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DPC - Dutch PHP Conference June 2009
09 April 2009
Read moreI keep getting asked about the Dutch PHP Conference so here's a quick outline about the event.
The conference is in Amsterdam, on 11th to 13th June 2009. Thursday 11th is the tutorial day, Friday and Saturday are the main conference days. The schedule is entirely in English and it …
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PHPNW Test Fest Event - May 9th 2009
01 April 2009
Read moreThe PHPNW user group are taking part in this year's PHP Test Fest. Our event will be on 9th May - you can sign up to attend (limited places so do let us know) on the upcoming page for this event: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2299548/
The idea behind Test …
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PHP Training Courses from Ibuildings
27 March 2009
Read more|image1|Ibuildings (my employers) have announced their public courses in the UK - this is very exciting as its been in the planning for a while and of course it means more people can be using PHP to build excellent applications. There are more details on the Ibuildings site of the …
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Wordpress Automatic Update Asking for FTP
20 March 2009
Read moreI have a wordpress installation that I look after (in fact its phpwomen.org) and since upgrading it to 2.7 I see that it has lots of "click here to upgrade" buttons, both for the core code and even to upgrade and install plugins. However when I click on …
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Sortable Views in Drupal 6
04 March 2009
Read moreI'm completely new to Drupal, I've heard a lot about it and I know some evangelists, but I've never had reason to use it - until now. So, I might be using the wrong words for things or not explaining things too well, but I'm going to record this because it …
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PHPUK Conference (London) 2009
02 March 2009
Read moreLast week I was in London for the annual PHP conference held by the PHP London User Group. One thing that makes this conference different from any others I've attended is that its organised by volunteers. Another thing which makes it unique is that I have attended more than one …
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techPortal - new PHP developer resource
16 February 2009
Read moreThere is a new resource for PHP developers available from today - techPortal from Ibuildings. First, I must add the disclaimer - Ibuildings are my employers, so I've known about this project for a while. I helped set up the site and the first tech article on there is mine. With those …
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PHPWomen "I am" Competition
09 February 2009
Read morePHPWomen have announced a new competition on their website - to complete a sentence "I am a phpwomen member because..." in a post on their forums to win a prize! Already people are posting and the prize is a certificate to spend at php|architect's site. Pop over to the forums …
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DPC 2009 - Currently Calling for Papers
06 February 2009
Read moreThe Call for Papers for the Dutch PHP Conference 2009 is currently open - with only a week left, it closes next week on Friday 13th. I went to this conference in Amsterdam for the first time last year, when I was still relatively new in my job at Ibuildings. This …
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OSCON CfP
29 January 2009
Read moreThe OSCON Call for Participation is open for another couple of days and I've finally got over my nerves and submitted some talks to them. I haven't been to this conference before, and couldn't afford to send myself - but I took a look at last year's schedule and knew I …
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Speaking at php|tek
08 January 2009
Read moreI'm delighted (and somewhat stunned) to announce that I'll be speaking at php|tek in Chicago this May - you might also like to see the full timetable. This is one of the big events of the year and I was so desperate to attend that I gave the organisers a …
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Published in php|architect
06 January 2009
Read moreI'm very excited to be able to say that I was published in php|architect, in December's issue. I had the /etc column, where I wrote a bit about phpwomen.org and what we're up to these days. As I've wanted to write for them for ages, I was very …