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Update from ZendCon
17 September 2008
Read moreI'm currently in California, at ZendCon. I'm having way too much fun to blog but there is a writeup on the phpwomen site of my experiences so far. I've met some great people, and its long days but I'm learning a lot! I've (been) volunteered for an uncon session later …
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Using curl and PHP to talk to a REST service
15 September 2008
Read moreHaving recently written articles about curl and about writing a PHP REST server, I thought I'd complete the circle and put here a few notes on using PHP's curl wrapper as a Rest client. Also I had to look some of this up when I needed to actually do it …
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PHPNW Update
12 September 2008
Read moreWith just over a week remaining on the PHP North West Call for Papers, plans for this Manchester-based conference are fairly racing along. The call for papers closes on 21st September (in time for me arriving home from ZendCon so we can make some decisions before I shoot off again …
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PHP Rest Server (part 3 of 3)
05 September 2008
Read moreEdit: I have a newer series of articles on this topic. You can start reading here :)
This is part 3 of my article about writing a restful service server. If you haven't already, you might like to read part 1 (covering the core library and grabbing the information we need …
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PHP Rest Server (part 2 of 3)
03 September 2008
Read moreEdit: I have a newer series of articles on this topic. You can start reading here :)
This is part 2 of my rest service writing article. In part 1 we saw the library which holds the functionality we will be using, and we also handled the incoming request and captured …
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PHP Rest Server (part 1 of 3)
01 September 2008
Read moreI recently had reason to write a REST server in PHP, which was very interesting. There aren't a whole lot of resources on this topic around so I thought I'd write an outline of what I did. There is quite a lot to it so I'm publishing in multiple sections …
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PHPNW Site and Call for Papers Launched
21 August 2008
Read moreYay! The PHPNW site is now online with all the details of the PHP North West Conference to be held on November 22nd, 2008 in Manchester, UK. The conference is specific to PHP and aims to develop the skills of the developers in the local area. Look out for local …
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PHPNW 2008 - 22nd November
06 August 2008
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I'm wildly excited to be able to tell you that the PHP North West Conference now has a date and venue confirmed! The event will be at Manchester Central (apparently this used to be the GMex), on Saturday 22nd November with an early bird ticket price of £50. At the … -
Accessing Incoming PUT Data from PHP
30 July 2008
Read moreRecently I started writing a REST service. I began in the usual way, writing a php script, calling it with a GET request, accessing the variables using the PHP superglobal variable $_GET. I wrote code to handle a POST request and used the variables I found in $_POST. Then I …
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Ibuildings Seminar, Leeds
25 July 2008
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My employers, Ibuildings, have been running a series of seminars where we invite a few people (and it is a few, they are generally small events), bring some of our developers along, and have some technical tutorials, demonstrations and general discussions, and some food. The previous events have all been … -
DPC Interview
24 June 2008
Read moreSo, at the Dutch PHP Conference, they were making a video and they interviewed me. The video is at http://www.bachelor-ict.nl/dpc and it is also featured in this article on DevZone which is exciting! The video is mostly about the PHPWomen organisation, rather than my talk but …
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PHPWomen Article Competition
24 June 2008
Read moreThere's an article competition running over at phpwomen.org where thre are two Zend Studio for Eclipse licenses to give away to the best short articles submitted in the Best Practices forum before the end of July. See the announcement for more details.