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Your Open Source Stories
21 June 2010
Read moreIn this post, I am asking for your help and input, although it might seem like a post about nothing in particular to begin with. Please keep reading!
Last month, I gave a talk at TEK-X entitled "Open Source Your Career". Personally I think that a lot of the high …
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DPC Retrospective
17 June 2010
Read moreI spent most of last week and the weekend in (rather rainy) Amsterdam for the Dutch PHP Conference. This is an event that is in its 4th year, although I was attending for only the 3rd time. Two years ago, I spoke at DPC - my first conference talk. This year …
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Magic Methods on Think Vitamin
07 June 2010
Read moreI'm happy to announce that my new post 9 Magic Methods for PHP is live on Think Vitamin this morning. I've written a series of posts about OOP for the site, with a few more to come, and these "underscore-underscore" methods make for some very neat tricks with PHP, which …
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The Unavoidable PHPWomen
04 June 2010
Read moreI'm subscribed to a number of women-in-tech mailing lists because, well, I'm a woman in tech. Every few months or so a thread will come round about a technical conference with no female speakers. The issues around this are many, lengthy, and not something I want to write about here …
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DPC10 Has an Uncon
02 June 2010
Read moreAs the Host of the Dutch PHP Conference this year, you can imagine I'm squeaky-excited about the whole event. This story goes right back to last year though, when someone (Ivo? Cal? I don't know who) conceived the idea of including an unconference in this year's event. DPC is easily …
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Web Services Tutorial on TechPortal
01 June 2010
Read moreI'm very pleased to say that today I have a a post about web services for PHP developers published on techPortal! OK so I edit techPortal so this is the written equivalent of introducing myself as a speaker but I enjoyed writing the post and I hope it'll be a …
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TEK-X: Conference Report
26 May 2010
Read moreIts been quiet around here recently, partly because I have been really busy and partly because I was in Chicago last week for the wonderful TEK-X conference. It would be very cool to get to go skipping around the world to conferences, however people paying for my airfares do seem …
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Podcast: How and Why to Become a Speaker
10 May 2010
Read moreThis is a podcast version of my rant-in-the-bar advice to anyone thinking about speaking, or wondering how to begin. Personally I think many more people could be sharing their expertise at events than actually do so, and I would really like anyone who wants to get involved to have a …
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Accessing the Magento Web API
04 May 2010
Read moreI've been working with the Magento Web API lately, and the first problem I ran into was actually getting access to it. Contrary to its reputation, I found some perfectly good documentation outlining how to connect to the service and use it. I thought I was on to a winner …
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Speaking at PHPNW May
28 April 2010
Read moreNext week I'm speaking at the PHPNW User Group in Manchester on Tuesday Evening, 4th May - full details of the event are on upcoming.org. The talk isn't directly about PHP though; I'll be giving my "Open Source Your Career" talk, discussing how contributing to the community can really help …
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Wordpress Plugin for Joind.In
14 April 2010
Read moreIn case anyone thinks I've gone joind.in crazy after already writing about its import functionality this week, I really haven't. Its just that some months of pulling a few things together have finally bourne fruit and so I can actually write about them now they are done! The good …
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Importing Data to Joind.In
12 April 2010
Read moreUpdate! This post is now outdated - the import functionality on joind.in has been replaced with a CSV import.
As a conference organiser I work extensively with the site joind.in, which allows attendees to comment on sessions at a conference. Recently the site has also started supporting sessions with …