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How To Use Salts and md5 in PHP
14 April 2009
Read moreThe MD5 hashing algorithm gets bad press because "its insecure". This post is not about that; MD5 is a hashing algorithm and is a good way of generating a representation of something, without actually needing the thing itself. I was asked about its use the other day so I thought …
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Speaking at phpGG
10 April 2009
Read moreNext week I'm passing through the Ibuildings office in Utrecht on business. During the 36 hours or so that I'll be there, the Dutch PHP User Group, phpGG have kindly extended an invitation to speak at a one-off user group meeting they are arranging. Well, I have a talk that …
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DPC - Dutch PHP Conference June 2009
09 April 2009
Read moreI keep getting asked about the Dutch PHP Conference so here's a quick outline about the event.
The conference is in Amsterdam, on 11th to 13th June 2009. Thursday 11th is the tutorial day, Friday and Saturday are the main conference days. The schedule is entirely in English and it …
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House Update
02 April 2009
Read moreI haven't blogged about the house for a while, and since we had to tidy up at the weekend for my grandparents' visit, I thought a tidy house was a good time to take a few photos. When we first moved in, I blogged a lot about the house, and … -
PHPNW Test Fest Event - May 9th 2009
01 April 2009
Read moreThe PHPNW user group are taking part in this year's PHP Test Fest. Our event will be on 9th May - you can sign up to attend (limited places so do let us know) on the upcoming page for this event: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2299548/
The idea behind Test …
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Set Vim Shift Width
30 March 2009
Read moreI have had a problem with vim for a while. Although I have my tabstop set to 4, when I use >> or << to indent or undent (technical term) my code, it moves the code by 8 characters. As I'm now working with phpcodesniffer, I'm pretty motivated to get my editor …
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PHP Training Courses from Ibuildings
27 March 2009
Read more|image1|Ibuildings (my employers) have announced their public courses in the UK - this is very exciting as its been in the planning for a while and of course it means more people can be using PHP to build excellent applications. There are more details on the Ibuildings site of the …
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Home Made Yarn Swift
26 March 2009
Read moreSome time ago I started a project, using laceweight mohair, which I blogged about. Its take 6 months to finish the first skein, which was wound into a ball by friends, and now I'm ready for the next one. I've been chasing around trying to find a wool winder I …
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Ada Lovelace Day: Kathy Sierra
24 March 2009
Read moreIn honour of Ada Lovelace Day, this is a blog post about a woman I admire in technology: Kathy Sierra.
I've been a big fan of Kathy's site for a number of years, hers was the first site I saw where eloquent prose was wrapped around technical and relevant content …
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Wordpress Automatic Update Asking for FTP
20 March 2009
Read moreI have a wordpress installation that I look after (in fact its phpwomen.org) and since upgrading it to 2.7 I see that it has lots of "click here to upgrade" buttons, both for the core code and even to upgrade and install plugins. However when I click on …
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Trainer Lacing
19 March 2009
Read moreI play a lot of sport, and wear almost exclusively Asics trainers (sneakers if you like the other kind of English) to do so. In fact I only wear one pair of trainers, to the gym, to classes and for netball - which might be a mistake. One pair of trainers …
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Open Office Presenter View
17 March 2009
Read moreI was delighted to discover recently that Open Office have released a working version of their long-anticipated Presenter View. Both Powerpoint (from Microsoft) and Keynote (on the Mac) have these views which allow someone giving a presentation to see the current slide, the next slide(s), any notes associated with …