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Easter Chick
08 April 2007

Happy Easter! I’m away for a long weekend but this post was pre-recorded. I handmade my mum’s easter gift and wrote about it, but can’t publish until she’ll have got it!

Its a duckling from this pattern – knitted with fluffy wool on four needles. I used …
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Kbuntu Add Programs
05 April 2007

I’m just getting started with running a linux machine as my main computer at work (yay!), setting everything up today. My tip for installing linux the first time is to get the repositories of software added so you can install more things though “adept” (the program that runs when …
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9 Steps to PHP Documentation Heaven
02 April 2007
1. Download PHPDocumentor and uncompress it into a directory inside your web root.
2. Access the web interface by going to phpdoc.php in the newly extracted directory
3. Enter the directory you would like to document
4. Enter the directory the output should appear in (this needs to exist and be writable by …
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Form Name ID and Label Tags
30 March 2007
Just a quick one, but something that confuses me often.
```
<input name="input_name" id="input_identifier ....
```
name is what the POST request will see the field called

id is what the label tag will use to figure out which field it belongs to.
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Improvised Chicken
27 March 2007

That title makes it sound like a recipe, but actually its a bird! I saw a pattern linked off CRAFT which was gorgeous so I rushed out and bought some snowflake yarn in yellow. When I came to read the pattern it was quite complicated and I was a bit …
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Can blogging get you killed?
27 March 2007

I’ve just spent the last two hours reading through (this is a disturbing link, you have been warned) Kathy Sierra’s post about the death threats she has been receiving.

Death threats.

One of the most talented and inspirational writers of our time is currently locked inside their house …
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Want to Meet Mantis?
26 March 2007

Bug trackers are great. Keeping track of lots of little niggly things is tedious and hard to do even if you have pink post-it notes, which I do. But for a software development team there is no subsitute for a decent bug tracker [1].

That’s why I’m trying …
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PHP Best Practices
26 March 2007

There’s a new thread started over at phpwomen.org about best practices for programming with PHP, which will make interesting reading for anyone looking to improve their skills. I’ve been really brave and contributed one of the articles, PHPDoc: Comments are your friends.

People are all contributing a …
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PHP Throwdown Icon
23 March 2007

As you may remember we participated in the PHP Throwdown a while ago. Well Elizabeth has sent out the icons to competitors who successfully got through the 24 hours and submitted something which vaguely conformed to the rules. You can see ours on the left :)

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Does PHP know itself?
23 March 2007

I’ve run into a problem with a framework I’ve been contributing to. It has a bunch of objects, which look a lot like rows in database tables. So there are pages and each page object is a row in the “pages” table in the database, with a primary …
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Hopeless Homeless
22 March 2007

I may have mentioned that we’re buying a house, or houses … if that doesn’t sound familiar you should probably catch up and then come back to this page. So, to recap, the house isn’t falling down.

What I didn’t mention, because I didn’t know when …
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One Pair of Fingerless Mitts
20 March 2007

Just finished – and just in time as we’ve had snow here the last few days – my latest project! I knitted “fetching” from knitty.com, here they are:

(and yes, one little finger is always a bit crooked. The other one matched it until it got hit by a high-speed …
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