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Frankfurt Visit: First Impressions
05 November 2007

I'm in Germany for a few days at the IPC and since we had some time spare I've been exploring!

First of all, we took trip into Frankfurt itself yesterday. The queue for the ticket office was wildly long but some people who had a weekend travel pass and had …
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Scottish Holiday
04 November 2007

Recently we had a week's holiday with the family in Scotland, which was lovely and quite relaxing as we were right out in Dumfries almost in Stranraer and there really isn't a lot to do there! Its beautiful though and we were really lucky with the weather.

We actually took …
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I'm a PHP Abstract Winner
01 November 2007

It has been announced that I'm a winner! There was a competition on DevZone to promote their podcast series, PHP Abstract. My little podcasting howto was picked as one of the winning entries so now Cal Evans is posting me a book of his choice ... I'll be interested to see …
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Looking Forward to IPC
31 October 2007

Next week I'll be attending the International PHP Conference in Frankfurt. There aren't a lot of PHP Conferences outside of the USA and as such this one is about as local as they get (other than PHPLondon of course!).

I'm hoping to learn some new things from the various talks …
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Happy Birthday PHPWomen
27 October 2007

I knew we'd passed the anniversary mark recently but didn't know exactly when - however, its happened. Happy Birthday PHPWomen!!!

The group has brought me friendship, direction, and moral support in quantities I never dreamed existed. Long may it continue :)

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Debugging Article for PHPWomen.org
25 October 2007

I recently wrote an article on degbugging for the Best Practices thread on phpwomen.org - pop over and check it out :)

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Mysql show processlist
22 October 2007

A very quick entry today, life seems to be so busy at the moment but I have to write this down before I forget. Today I had a weird situation where mysql was consuming a lot of resources but didn't seem to be actually getting anywhere, as if something was …
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Models and Mentors
16 October 2007

The thing with a blog is that its public, so sometimes there are things that happen in my life that I don't write about here - especially when these are work-related. So instead I'd like to chatter about people I have met in my professional life who have influenced me.

Mentors …
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Charity Natty Keyrings
10 October 2007

At the knitting group I attend in Leeds (first Tuesday and third Wednesday of every month in Starbucks in Borders if you're interested) we received an invitation to join the "Knit a Natty Keyring" charity event. I can't find a website for them but here's a good description of what …
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Extending Joomla! Eventlist
08 October 2007
Recently I extended the Eventlist extension for Joomla! to allow my netball club to add the results of fixtures to their site as well as the fixtures which are managed using eventlist.

It was actually much more straightforward than I expected so here's a quick rundown of the changes:
1. add …
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A Very Narrow Howto of Podcasting
30 September 2007

I recently featured in an episode of Zend's PHP Abstract. A few people have asked how I went about preparing and recording the piece so here's a quick overview.

Choosing a Topic

This actually wasn't hard because I wanted to pick something that I have particular knowledge of. As a …
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PHP Abstract Podcast
27 September 2007

I'm a regular listener to the PHP Abstract podcast from DevZone - and this week, I'm the star! Its a short podcast about PHP and Oracle, and you can find it here. Most of the comments so far seem to mostly revolve around my accent ...

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