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PHPNW09: Weekend of PHP and Fun
29 September 2009

Having just put the finishing touches to the schedule for PHPNW09, I'm realising just how excited I am about this event coming up in less than a fortnight. This is the second year we've run the event, and its bigger and better than last year - and I know what a …
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Working at The Hub, Bristol
28 September 2009

A couple of weeks ago I had some friends coming to the UK for a little while, but they were staying in Bristol and I live in Leeds. My weekends were pretty full so I wasn't sure if I would get to see them - but since I telecommute I can …
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Speaking at PHP Barcelona
25 September 2009

I'm delighted to announce I'll be speaking at the PHP Barcelona Conference in October. This is a new speaking topic for me, although I've been working and blogging in this area for a while, with a talk entitled "Working with Web Services". Its a very technical session looking at different …
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Lame Excuses for Avoiding Conferences
22 September 2009

At the moment I am getting to quite a few conferences, as a speaker, as an organiser, and sometimes as a plain old attendee. I get so much from these opportunities to learn from experts in their various fields, meet people in the flesh whose blogs I read or whom …
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Dedicated Talks Page
21 September 2009

With increasing numbers of speaking engagements, I've decided that its time to add a dedicated page to this site just to list talks I've given and wil be giving, and link through to slides, blog posts, and perhaps some photos of me speaking (not sure about that last one). So …
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New Netball Rules
13 September 2009

I somehow missed the news about the World Netball Series event. which brings together some of the top teams into a new form of competition with new rules. The event is in Manchester, 9th til 11th October, 2009 and it looks really good! I'm sort of busy that weekend, but …
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Speaking at PHPNW09
04 September 2009

I have experience of PHP conferences from all possible angles - as an attendee, as a speaker and as an organiser. At PHP North West this year I will be taking this to new heights and combining all three roles into a single one-day conference. I have a speaking slot at …
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PHPNW: Schedule and Crowd-Sourcing
28 August 2009

Plans for the second annual PHP North West conference (Manchester, 10th October) are coming along rather nicely, so I thought I'd share an update and some headline news. First of all - tickets cost 50 GBP + VAT. This is about 57 euros or 81 dollars. I don't know where else you …
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First Steps with bzr-svn
26 August 2009

I'm an SVN nut - love it, use it, talk about it at any opportunity, can't physically write code without it. But as a telecommuting developer who is sometimes travelling around, I've been thinking for a while that one of the distributed systems would really make more sense. I tried git …
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PHPWomen Merchandise
24 August 2009

A few weeks ago, phpwomen.org put out an announcement about merchandise. When we first started the group (almost 3 years ago, believe it or not) we printed t-shirts and gave them out at conferences. Once the various founder members and a few benefactors had paid for a set of …
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A Bit About Burnout
19 August 2009

I've been thinking a lot lately about burnout, I've had a couple of encounters with it in the last year myself and also a few people close to me have found themselves struggling internally after working too hard. I don't really have any advice to give - the advice I offer …
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Adding PUT variables to Request Object in Zend Framework
17 August 2009

When I wrote recently about testing web services within Zend Framework, I missed out a really key piece of information! I didn't explain how I was reading the PUT vars in my controller code in the first place - so I'll rectify that omission now.

Its very simple: I have extended …
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