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PHPNW Post-match Analysis
24 November 2008

Last weekend saw a crowd descend on central Manchester in the UK for the first PHP North West conference. We had almost 180 attendees, 12 sessions, 16 speakers, and lots of fun. The day itself went off very smoothly and although I didn't manage to see many of the sessions …
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Speaking at "Beauty and the Geek"
17 November 2008

I'm giving a talk next week in a Beauty Salon. Yes, really :) There is an event entitled "Beauty and the Geek" at Heaven Spa in Didsbury - details on their blog - and the event is on 26th November. It sounds like a fun mix of beauty techniques (mouse-finger massage, anyone?) plus …
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PHP North West Conference in Manchester - Next Week!
13 November 2008

Its been creeping up on us for a while but now PHPNW is almost upon us! PHP people will be arriving from all sorts of places and coming together to attend this event. The schedule is full of excellent talks by a selection of speakers - and we'll round the day …
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Blanket for Christmas
11 November 2008

I'm currently struggling a bit with my Christmas crochet, so I'm posting here to hopefully pressurise myself into actually finishing it in time. The plan is to make a blanket for my granny for Christmas (its a surprise, I'm banking on her not learning to work the 'net before then …
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Leeds Girl Geek Dinner - December 3rd
07 November 2008

Announcing the second girlgeek dinner in Leeds! The event will be Wednesday 3rd December, at The Loft Leeds and tickets are available now, priced at £15. Monica Tailor from Kilo75 will be speaking at the event, and it will have quite a Christmassy feel.

The rules of the girl geek …
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My PHPWomen Interview on Sun's SDN Podcast
06 November 2008

I was recently interviewed by Cassandra Clark from Sun about PHPWomen - they've put the interview live now and you can find it at http://blogs.sun.com/SDNChannel/entry/introduction_to_phpwomen_org

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Locale-Sensitive Dates in PHP
05 November 2008

I am working on a site at the moment whose front end is in Dutch - and for an English-only speaker, its an education! Most things default to English and I had no idea how to use PHP to work with other languages.

In particular I needed dates like "Donderdag 23 …
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Introduction to Zend_Db
31 October 2008

I recently worked on a project which was based on Zend Framework - I haven't worked with it before and I was temporarily confused by the existing implementation of some of the database-level stuff. After much reading and untangling of code, I'm now pretty clear how this should look, so here's …
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Opera's Address Bar AutoCompletion
30 October 2008

I recently upgraded the copy of Opera on one of my machines, only to find a few things about it which had changed from previous versions were driving me mad!! Immediately noticeable was that the address bar autocompletion seemed to have gone completely nuts. It was autocompleting all sorts of …
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Man-fit T-shirt to Girl Top
25 October 2008

I am sick beyond description of conference shirts, they are big and they are sack-like. I have lots of them, I'm expected to wear them a lot, and they are not particularly confidence-boosting. Dressing up for the crowd at technical events is not the way forward, but I am a …
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Screen for Linux
24 October 2008

I use a lot of apps from the command-line, partly because command-line stuff is the same on every system, and partly because I struggle to use a mouse for RSI reasons. Unsurprisingly, the best keyboard-navigable apps are ones that only use the keyboard in the first place! One app that …
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How to Submit a Conference Talk
23 October 2008

Speaking at conferences is a great way to share ideas and meet people - but actually getting the opportunity to do is a little more tricky and usually involves proposing a talk. In the last year I've attended IPC in Germany and PHP London, spoken at DPC in Amsterdam, submitted talks …
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