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PHPNW: One Month Countdown
21 October 2008

|image1|In a month's time I'll be in Manchester, ready for the PHP North West conference. The conference is a one-day event (Saturday, 22nd November), although the social side of things will kick off the night before. Tickets are 50 GBP for the early bird, 35 GBP for students and …
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Crochet Tutorial: Next Steps
19 October 2008

If you've been following the previous entries in this series, you'll have seen how to start to crochet, and if you've followed the instructions you should be able to add another couple of rounds onto your project and end up with something that looks like this:

There are a number …
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rsnapshot flag for usb drive
12 October 2008

rsnapshot is a great tool that I use for all my backup stuff, its really easy and seems pretty robust (or rather, I haven't broken it yet!). When I set it up most recently, I discovered that it has a very useful flag, no_create_root. The problem I often have is …
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PHPNW Tickets On Sale
06 October 2008

Tickets are now on sale for PHPNW - the PHP Conference in Manchester, UK, on November 22nd. This is a conference aimed at bringing together and promoting the amazing wealth of local talent and activity in PHP within the North West and wider area. The schedule is online already and tickets …
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3-minute Crafty Earring Tidy
03 October 2008

Recently I was shopping for an embriodery hoop and I saw that you can buy ones which are ready-made picture frames, you literally put the fabric in, embrioder, then trim off the outside and tidy up the back. I decided that this would make a great basis for an earring …
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Mounting the VMWare Tools Installation CD
02 October 2008
I was recently installing the VMWare tools onto a debian etch virtual machine which I downloaded from the thoughtpolice.co.uk site, and I ran into problems. When the installation instructions from thoughtpolice say to type
```
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/
```
This gives me an error about "You must specify the …
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Tinyurl Shortcut in Opera
29 September 2008

I am an irssi user - I have issues with mice (I don't use one) and so the text-based IRC client works wonderfully well for me. It also looks less like a chat client and more like I might be working on a terminal screen, which was more useful before I …
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Schedule for PHPNW
26 September 2008

Today saw the publication of the schedule for the PHP North West Conference - you can see it in full on their site. There are some great speakers lined up - Johannes Schlüter, Rob Allen and Stefan Koopmanschap to name just a few that immediately jump out of the page. Tickets aren't …
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Excitement at Ibuildings
25 September 2008

I didn't post much of a wrap-up after ZendCon - partly because that trip ran into the start of another one and I only got home properly yesterday, and partly because something happened in California that I couldn't talk about until now. One thing I did want to mention is that …
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My Sister's Graduation
23 September 2008

Yesterday I attended my little sister's graduation ceremony - she has a BA in Early Childhood Studies from University College Birmingham and I am so proud of her I can't actually express it! She's worked hard to get to here and the path was not always smooth. I uploaded a selection …
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Update from ZendCon
17 September 2008

I'm currently in California, at ZendCon. I'm having way too much fun to blog but there is a writeup on the phpwomen site of my experiences so far. I've met some great people, and its long days but I'm learning a lot! I've (been) volunteered for an uncon session later …
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Using curl and PHP to talk to a REST service
15 September 2008

Having recently written articles about curl and about writing a PHP REST server, I thought I'd complete the circle and put here a few notes on using PHP's curl wrapper as a Rest client. Also I had to look some of this up when I needed to actually do it …
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