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Book Review: RESTful PHP
02 January 2009

I was recently contacted by the friendly people at Packt Publishing to ask if I'd like a copy of a new addition to their catalogue - RESTful PHP Web Services

, by Samisa Abeysinghe.

When I received and unpacked the book, it was a little lighter than I had expected, however REST …
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2008 Wrapup
01 January 2009

Its that time of year again, out with the old and in with the new. And 2008 was in fact a very exciting year, mostly professionally, and almost entirely unexpectedly.

I kicked off my year by getting my ZCE, which seemed like an excellent start. For my next trick, I …
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Colourful Tabs in Screen
24 December 2008

A while ago I posted about screen, and included my .screenrc file. I got some teasing for this, since the tabs show up pink. In fact this .screenrc file is one I stole from somewhere a few years ago and didn't really think much about the colours. Since then I've …
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Christmas Preparations
21 December 2008

We're hosting Christmas for family this year (actually its Kevin's family, but that's a technicality), and between preparations for that and having a new camera in the house, I have some nice photos. After all that we've done on this house, suddenly it feels like its coming together into a …
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Stale NFS File Handle
18 December 2008

We had some fun and games with our house server recently, when one of its disks died horribly*. I've only just got around to sorting out the backups again now, which use an external USB hard drive and rsnapshot. I started by reading my earlier rsnapshot post and also the …
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Hanging Snowflakes Decoration
15 December 2008

Last year in January I bought (actually my dad paid for them, thanks dad!) a whole box of Christmas decorations from IKEA, for about 2 GBP. In the box were some snowflake decorations, and yesterday I made a little hanging snowflake decoration to go over the stairs in the hall …
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Relocating a Wordpress Installation
12 December 2008

Wordpress is a fine basic website tool, and I've used it for a few different odds and ends. One thing it does have that suprises me every time is that it uses a setting for its web address. So as part of the install, it sets this setting and then …
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PHP Advent Article Published
05 December 2008

I was wildly excited a few weeks ago to receive an email inviting me to be one of the contributors to this year's PHP Advent. Actually the biggest kick was seeing my name in a list of PHP luminaries! The article was published today, you can find it at http …
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Birthday Time Again
05 December 2008

I'm not old enough to have stopped counting the years yet - and today is my birthday. I'm another year older and actually I think I am a bit wiser than I was this time last year - its been a busy one with a new job and some new experiences (public …
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Zend_Paginator on Ibuildings Blog
01 December 2008

In case anyone thought it was a bit quiet around here - that's because I've been working on a few other bits and pieces! Today I posted an article about Zend_Paginator to the Ibuildings blog. Do stop by and have a read - and read the comments as well as there are …
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Christmas Cranberry Chutney
29 November 2008

This weekend I got a chance to try out a recipe I've had my eye on for a while. Its this Spicy Cranberry Chutney which I'm making as christmas presents (home made presents - way nicer and way cheaper!). Here is it in progress, and in the jars when it was …
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Girl Geek Dinner Next Week
26 November 2008

I'm getting quite excited now about the next Leeds Girl Geek Dinner which is next Wednesday (3rd December 2008). Got some cool speakers by the look of it - I know Monica (and she is fab) and from Katie's bio we are in for a treat. Also I have been promised …
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