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Inaugural Sheffield Geekup
08 May 2008

Last night I attended and spoke at the First Sheffield Geekup held at the Fat Cat in Sheffield. My talk was entitled "Deploying Web Projects with Subversion" and you can see the slides for that at http://www.slideshare.net/lornajane/deploying-web-projects-with-svn/.

Overall I think the event was well-organised, there …
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Geekup Sheffield
30 April 2008

I was very pleased to hear that Sheffield is getting its own Geekup event, and that it starts next week on 7th May and will run on the first Wednesday of every month. I was even more pleased to be asked to speak at it - I'll be giving a 20 …
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OpenOffice Custom Quotes
28 April 2008

I have been driven mad for the last week or so by the silly slanty quote marks that OpenOffice insists on using instead of the normal ones. It is especially annoying when adding code snippets to presentations!

To turn these off go to:

Tools > Autocorrect > Custom Quotes tab

And until …
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Weedkiller
26 April 2008

The garden, the bit of it we haven't dug over yet, is FULL of dandelions! I didn't have time to dig them all up but I did go and pick all the flowers in an effort to stop them seeding.

They're pretty though :)

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SugarCRM SOAP Data Types
24 April 2008

Since SugarCRM only works with PHP5 in non-WSDL mode, I had to create all my calls from scratch. The SugarCRM documentation is somewhat minimal, as I may have mentioned, and I found I was mostly reading the WSDL to figure out how to format my SOAP calls. I've put together a post with working examples but I've also assembled a list of the data types needed. Click through to read more.

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SugarCRM SOAP API Examples
24 April 2008

By popular request, here are some examples that worked for me when using the SOAP API offered by SugarCRM. Its nice that there is an interface, but it isn't brilliantly documented or nearly as widely used as it should be!

SugarCRM can't talk to PHP 5 native SOAP libraries in …
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Installing VMWare Tools
21 April 2008

I recently did some work with Debian Etch virtual machines which I downloaded from the good people at thoughtpolice. Here are my notes on getting the VMWare tools added to that machine.

To be able to do anything interesting with a virtual machine, you need to install the VMWare tools …
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VMWare Virtual Machines on NTFS
17 April 2008

I keep having a problem with my virtual machines. I'm running kubuntu but the virtual machines are on an NTFS partition (because I use them from windows occasionally). The error message appears at startup and goes like this:

VMware Player unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0)

Failed to allocate page for guest RAM …
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Geekup Talk
17 April 2008

I did mention recently that I had arranged to speak at the local GeekUp group. Well, the event itself was last night and although I did have speaking nerves I think it went OK.

I've uploaded the slides I used to Slideshare, so you can find them here. The talk …
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SugarCRM SOAP API
15 April 2008

I don't know when SugarCRM, the open source CRM tool, first acquired a SOAP API but I missed it completely. I've used SugarCRM a few times, on quite a casual level, and only fell across the SOAP API because I needed it.

The first thing to note is that the …
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GeekSpeakr
14 April 2008

I saw this article on linuxchix about the new register of women speakers that has been set up by Brenda Wallace of linuxchix. The site is called geekspeakr and although it claims to be "very alpha" they are currently registering female speakers. I don't have a lot of speaking experience …
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Speaking at GeekUp in Leeds
13 April 2008

This week I will be giving a 20:20 talk at the GeekUp event in Leeds, entitled "Enterprise Web Development". The 20:20 talk format allows talks with 20 slides, with 20 seconds allowed for each slide. Wish me luck :)

If you're local to Leeds, I'd love to see you …
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