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DPC Talk Review
16 June 2008

A couple of days ago I had the pleasure of speaking at the excellent Dutch PHP Conference in Amsterdam. I haven't done anything like this before and I did a lot of preparation - as you'll know if you read this blog regularly.

My talk was entitled "PHP Deployment with Subversion …
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DPC Day 1
13 June 2008

Well, its a misleading title because the day is only half over but the Dutch PHP Conference 2008 is well and truly underway! Today I've been in the Zend Framework tutorial given by Matthew Weir O'Phinney, which is a full-day session. Its been excellent - with some concepts, some examples, and …
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Dutch Conference
12 June 2008

Today I leave for Amsterdam, to visit the Dutch PHP Conference where I will be getting my first experience as a conference speaker. It would be fair to say that I'm very nervous - its a high profile event and the other speakers in the lineup are pretty amazing!

When I …
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A year and a day (or two)
09 June 2008

It might not seem like a year since I announced a completed house purchase, but it is. A year and a few days in fact! Actually buying the house felt like a huge achievement, buying our first home took 9 months, cost a lot in surveyors fees and involved 3 …
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Visit To PHP London
06 June 2008

Last night I had the opportunity to speak at the PHP London group, giving a talk entitled "PHP Deployment with Subversion". This is the talk I will be giving next week at the Dutch PHP Conference in Amsterdam, and giving the same talk last night was the last step in …
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Baby Courgette Plants
01 June 2008

Recently my friend Deb, Leeds Geekup organiser and Ruby developer, gave me two baby courgette plants ... she even went so far to photograph me, slightly tipsy, leaving the pub to get the bus home:

I did get the plants home intact and planted them out. I was going to post …
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Data Migration Article on DevZone
22 May 2008

I'm pleased to announce that DevZone have published an article of mine - the examples article I wrote to accompany my recent podcast on the topic of importing and migrating data. It has some code examples which I think make a good illustration of the points I was trying to make …
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Confessions of an Input Device Fetishist
21 May 2008

What can I say? I really really like input devices. I use a laptop day-to-day, it has its own keyboard and glide pad. Do I use them .... err, not often! I've always been quite particular about keyboards and mice, and since developing tendonitis in my hands and arms a few …
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Data Migration Podcast
15 May 2008

I'm the guest on this week's php|abstract podcast from DevZone, talking about some techniques for importing and migrating data. I have a few pet strategies for dealing with this and they're outlined on the podcast so dip in and let me know what you think.

There will also be …
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Manchester Is Decidedly Undiverse
14 May 2008

So last night, more or less on a whim, I popped to the Geekup that was on in Manchester. I was slightly alarmed when I enquired at the bar where the event was and was told there was nothing like that booked for that night ... anyway I wandered outside and …
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Nest Of Tables
13 May 2008

We've been decorating the living room since what feels like forever, I'll post some proper pictures of it finished but here is a sneak preview of the photos I took of the new nest of tables that's been waiting for us to finish decorating for a few months. I finally …
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Attempted Break-in
11 May 2008

Last night we came home at around midnight and disturbed an intruder. Nobody hurt and nothing taken, is the short version.

We got back, walked up to the front door and I decided I needed to water my plants as they were looking at bit sad. So I went up …
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