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Memcache Follow-Up Article on Techportal
22 June 2009
Read moreToday techportal published a new article of mine on their site - New Memcached Extension for PHP. Its a sequel to the article I wrote for them earlier in the year entitled Getting Started with Memcache. At the same time I wrote that first article, Andrei Zmievski released a new extension …
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Dutch PHP Conference
15 June 2009
Read moreOften when I attend PHP conferences, I blog as I go along, upload a few photos and generally share with others who aren't in attendance. At DPC this year I completely failed to do any of the above - no excuses, I was just having too much fun :)
I travelled over …
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DPC09: Looking forward to the Dutch PHP Conference
06 June 2009
Read moreThis time next week I'll be full of new ideas and enthusiasm as the Dutch PHP Conference 2009 will have ended. Last year was the first time I attended the event and I have memories of a great crowd and some fabulous sessions, also my first experience speaking at a …
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PHPNW09 - PHP Conference in Manchester
03 June 2009
Read moreLast night at the PHPNW user group we announced this year's conference - PHPNW09. We don't have a lot of detail but here is a run-down of all the information I have:
- Date: Saturday 10th October 2009
- Location: Manchester Conference Centre. It's a new venue but just as central and actually …
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php|tek 2009: Quick Round-Up
27 May 2009
Read moreLast week I was at the php|tek 2009 conference in Chicago. This was a really exciting trip for me - only my second conference as a speaker and the first time I'd attended any of the MTA conferences. I was absolutely delighted to have three of my sessions accepted into …
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Linux-Fu For PHP Developers
22 May 2009
Read moreThe slides from my talk at php|tek are now online - Linux-Fu for PHP Developers. Thanks to everyone who attended and left feed back for me on joind.in. Feel free to leave a comment if you were there or if you have any questions about the slides!*
* Unless the …
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php|tek 2009: Tutorial Day
19 May 2009
Read moreI'm currently attending the php|tek conference in Chicago. Today is tutorial day, and I delivered a half-day session with Matthew Weier O'Phinney of Zend. Our session was entitled "Practical SVN for PHP Developers" and the slides are online. The session seems to have gone over pretty well - this is …
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PHPNW TestFest
10 May 2009
Read moreYesterday saw the PHP North West User Group hold their first Test Fest in Manchester. As a relatively young user group (at less than a year old) with not a single @php.net email address between us, this was an ambitious venture. Scott MacVicar very kindly offered to come and …
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Looking Forward to php|tek
07 May 2009
Read moreThis year I'm excited to be heading to the php|tek conference in Chicago (May 19th to 22nd), and even more excited to be going there as a speaker. Over the course of the conference I will present or co-present three sessions; one tutorial and two talks.
The tutorial session …
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Testing PHP
04 May 2009
Read moreI'm organising the PHP Test Fest that is happening in Manchester next weekend, and in preparation I decided it was high time to sit down and figure out what testing PHP is all about. People kept telling me it was easy but I had no clear picture of how all …
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How To Use Salts and md5 in PHP
14 April 2009
Read moreThe MD5 hashing algorithm gets bad press because "its insecure". This post is not about that; MD5 is a hashing algorithm and is a good way of generating a representation of something, without actually needing the thing itself. I was asked about its use the other day so I thought …
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Speaking at phpGG
10 April 2009
Read moreNext week I'm passing through the Ibuildings office in Utrecht on business. During the 36 hours or so that I'll be there, the Dutch PHP User Group, phpGG have kindly extended an invitation to speak at a one-off user group meeting they are arranging. Well, I have a talk that …