Slides for most of the technical and freelancing talks I have given in the past are available below. If you find the talks useful and are in a financial position to do so, please consider making a donation to Asthma UK or Diabetes UK, two charities who work to raise awareness of conditions affecting people close to me.
Please get in touch if you would like me to give one of these talks at your company, conference or user group, or if you would like me to prepare a talk on another subject related to technology or freelancing.
If you are interested in ancient history, you may also enjoy some of my non-technical talks.
- Q&A on being a freelancer – Barcamp Manchester, July 2022
- Q&A on being a freelancer – University of Manchester, October 2021
- Linux Backups – Manchester Linux Users Group, March 2021
- Q&A on being a freelancer – University of Manchester, November 2020
- IPv6: A hosting and developer perspective – NetMcr, October 2020
- Life as a coin-operated monkey (25 minute version) – NetMcr, February 2020
- Life as a coin-operated monkey (25 minute version) – Oggcamp, October 2019
- Why PHP is great (and all other languages suck) – Oggcamp, October 2019
- Life as a coin-operated monkey (45 minute version) – PHP North West, June 2017
- Life as a coin-operated monkey (45 minute version) – FLOSS UK, March 2017 (winner of Best Speaker award)
- Lessons learned from Enigma – Manchester InfoSec, April 2017
- Using a Raspberry Pi as a local DNS resolver – FLOSS UK, March 2017
- Building Software and Documentation with GNU Make – Manchester Linux Users Group, February 2017
- Configuration Management with Ansible and Git – North West Drupal User Group, January 2017
- Low Cost Computing with Linux – Barcamp Manchester, September 2016
- Configuration Management with Ansible and Git – Barcamp Manchester, September 2016
- Low Cost Computing with Linux – Manchester Linux Users Group, May 2016
- Why PHP is great (and all other languages suck) – FLOSS UK, March 2016
- Configuration Management with Ansible and Git – FLOSS UK, March 2016
- Not just Linux: BSD, Solaris et al. – Manchester Linux Users Group, July 2015
- Introduction to Puppet – Manchester Linux Users Group, June 2014
- Introduction to Vagrant – Manchester Linux Users Group, November 2013
- Debian Packaging – Manchester Linux Users Group, January 2013
- Verifying Downloads – Manchester Linux Users Group, March 2012
- Adventures with OpenVPN – Manchester Linux Users Group, April 2008
Feedback from my talks include:
A five minute trashing of almost every programming language you’ve heard of in favour of PHP raised the most laughs of the day!
Really enjoyed the evening. […] fascinating talk
Good content and very well delivered too, thanks for your efforts
Paul was able to convey how Ansible works
Two [talks] stand out as particularly memorable: Paul Waring’s defence of PHP
It was definitely memorable. You should do more talks on this subject.
You are more than welcome to talk again! Thanks again
Paul’s talk is going down very, very well. Excellently given, and this is fantastic advice for everyone in a technical role, considering contracting.
Excellent talk. Lots of useful info.
Paul's talk is going down very, very well. Excellently given, and this is fantastic advice for everyone in a technical role, considering contracting. #NetMcr pic.twitter.com/9uD26Q1TuY
— NetMcr (@net_mcr) February 13, 2020
Excellent talk. Lots of useful info. You should totally have testimonials on your site.
— Terence Eden (@edent) October 20, 2019
Sorry my adaptor wasn't the right size!
Life as a coin-operated monkey – useful and accessible talk from @pwaring #oggcamp #oggcamp19 pic.twitter.com/lpdsVYtOuD
— Rachel Morgan-Trimmer (@SparkleClass) October 20, 2019
Really enjoyed @pwaring's lightning talk on PHP ("all other languages suck!") at http://t.co/Fgs6rTgpcT.
— David "Black Lives Matter" JONES (@drjtwit) June 23, 2015