Lorna Mitchell 
@lornajaneLorna is an independent PHP consultant based in Leeds, UK. She leads the joind.in open source project, which provides a platform for real-time, public feedback at community events. She is an experienced conference speaker, and has spoken at technical events across Europe and beyond, predominantly on technical topics such as PHP and APIs, but also on topics around business, projects and open source. She regularly delivers technical training sessions and is also active as a mentor with PHPWomen.org. Author of the book PHP Master from Sitepoint, Lorna loves to write and is regularly published at a number of outlets including netmagazine and of course her own blog lornajane.net.
PHP 5.4 Features You Will Actually Use 
The PHP 5.4 release brought with it the usual excellent selection of entries in the changelog – but which of those will you be using in your real applications this year? This talk looks at a selection of the additions that have arrived with PHP 5.4, examining each one in turn and showing examples of using it.
I’ll talk about which features will be useful and to whom, and show off some tricks that you might not have seen if you haven’t had chance to play with it in detail. The headline news includes support for traits and a built in webserver, but there are plenty of other changes besides. For a round-up of these features and a discussion of who will be using them and when, this sessions is for you. Recommended for PHP developers, architects and technical managers, the aim is to have a hands-on demonstration of the best on offer and where it might fit in to your existing ecosystem.
http://blip.tv/play/h75rg4nBBQA.html?p=1
