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Fixing Broken Serendipity Category
20 June 2009

I migrated this blog to serendipity almost two years ago, and there have been a few things about it which have always driven me a bit mad. Many of these improved when I upgraded to version 1.4.1 of s9y but a few have persisted, including having two of …
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New Patio and Garden Gate
19 June 2009

There haven't been any house updates for a while - because I haven't been here so haven't done anything! However we did realise earlier this year that we were never going to find the time to lay our own patio, we've been in the house two years now (can I get …
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Updating Memcached on Ubuntu Jaunty
17 June 2009

I've been working with memcache-related things lately and ran into a problem where the library I was using just didn't seem to do what its documentation said it would. It turned out that it was making a "gets" call rather than a "get" call - and this functionality wasn't introduced to …
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Dutch PHP Conference
15 June 2009

Often when I attend PHP conferences, I blog as I go along, upload a few photos and generally share with others who aren't in attendance. At DPC this year I completely failed to do any of the above - no excuses, I was just having too much fun :)

I travelled over …
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Creating a Banner Bag
08 June 2009

Often at PHP Conferences, the organisers are good enough to give PHPWomen a table, and we have a banner we use on these occasions.

Its kind of an annoying thing to lug around with me - its about a metre high and usually travels in a cardboard tube. I've been all …
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DPC09: Looking forward to the Dutch PHP Conference
06 June 2009

This time next week I'll be full of new ideas and enthusiasm as the Dutch PHP Conference 2009 will have ended. Last year was the first time I attended the event and I have memories of a great crowd and some fabulous sessions, also my first experience speaking at a …
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PHPNW09 - PHP Conference in Manchester
03 June 2009
Last night at the PHPNW user group we announced this year's conference - PHPNW09. We don't have a lot of detail but here is a run-down of all the information I have:
- Date: Saturday 10th October 2009
- Location: Manchester Conference Centre. It's a new venue but just as central and actually …
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Top Tips from Linux-Fu
02 June 2009

I have recently been giving a talk entitled "Linux-Fu for PHP Developers" (slides are here) and although it includes some really basic commands, even some quite experienced people have thanked me for particular bits that they picked up. I'm considering dropping some of the sections from this talk so here …
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Architecting Web Services - FOWA Tour
29 May 2009

I spoke at the FOWA Tour event in Leeds yesterday, as their local speaker (they set aside a slot for each place they go). It was a great event, good atmosphere and I really enjoyed the both crowd and content. I can't imagine what the logistics for something like this …
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php|tek 2009: Quick Round-Up
27 May 2009

Last week I was at the php|tek 2009 conference in Chicago. This was a really exciting trip for me - only my second conference as a speaker and the first time I'd attended any of the MTA conferences. I was absolutely delighted to have three of my sessions accepted into …
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Linux-Fu For PHP Developers
22 May 2009

The slides from my talk at php|tek are now online - Linux-Fu for PHP Developers. Thanks to everyone who attended and left feed back for me on joind.in. Feel free to leave a comment if you were there or if you have any questions about the slides!*

* Unless the …
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php|tek 2009: Tutorial Day
19 May 2009

I'm currently attending the php|tek conference in Chicago. Today is tutorial day, and I delivered a half-day session with Matthew Weier O'Phinney of Zend. Our session was entitled "Practical SVN for PHP Developers" and the slides are online. The session seems to have gone over pretty well - this is …
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