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CodeigniterCon 2010
16 August 2010
Read moreI spent the weekend in Bristol so I could attend cicon2010 - a volunteer-organised first-edition conference around the CodeIgniter PHP Framework. It started on Saturday morning with registration at 8:30am and the first talk at 9am. When I arrived (at about ten to nine) there were no organisers there. I …
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Leeds PHP User Group
12 August 2010
Read moreThere's a new PHP user group which has sprung up in my home town of Leeds - Leeds PHP. So far it has met twice and its been a good crowd both times. Our meetings at the moment are at Brewery Tap, which is not only the closest pub to the …
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3 Top Tips for Database Naming
10 August 2010
Read morePerhaps this is more of a rant than a post but I do keep running into issues with databases with names that are inconsistent - which makes them really difficult to work with. When designing a database, there are a few points to consider:
Singular and Plural
This goes for table …
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Migrating Github Contributors to an Organization
02 August 2010
Read moreRecently, 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
Read moreWhen 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
Read moreI'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
Read moreLast 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
Read moreI 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
Read moreThe 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
Read moreI'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
Read moreIn 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
Read moreLast 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 MitchellIn recognition of your extraordinary effortsPHPWomen …