About
Hi, I'm Mark Story. I'm a developer / illustrator based in Toronto, Canada. While I have a background in art and illustration, I've taken up software development as my career. I enjoy solving problems whether they be visual communication or human-computer interaction.
During the day I work for Sentry as a Staff Engineer. In my spare time I contribute to several open source projects, which you can find on GitHub. I work primarily in PHP, JavaScript and Python, and am learning new languages like Rust and Clojure. Beyond this blog, I share shorter thoughts on Mastodon.
Speaking
I have spoken at several user groups and conferences. Reach out if you'd like me to speak at your event.
- Transitioning a Large Front-End Codebase to TypeScript ft. Priscila Oliveira and Mark Story – JSJ 498
- JavaScript Jabber. Aug 24 2021
- Dependency Injection In CakePHP
- CakeFest 2020. Oct 9 2020
- Safer More Helpful CakePHP
- CakeFest 2019. Nov 9 2019
- Error Tracking
- GPUG User Group. Nov 28, 2018
- CakePHP - The Road Ahead
- CakeFest 2017. Jun 11, 2017
- Future of HTTP In CakePHP
- CakeFest 2016. May 28, 2016
- CakePHP Mistakes Made 2015
- php[world] 2015. November 20, 2015
- New in CakePHP3
- php[world] 2015. November 19, 2015
- FreshBooks - Spaghetti to SOA
- ConFoo 2015. February 20, 2015
- CakePHP - Mistakes Made
- TrueNorthPHP 2014. August 24, 2014
- Profiling & Optimization - Tools, guidelines and techniques
- CakeFest 2014. August 24, 2014
- The Road to CakePHP 3.0
- CakeFest 2014. August 23, 2014
- Profiling & Optimization - Tools, guidelines and techniques
- TrueNorthPHP 2013. November 9, 2013
- Avoiding the OWASP top 10
- PHP Conference Argentina. October 5, 2013
- CakePHP - Good, bad and ugly
- PHP Conference Argentina. October 4, 2013
- Introduction to Twig
- Guelph PHP User group. June 26, 2013
- Mesh13 - Panel discussion "Iterate faster, faster"
- Mesh13. May 26, 2013
- XHProf and Xhgui2
- GTA PHP User group. April 2, 2013
- Introduction to Twig
- TrueNorthPHP 2012. November 2, 2012
- Avoiding the OWASP top 10
- TrueNorthPHP 2012. November 2, 2012
- Simple search with Elastic search
- CakeFest 2012. September 1, 2012
- Making the most of CakePHP 2.2
- CakeFest 2012. September 1, 2012
- Introduction to continous integration
- Guelph PHP User group. November 28, 2011
- PHPUnit and you
- CakeFest 2011. August 31, 2011
- Evented applications with RabbitMQ, Python and CakePHP
- CakeFest 2011. August 31, 2011
- Changes in CakePHP 2.0
- CakeFest 2011. August 31, 2011
- Intro to CakePHP
- GTA PHP User group. July 31, 2011
- Win at life with unit testing
- CakeFest 2010. September 5, 2010
- Plugin development for CakePHP
- CakeFest 2008. December 5, 2008
- Unit testing basics
- CakeFest 2008. December 5, 2008