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Migrating Github Contributors to an Organization
02 August 2010

Recently, a github project that I contribute to, joind.in, moved from an ordinary github user account over to an organization. Getting contributors moved over is pretty straight forward, I have a fork of the main repo on github at http://github.com/lornajane/joind.in and that updated to …
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Garage Clearance
28 July 2010

When we bought this house, three years ago, we also bought the contents of it, which did bring us some nice furniture but also brought a staggering amount of junk. While the house has slowly emerged from the chaos, the garage has remained basically full, including a jacuzzi bath, more …
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Keynoting at PHPNW10
27 July 2010

I'm slightly surprised but mostly wildly excited to announce that I'll be the keynote speaker at the PHP North West Conference in October. It is held in Manchester in the UK, which is about an hour from where I live in Leeds, so it is definitely my "home" conference, and …
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WordCamp
22 July 2010

Last weekend I was at WorkCampUK in Manchester - it's taken me this long to writ the blog post because I needed time to download my photos, however I've now done that and I didn't get anything at all worth publishing, d'oh!

I am a wordpress user and even wrote a …
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SugarCRM 6 Installation Error
16 July 2010

I noticed that SugarCRM have just released their new version 6.0.0, and since my sugarcrm installation is madly out of date and I'm about to start using it again, I thought I'd just throw the old one away and install from scratch. I had no problems until I …
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Giving Up The Day Job
13 July 2010

The In-A-Nutshell Version I have resigned from Ibuildings. I will complete my notice period here in a couple of weeks and then move on to a wide and interesting variety of well-paying freelance assignments covering development, consultancy, writing and speaking. Hopefully.

The slightly longer version really is this. Two and …
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Retrieving Product Attributes from Magento's V2 API
12 July 2010

I've been working with the API for Magento in recent weeks and I had a bit of a struggle explaining to the V2 API which attributes of a product I wanted to retrieve. Actually I had issues talking to the V2 API at all, but that's a different post so …
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Speaking at FrOSCon
09 July 2010

In August I'll be attending FrOSCon in Germany for the first time, and speaking there. It's a mixed technology conference, with rooms set aside for separate scheduling for various projects and technologies. I'll be speaking in the PHP room, delivering "Working With Web Services", a talk which covers how to …
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Something Special from PHPWomen
02 July 2010

Last month, while in Amsterdam to host the Dutch PHP Conference 2010, I was absolutely stunned (as in, completely speechless - that's pretty rare for me) to have my PHPWomen friends pull me aside and present me with something:

The inscription reads:

Lorna Mitchell

In recognition of your extraordinary efforts

PHPWomen …
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PHPNW10: Call for Papers
29 June 2010

It's official, PHP North West 2010 is definitely happening ... and for that we'll need some people to pop along and give a talk! As in previous years, we'll first of all deal with selecting the papers for our main conference day, 9th October. Talks can be 60 minutes or 30 …
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Working with Branches in Git
28 June 2010

Recently I've been doing more git than I ever intended to, working with the Joind.in codebase, contributing and managing contributions to that. I quickly realised that I needed to make changes on branches, and since I'm new to git, it took a while to figure some of this out …
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Accessing the Magento V2 API
24 June 2010

Recently I've been working with Magento at work, and in particular with integrating with their API. Now, before I say anything more, I must say that I am always pleased when I see that these products do include some kind of API. The Magento one is a bit interesting, although …
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