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PHPNW: Site, Tickets and CfP
03 July 2009

The date for PHPNW was announced a few weeks ago as Saturday 10th October 2009, and now we've got all the official bits and bobs to go with it! In outline:

The website: http://conference.phpnw.org.uk

Tickets: http://conference.phpnw.org.uk/register. Early bird pricing until September …
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Status Codes for Web Services
02 July 2009

This the last entry in a mini series on points to consider when designing and building web services. So far there have been posts on error feedback for web services, auth mechanisms for web services, saving state in web services and using version parameters with web services.

Unlike the other …
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Version Parameters for Web Services
30 June 2009

This is a mini series on points to consider when designing and building web services. So far there have been posts on error feedback for web services, auth mechanisms for web services and saving state in web services.

When designing a service API, there are lots of things you can …
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Saving State in a Web Service
23 June 2009

This is a mini series on points to consider when designing and building web services. So far there have been posts on error feedback for web services and auth mechanisms for web services.

Web services, by their very natures, are stateless, and this is no different to any other web …
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Memcache Follow-Up Article on Techportal
22 June 2009

Today techportal published a new article of mine on their site - New Memcached Extension for PHP. Its a sequel to the article I wrote for them earlier in the year entitled Getting Started with Memcache. At the same time I wrote that first article, Andrei Zmievski released a new extension …
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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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