Kris is a veteran IT business analyst and software engineer who cut her teeth during the first dot-com boom.
She heads up engineering delivery at Canva and has worked for NineMSN, the Commonwealth Bank as well as in a range of startups.
When she’s not messing around with WordPress, she’s probably knitting or giving a tech talk.
Session
My Website is Old Enough to Vote – The Challenges of Maintaining a 20-year-old Website
The Web is an industry that thrives on the new… but what about building sites that last?
In 1996, I used my newly acquired HTML skills to build a fan site for my favourite author.
Twenty years later, the site – roalddahlfans.com – is still alive and kicking.
I’ll trace the development of the site over the years, which mirrors both my own career journey as a developer and the trajectory of the web as a whole.
I’ll also talk about the challenges I faced during my recent 6-month project to convert the whole site – nearly 1500 pages – to WordPress, dragging it into the 21st century at last.