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Your Open Source Stories
21 June 2010

In this post, I am asking for your help and input, although it might seem like a post about nothing in particular to begin with. Please keep reading!

Last month, I gave a talk at TEK-X entitled "Open Source Your Career". Personally I think that a lot of the high …
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Text Commands for Skype
18 June 2010

I use Skype on linux and the client is quite limited in terms of buttons etc, which doesn't bother me at all since I don't use a mouse unless I must (answering skype calls forms a lot of the "must"!). In group chats however, its annoying to have the alerts …
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DPC Retrospective
17 June 2010

I spent most of last week and the weekend in (rather rainy) Amsterdam for the Dutch PHP Conference. This is an event that is in its 4th year, although I was attending for only the 3rd time. Two years ago, I spoke at DPC - my first conference talk. This year …
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Poor Man's Caching
10 June 2010

Describing something as a "poor man's" version of the thing is to say its a bit of a cheap or short-cutting version. I thought I'd share some VERY poor man's caching that I came up with the other day.

To set the scene - I'm hosting the Dutch PHP Conference this …
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Magic Methods on Think Vitamin
07 June 2010

I'm happy to announce that my new post 9 Magic Methods for PHP is live on Think Vitamin this morning. I've written a series of posts about OOP for the site, with a few more to come, and these "underscore-underscore" methods make for some very neat tricks with PHP, which …
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The Unavoidable PHPWomen
04 June 2010

I'm subscribed to a number of women-in-tech mailing lists because, well, I'm a woman in tech. Every few months or so a thread will come round about a technical conference with no female speakers. The issues around this are many, lengthy, and not something I want to write about here …
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DPC10 Has an Uncon
02 June 2010

As the Host of the Dutch PHP Conference this year, you can imagine I'm squeaky-excited about the whole event. This story goes right back to last year though, when someone (Ivo? Cal? I don't know who) conceived the idea of including an unconference in this year's event. DPC is easily …
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Web Services Tutorial on TechPortal
01 June 2010

I'm very pleased to say that today I have a a post about web services for PHP developers published on techPortal! OK so I edit techPortal so this is the written equivalent of introducing myself as a speaker but I enjoyed writing the post and I hope it'll be a …
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A Three-Year Old Home
31 May 2010

At one time I wrote about little else than the house on this blog, but these days its a pretty rare occurrence. However this weekend marks three years since we bought this place and moved in, and it does begin to feel like a home. In fact the house is …
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TEK-X: Conference Report
26 May 2010

Its been quiet around here recently, partly because I have been really busy and partly because I was in Chicago last week for the wonderful TEK-X conference. It would be very cool to get to go skipping around the world to conferences, however people paying for my airfares do seem …
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A "new" Netbook for Conferences
12 May 2010

A couple of years ago, I attended ZendCon for the first time. At that time, the only laptop I had was a work machine weighing 5kg, and I was staying in a different hotel from the main conference - so I hastily bought pretty much the first non-ee netbook on the …
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Podcast: How and Why to Become a Speaker
10 May 2010

This is a podcast version of my rant-in-the-bar advice to anyone thinking about speaking, or wondering how to begin. Personally I think many more people could be sharing their expertise at events than actually do so, and I would really like anyone who wants to get involved to have a …
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