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PHPNW09: Weekend of PHP and Fun
29 September 2009
Read moreHaving just put the finishing touches to the schedule for PHPNW09, I'm realising just how excited I am about this event coming up in less than a fortnight. This is the second year we've run the event, and its bigger and better than last year - and I know what a …
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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 …