Category: php

Book Review: RESTful PHP
02 January 2009

I was recently contacted by the friendly people at Packt Publishing to ask if I'd like a copy of a new addition to their catalogue - RESTful PHP Web Services

, by Samisa Abeysinghe.

When I received and unpacked the book, it was a little lighter than I had expected, however REST …
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PHP Advent Article Published
05 December 2008

I was wildly excited a few weeks ago to receive an email inviting me to be one of the contributors to this year's PHP Advent. Actually the biggest kick was seeing my name in a list of PHP luminaries! The article was published today, you can find it at http …
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Zend_Paginator on Ibuildings Blog
01 December 2008

In case anyone thought it was a bit quiet around here - that's because I've been working on a few other bits and pieces! Today I posted an article about Zend_Paginator to the Ibuildings blog. Do stop by and have a read - and read the comments as well as there are …
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PHPNW Post-match Analysis
24 November 2008

Last weekend saw a crowd descend on central Manchester in the UK for the first PHP North West conference. We had almost 180 attendees, 12 sessions, 16 speakers, and lots of fun. The day itself went off very smoothly and although I didn't manage to see many of the sessions …
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PHP North West Conference in Manchester - Next Week!
13 November 2008

Its been creeping up on us for a while but now PHPNW is almost upon us! PHP people will be arriving from all sorts of places and coming together to attend this event. The schedule is full of excellent talks by a selection of speakers - and we'll round the day …
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My PHPWomen Interview on Sun's SDN Podcast
06 November 2008

I was recently interviewed by Cassandra Clark from Sun about PHPWomen - they've put the interview live now and you can find it at http://blogs.sun.com/SDNChannel/entry/introduction_to_phpwomen_org

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Locale-Sensitive Dates in PHP
05 November 2008

I am working on a site at the moment whose front end is in Dutch - and for an English-only speaker, its an education! Most things default to English and I had no idea how to use PHP to work with other languages.

In particular I needed dates like "Donderdag 23 …
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Introduction to Zend_Db
31 October 2008

I recently worked on a project which was based on Zend Framework - I haven't worked with it before and I was temporarily confused by the existing implementation of some of the database-level stuff. After much reading and untangling of code, I'm now pretty clear how this should look, so here's …
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PHPNW: One Month Countdown
21 October 2008

|image1|In a month's time I'll be in Manchester, ready for the PHP North West conference. The conference is a one-day event (Saturday, 22nd November), although the social side of things will kick off the night before. Tickets are 50 GBP for the early bird, 35 GBP for students and …
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PHPNW Tickets On Sale
06 October 2008

Tickets are now on sale for PHPNW - the PHP Conference in Manchester, UK, on November 22nd. This is a conference aimed at bringing together and promoting the amazing wealth of local talent and activity in PHP within the North West and wider area. The schedule is online already and tickets …
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Schedule for PHPNW
26 September 2008

Today saw the publication of the schedule for the PHP North West Conference - you can see it in full on their site. There are some great speakers lined up - Johannes Schlüter, Rob Allen and Stefan Koopmanschap to name just a few that immediately jump out of the page. Tickets aren't …
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Excitement at Ibuildings
25 September 2008

I didn't post much of a wrap-up after ZendCon - partly because that trip ran into the start of another one and I only got home properly yesterday, and partly because something happened in California that I couldn't talk about until now. One thing I did want to mention is that …
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