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Thoughts on OggCamp in Liverpool
06 May 2010
Read moreLast weekend I went to Liverpool (my first visit there!) to attend OggCamp for the second year in a row. This isn't a part of the software community I normally interact with, but I accidentally went to a LUGRadio event once a couple of years ago and have been hooked …
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Accessing the Magento Web API
04 May 2010
Read moreI've been working with the Magento Web API lately, and the first problem I ran into was actually getting access to it. Contrary to its reputation, I found some perfectly good documentation outlining how to connect to the service and use it. I thought I was on to a winner …
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Speaking at PHPNW May
28 April 2010
Read moreNext week I'm speaking at the PHPNW User Group in Manchester on Tuesday Evening, 4th May - full details of the event are on upcoming.org. The talk isn't directly about PHP though; I'll be giving my "Open Source Your Career" talk, discussing how contributing to the community can really help …
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Bzr-svn: Preserving Commits and Rebasing
26 April 2010
Read moreRecently I've been using bzr-svn when I'm working with subversion repositories; its a bridge between a local bzr repository and a remote subversion one. I travel fairly frequently and the pain of being disconnected from the server, unable to diff or log, and then either unpicking everything I've done or …
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svn+ssh with specific identity file
22 April 2010
Read moreHere is a quick howto on using a config file to associate an SSH connection with a particular identity file. When I ssh directly from the command line, I can specify the port, identity file to use, and a whole raft of other options. However these options aren't available when …
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Book Review: Making it Big in Software
19 April 2010
Read moreRecently the kind folks at Prentice Hall contacted me to ask if I'd like to read a new publication of theirs , "Making it Big in Software". It sounded like something I'd be interested in and the copy duly arrived. My first impressions were of a wordy book, very much aimed …
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Wordpress Plugin for Joind.In
14 April 2010
Read moreIn case anyone thinks I've gone joind.in crazy after already writing about its import functionality this week, I really haven't. Its just that some months of pulling a few things together have finally bourne fruit and so I can actually write about them now they are done! The good …
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Importing Data to Joind.In
12 April 2010
Read moreUpdate! This post is now outdated - the import functionality on joind.in has been replaced with a CSV import.
As a conference organiser I work extensively with the site joind.in, which allows attendees to comment on sessions at a conference. Recently the site has also started supporting sessions with …
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OOP Articles on Think Vitamin
06 April 2010
Read moreI've been working on a series of articles for Think Vitamin, the Carsonified blog, about OOP in PHP5. In fact I'm wildly excited about this, partly because I love to write and partly because its such a cool site to write for! The first two installments are now live:
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Speaking at PHPWM: April 6th
29 March 2010
Read moreNext week I will be making the trip to my original home town of Birmingham to speak at the PHP West Midlands User Group, on 6th April. They are an active user group and although I haven't managed to organise myself to attend their meetings before, I do keep meeting …
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Ada Lovelace Day 2010: Mrs Maginnis
24 March 2010
Read moreThis is a post in celebration of Ada Lovelace Day, recognising women in science and technology. Last year I wrote about Kathy Sierra for Ada Lovelace Day; this year my subject is someone much closer to my own life.
I'd like to write about someone who influenced me greatly - in …
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GETting RESTful collections - may I filter?
23 March 2010
Read moreAt work at Ibuildings recently, I've been teaching some classes on web services, and its a topic that I've spoken about once or twice at conferences. But something has always bothered me, so I find myself in the unusual position of blogging a question.
RESTful collections
So, when you are …