Bio
Brian Retterer is a developer advocate at Okta, a Silicon Valley cloud-based identity service. He is focused on serving the PHP community, and always excited to represent and educate developers, especially in the Midwest. From his home base in Ohio, you can often find him advocating for best practices in account security and RESTful API design. With his 13+ years of experience in working with PHP, he has experienced the growing pains and exciting changes that PHP has gone through. You can follow Brian on Twitter at @bretterer
My Talks
Analyzing the World as a Self Taught Programmer
In the programming world, it can sometimes be difficult to find work when you didn't get a degree in the field. As a trained sound designer, but self taught programmer, I sometimes feel like an "im...
MFA, U2F, FIDO, OH My!
There are so many different acronymous out there for authentication. What do they all mean? Do you need them for your application? Are you actually secure without them? This talk explores all the d...
What's the Password? There is no Password!
Passwords Suck. I think everyone can get around that statement. This talk is all about the history of passwords and how we can go beyond using them to confirm our identity to sites using more pract...
WordPress Theming, Going Beyond the Dashboard
So, you have mastered the art of tweaking a theme from the dashboard customizer. Congratulations! Take it to the next level now with child theming. In this talk, I will go over some of the helpful...