iterator_to_array() before. I’m sure they weren’t alone and since I just typed it again, I thought I’d share a snippet.
Tapfish is a game where you can buy, raise and sell fish – like a tamagotchi, all grown up and moved to the smartphone platform (and prettier!) You can play quite a bit of the game without paying for anything – so much in fact that I got quite into it. When you consider that I’ve played daily for 6 weeks, 10 quid for the add-ons that will let me play more of the game seems reasonable. Continue reading
When browsing the moo.com site (it is usually best to hide all payment cards out of reach before doing this!) I had seen the postcards that they make and decided this would be a great way to send a small selection of photos to a few people. Once we got the “official” photos in, I ordered some postcards, and I think they turned out rather well!
Since becoming freelance 18 months ago, I’ve taught a number of courses at my excellent local tech training centre, NTI Leeds. Over the next few months we’re running some one-day PHP courses (see my course dates page for more detail and the dates, all these are in Leeds although I’d like to run them elsewhere too), targeted at a particular area or set of skills. These are areas that I find myself delivering consultancy or training on frequently, or things I teach when I go places and realise these gaps exist in their knowledge. Does this match your experiences of “things I wish PHP developers knew – including me”? Continue reading 
OAuth::getLastResponse() to my error logs (this is PHP code, and you need to call OAuth::enableDebug() before you make the request to get this output) so I could see that I was getting the following back from Google:
GData
sslRequired
SSL is required to perform this operation.
Closer inspection shows that for one of the google endpoints, I had a prefix of http:// rather than https://. Those single-character bug fixes that take hours to find are my favourite!
My own talk is “Time and Money”; both are pretty important concepts to have a handle on when you are in business, either as a freelancer or when starting or helping to start a bigger business. Even as an employee, these are really important concepts to understand; most of what I learned about business I learned working with business people in the jobs I had beforehand.
Time is important because we need to figure out how much we have and how to share it around. Money is important because we all like to get paid. I’ll be sharing my own tactics for keeping both of them under control so I hope you’ll join us!
hg tag
not at a branch head
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