About me
I’m a Senior Software Engineer at Mozilla Corporation, and a former open source consultant, university lecturer, freelance developer, management consultant, PhD student, and computer book author (”PHP and MySQL Web Development”) from Melbourne, Australia. I live in Maryland, USA. I have too many animals. I love to travel and I love coming home again. I am an open source evangelist. I am Australian so I like to talk and argue about the above topics over a few beers.
Evan:
One question… are you spoken for?
Thanks for all you have done for FOSS.
15 May 2008, 1:00 pmadmin:
Yes, sorry
I’m married to Luke Welling.
15 May 2008, 1:27 pmJohn Zens:
Hi Laura,
I am a technical recruiter with Allen Partners. I came across your LinkedIn profile, clicked over to your blog, and thought that you probably know a ton of people. I am currently conducting a search on behalf of a dynamic company looking for top talent. They offer the opportunity for a talented PHP developer to face intriguing challenges daily and the opportunity to grow and advance. If you know anyone who you think would be good to talk to, I would appreciate you shooting me over an e-mail: john@allen-partners.com. Thank you in advance for thinking about it.
31 July 2008, 12:29 pmRadhakrishna:
Hi,
I have a problem in integrating tomcat my sql and php. Could you please provide me with the step by step instructions with the compatible versions above mentioned three. Also, I have explored many sites on the same topic. But different sites have different opinions on this. Could you please explain me with the actual procedure including the setting of environment variables etc.?
Regards
9 August 2008, 11:39 amRadhakrishna
Paula Rizzuto:
Hello. Was just thinking about you guys. Haven’t seen you in ages. I knew you had a blog somewhere, and I must say, I was not surprised to find it right at the TOP of my Google! It connects through to your old blog location though, so I had to click through.
Anyway - I’ll get on with reading. Catch you later in the year, maybe?
1 September 2008, 12:08 amGerard Vignes:
I totally enjoyed the podcast made by Luke Welling and yourself on PHP and MySQL Web Development for OnOpen Source. I especially loved the comments about frameworks and framework developers. I also loved the comments about Ruby on Rails.
I would really like to know, how do you feel about Python? If you had included Python in the comparison of PHP and Ruby, what would you say?
Thanks!
G
26 September 2008, 9:48 pmadmin:
Hey Gerard! I am merely a Padewan on the path of Python, but I really do like it. It feels like Ruby’s older brother to me, in the good ways.
28 September 2008, 3:59 pmGerard Vignes:
Thanks!
6 October 2008, 4:07 pmJared:
Hi Laura,
I saw your video about SQL on Youtube. I want to get into web developement. Im a newbie who has taken a basic Web design course that focused on building a site in Dreamweaver. There seem to be various codes and programming technologies. What would be the next logical step? I dont really want to go back to university as I’ve spent half of my life there! Any advice or information would be greatly appretiated.
Merry Christmas!
Jared (Tokyo)
7 December 2008, 11:50 pmSandeep:
Hi Laura,
Were you teaching Masters students at RMIT? if yes, then i must say you are a great lecturer. i was your sudent
18 December 2008, 2:52 pmGreg:
Hi Laura,
I was just wondering which version of PHP and MySQL your book PHP and MySQL Web Development, 4th edition covers?
Thank you,
-Greg
17 December 2009, 10:15 amMet:
Hey laura, I’m from turkey and working as webdeveloper. I bought a book which was written by you PHP and MySQL Web Development”) I checked whole subject of the book I really liked it and I’m sure I will be good at php when I read it thank you for this nice book
21 December 2009, 12:40 pm