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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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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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