sound is not great, and one of my slides is a bit misleading. Nevertheless I have a special fondness for this one. It was the first time someone I didn't know contacted me to ask me to give a talk.

• Overcoming U-turns and Dead Ends: Lessons of using Scala, Akka & Spray on Heroku (2013)

  I presented this "experience talk" at Scala eXchange 2013 with Sam Dean. (I'm afraid you have to log in to view the video.) It's a mish-mash of stuff we learnt while building the backend of The Netbook—NET-A-PORTER's social network offering.

• Testing C with Libtap (2006)

  I gave a talk at YAPC::NA 2005 on this topic, and a member of the audience approached me to write it up as an article for ONLamp magazine. This was the result. (Sadly it is no longer online at the original URL, but the WayBackMachine has my back!)

• Creating HTML with M4 (2002)

  A long, long time ago I used make and cpp to maintain my website. Later I upgraded to m4. I wrote an article on the subject, and Linux Magazine published it.