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PHPNW Update
12 September 2008

With just over a week remaining on the PHP North West Call for Papers, plans for this Manchester-based conference are fairly racing along. The call for papers closes on 21st September (in time for me arriving home from ZendCon so we can make some decisions before I shoot off again …
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Crochet Tutorial: Granny Square Round 2
10 September 2008

Here's the last in the crochet tutorial series, showing how to fit a second round of granny square onto the existing "granny's daughter" that we made previously. I'll have to take some photos of stuff I've done with this pattern to give you some ideas of what can actually be …
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Acer Aspire One and an XD Card
09 September 2008

I may have mentioned my new acer aspire one already, and I probably also mentioned the problems I had with it not reading my camera card. The camera is a Fuji Finepix, and the card is a 2GB XD card - XD is the format used by Fuji and by Olympus …
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Laceweight Purple Mohair
06 September 2008

I am a habitual chunky-yarn knitter. I will go all the way down to double knit weight, but beyond that I find life is too short to bother :) The upshot of this is that my projects get very big very quickly. I have a few trips coming up where I …
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PHP Rest Server (part 3 of 3)
05 September 2008

Edit: I have a newer series of articles on this topic. You can start reading here :)

This is part 3 of my article about writing a restful service server. If you haven't already, you might like to read part 1 (covering the core library and grabbing the information we need …
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PHP Rest Server (part 2 of 3)
03 September 2008

Edit: I have a newer series of articles on this topic. You can start reading here :)

This is part 2 of my rest service writing article. In part 1 we saw the library which holds the functionality we will be using, and we also handled the incoming request and captured …
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PHP Rest Server (part 1 of 3)
01 September 2008

I recently had reason to write a REST server in PHP, which was very interesting. There aren't a whole lot of resources on this topic around so I thought I'd write an outline of what I did. There is quite a lot to it so I'm publishing in multiple sections …
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Crochet Tutorial: Granny Square Round 1
31 August 2008

New crochet lesson, and today it really gets interesting! I decided to film the whole row to show you but flickr only allows 90 seconds playback so its in 2 halves :)

Any questions, please feel free to comment here or contact me for help! It does go by quite quickly …
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The Wool Shop, Leeds
28 August 2008

There's been a wool shop on Tong Road in Leeds for years, and its always been pretty good. Last year I heard it was closing, the lady who ran it was retiring. To cut a very long story short, it hasn't closed!!

I've been in to inspect and its had …
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Acer Aspire One (and cosy)
26 August 2008

I can't remember another post which was in both the "tech" and "craft" categories - so no complaints from either camp please! Last week I became the new owner of an acer aspire one netbook/ultra mobile PC. Its little, blue, and very cute! If you want to skip the tech …
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Crochet Tutorial: Foundation Ring
24 August 2008

Following on from the last lesson, where we did crochet chain with yarn and a hook, this week we use the chain to create the basis for our first project.

It'll start to look like something after the next one, promise :)

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Getting Started with irssi
23 August 2008

Irssi is a fabulous IRC client, which runs on the command line. I'm sure I don't use half the features it offers but its very stable, unintrusive ( you can run it in a background terminal, or even leave it running in a detached screen process ), and frankly excellent. Because I …
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