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Maker Faire UK
16 March 2009

Yesterday I took the opportunity to pop along to the Maker Faire in Newcastle - its so exciting to see events like these in the UK! The marquee there was pretty small but what it had was great fun. I saw several things there that had me really drooling - one was …
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Simple SVN Merging
10 March 2009

Today I had a big SVN merge to do - i'm at the end of a development cycle and I needed to merge my branch of changes back into trunk. I dug out my crib sheet for merging and tweeted that I had - and a few people asked me to blog …
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Blurb Book of Peru Holiday Photos
05 March 2009

In January, Kevin and I went to Peru for a few weeks - to visit our friend Cally, and we did some touring while we were there. Between the two of us, we took almost 3,000 photos. Which is way too many to make granny sit through when we got …
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Sortable Views in Drupal 6
04 March 2009

I'm completely new to Drupal, I've heard a lot about it and I know some evangelists, but I've never had reason to use it - until now. So, I might be using the wrong words for things or not explaining things too well, but I'm going to record this because it …
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PHPUK Conference (London) 2009
02 March 2009

Last week I was in London for the annual PHP conference held by the PHP London User Group. One thing that makes this conference different from any others I've attended is that its organised by volunteers. Another thing which makes it unique is that I have attended more than one …
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techPortal - new PHP developer resource
16 February 2009

There is a new resource for PHP developers available from today - techPortal from Ibuildings. First, I must add the disclaimer - Ibuildings are my employers, so I've known about this project for a while. I helped set up the site and the first tech article on there is mine. With those …
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Bean Dish
15 February 2009

I have recently made this "bean something" dish a few times, for vegetarian fajitas, to eat with rice, and also as filling for baked potatoes. Its yummy and even better I can feed it to a friend with a requirement for meat-free, dairy-free and gluten-free food! Here's the recipe:

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Speaking at GeekUp Leeds
11 February 2009

On 18th February, I'll be making an appearance at Geekup Leeds, to give a talk entitled "Linux-Fu for PHP Developers". Basically this is a tour of some of my most-favourite command line tools available in Linux, and its a pre-cursor to the talk I'll give later this year at php …
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PHPWomen "I am" Competition
09 February 2009

PHPWomen have announced a new competition on their website - to complete a sentence "I am a phpwomen member because..." in a post on their forums to win a prize! Already people are posting and the prize is a certificate to spend at php|architect's site. Pop over to the forums …
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DPC 2009 - Currently Calling for Papers
06 February 2009

The Call for Papers for the Dutch PHP Conference 2009 is currently open - with only a week left, it closes next week on Friday 13th. I went to this conference in Amsterdam for the first time last year, when I was still relatively new in my job at Ibuildings. This …
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Locked Joomla! Content
05 February 2009

I run the website for my local netball club and when I implemented this site I chose Joomla! to run it on. It seemed like a good idea at the time, in fact I even thought some of the other club members might log in and type into the user-friendly …
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Locking Session in KDE
03 February 2009

I've been using KDE full-time long enough that I ought to know this, but I had to look it up! I was working in a shared location and I wanted to lock my session when I walked away from my machine. There's an option in the start menu but the …
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