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Set Vim Shift Width
30 March 2009

I 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

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 courses …
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Home Made Yarn Swift
26 March 2009

Some 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

In 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

I 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

I 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

I 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 …
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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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