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TEK-X: Conference Report
26 May 2010
Read moreIts 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
Read moreA 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
Read moreThis 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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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: