Publications

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

• My Net-a-Porter Techblog entries (2013–2014)

  I wrote a few entries on the Net-a-Porter tech blog in my various roles there. (Details about my roles on my linkedin profile.)

• 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, but I have a special fondness for this one as it's the first time I've been invited to speak.

• 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 talked at YAPC::NA 2005 (I believe) on this topic and was approached by a member of the audience to write it up as an article for ONLamp magazine. This is the result.

• 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 ended up writing an article on the subject, and this was published in Linux Magazine.