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Speaking at PHP Barcelona
25 September 2009
Read moreI'm delighted to announce I'll be speaking at the PHP Barcelona Conference in October. This is a new speaking topic for me, although I've been working and blogging in this area for a while, with a talk entitled "Working with Web Services". Its a very technical session looking at different …
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Speaking at PHPNW09
04 September 2009
Read moreI have experience of PHP conferences from all possible angles - as an attendee, as a speaker and as an organiser. At PHP North West this year I will be taking this to new heights and combining all three roles into a single one-day conference. I have a speaking slot at …
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PHPNW: Schedule and Crowd-Sourcing
28 August 2009
Read morePlans for the second annual PHP North West conference (Manchester, 10th October) are coming along rather nicely, so I thought I'd share an update and some headline news. First of all - tickets cost 50 GBP + VAT. This is about 57 euros or 81 dollars. I don't know where else you …
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PHPWomen Merchandise
24 August 2009
Read moreA few weeks ago, phpwomen.org put out an announcement about merchandise. When we first started the group (almost 3 years ago, believe it or not) we printed t-shirts and gave them out at conferences. Once the various founder members and a few benefactors had paid for a set of …
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Adding PUT variables to Request Object in Zend Framework
17 August 2009
Read moreWhen I wrote recently about testing web services within Zend Framework, I missed out a really key piece of information! I didn't explain how I was reading the PUT vars in my controller code in the first place - so I'll rectify that omission now.
Its very simple: I have extended …
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Using Zend_Test for Web Services
13 August 2009
Read moreRecently I had cause to develop a web service and so I wrote some tests to go along with it - or I was about to. When I looked at the asserts available in Zend_Test, they were all geared towards HTML/CSS output - but we can test just as effectively on …
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5 Ways to Make Friends at a Technical Conference
03 August 2009
Read moreThese are my top tips for getting along and meeting new people at a technical conference.
Take an extension cable
Conferences are notorious for having too few and too short power leads, and everyone needs to recharge laptops, especially in hands-on sessions like tutorial day. Having an extension cable will …
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PHP 5.3 Feature: Late Static Binding
29 July 2009
Read moreWith the release of PHP 5.3 comes the functionality "late static binding", a feature which I've been impatient to see for quite some time! This is something a lot of developers have been puzzled by in earlier versions of PHP 5, probably without being aware it had a name …
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PHPUnit with Zend_Controller_Action_Helper
23 July 2009
Read moreI'm currently working on a REST service built in Zend Framework and I ran into problems very quickly - when I tried to write the first unit test for the first action in fact! PHPUnit was just dying when I asked it to dispatch() any URL which didn't return HTML, it …
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PUTting data fields with PHP cURL
17 July 2009
Read moreThis is a little post about how to PUT multiple data fields using the PHP cURL extension. Why I wanted to do this in the first place is beyond the scope of this post, since its quite a long story. The curl command line allows data fields to be sent …
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PHPNW: Site, Tickets and CfP
03 July 2009
Read moreThe date for PHPNW was announced a few weeks ago as Saturday 10th October 2009, and now we've got all the official bits and bobs to go with it! In outline:
The website: http://conference.phpnw.org.uk
Tickets: http://conference.phpnw.org.uk/register. Early bird pricing until September …
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Status Codes for Web Services
02 July 2009
Read moreThis the last entry in a mini series on points to consider when designing and building web services. So far there have been posts on error feedback for web services, auth mechanisms for web services, saving state in web services and using version parameters with web services.
Unlike the other …