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Professional Development for Girl Geeks
14 August 2008
Read moreLast night I gave a talk at the Leeds Girl Geek Dinners entitled "Professional Development for Girl Geeks" - and you can find the slides on slideshare if you're interested.
Most of what I said wasn't on the slides, but the gist of it was along the lines of:
- Use the …
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Surfing Without a Mouse
12 August 2008
Read moreI don't use a mouse most of the time, because I have tendonitis in my forearms and find that I can use a keyboard for a whole working week without too much pain, whereas any mouse usage starts hurting badly in a day and half. As a web developer, I …
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Daisy Unlocked on Mario Kart
10 August 2008
Read moreI am a big fan of pretty much anything Nintendo, particularly Zelda and Mario Kart. I loved mario kart doubledash and this was the first driving game I really got into (I still can't do technical driving games, only kiddy ones). So when Mario Kart was launched for Wii, we …
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Crochet Tutorial: The Slip Knot
08 August 2008
Read moreI often get asked what "crochet" is ... well, you can read about it on wikipedia, but actually its really easy ... so I'll teach you :)
Here's the first task, all you need is a bit of yarn, or string, or anything really.
Part 2 coming soon ...
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PHPNW 2008 - 22nd November
06 August 2008
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I'm wildly excited to be able to tell you that the PHP North West Conference now has a date and venue confirmed! The event will be at Manchester Central (apparently this used to be the GMex), on Saturday 22nd November with an early bird ticket price of £50. At the … -
Bubble Wrap Camera Case
02 August 2008
Read moreI've made a new case for the camera, using bubble wrap as padding. The inside is microfibre cloth (note to self: don't ever use this again, its too fluffy for words and frays much too easily!) and the outside is crochet with a button fastener.
I started by making the …
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Accessing Incoming PUT Data from PHP
30 July 2008
Read moreRecently I started writing a REST service. I began in the usual way, writing a php script, calling it with a GET request, accessing the variables using the PHP superglobal variable $_GET. I wrote code to handle a POST request and used the variables I found in $_POST. Then I …
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Flickr Plugin Weirdness
29 July 2008
Read moreI am an increasingly avid flickr user and have a growing collection of photos on my flickr account. It seems daft to upload photos twice all the time so I tried the flickr plugin for serendipity (my bloggling platform) but I couldn't get my account to connect correctly. In the …
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Ibuildings Seminar, Leeds
25 July 2008
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My employers, Ibuildings, have been running a series of seminars where we invite a few people (and it is a few, they are generally small events), bring some of our developers along, and have some technical tutorials, demonstrations and general discussions, and some food. The previous events have all been … -
Announcing the Leeds Girl Geek Dinner
22 July 2008
Read moreOnce upon a time there was a girl geek called Sarah Blow, and she wanted to hang out with her girl friends and geek out at the same time (and who wouldn't?). So she founded the phenomenon of the Girl Geek Dinner in London. Well this great idea has spread …
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LugRadioLive Wolverhampton 2008
20 July 2008
Read moreYesterday I had an outing to the LUGRadio Live event in Wolverhampton. To be honest this isn't my usual kind of crowd but it was local, the talks looked interesting and so off I went.
Well it was a very interesting day - the highlight was of course meeting Emma from …
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LugRadio Live UK
15 July 2008
Read moreI'm attending LUGRadio Live UK this weekend, in sunny Wolverhampton! I'm slightly concerned that this might be too geeky for me and I might be scared but there are people I'd like to meet, the talks look interesting, and I can imagine it will be a pretty good crowd. If …