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PHP on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon with PDO and PDO_mysql
31 March 2008
Read moreA (very) quick tutorial on setting up mysql PDO libraries for PHP on ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon.
This version of PHP is the default one that comes with this version, 5.2.3. Check you have installed the php5-common package from aptitude as this includes the pdo.so file. If you …
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PHP London Meet and Some Heckling
08 March 2008
Read moreI've been in London on business again this week (hopefully my wild travelling will calm down a bit now) which had the nice side-effect of allowing me to get to the PHP London meetup on Thursday. It was nice to see people that I met at the conference the previous …
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PHP London 2008
01 March 2008
Read moreOn Friday was this year's PHP Conference in London and I must say it was a roaring success. The whole conference had completely gone up a gear from last year (the only other time I've attended) with a larger venue, choice of tracks, more attendees and better food.
I was …
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Offline Geeking
28 February 2008
Read moreI don't spend a lot of time hanging around with geeks in the real world. I spend a lot of time hanging around with them in virtual spaces and some of the people I have met there are my closest friends. Offline meets are ... quite different. Lots of geeks are …
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PHP London and Another Busy Week
24 February 2008
Read moreI heard last week that the PHPLondon conference is completely sold out - I had a funny feeling it might be :) I will be there, this Friday 29th February and looking forward to a great event. I'll be at the pre- and post-conference socials, if you are an online acquaintance please …
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Speaking at Dutch PHP Conference
21 February 2008
Read moreA quick announcement: I'm speaking at the Dutch PHP Conference this year, my talk is entitled "PHP Deployment with Subversion". The conference is in Amsterdam, you can find out more on its website http://phpconference.nl, and it takes place on June 14th. It'll be my first big speaking engagement …
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PHP Women at PHP London
28 January 2008
Read moreOn Feburary 29th the PHP London 2008 conference will take place in London. Things have been very busy for the guys organising, there have been a few tweaks to the schedule but its looking like things are coming together nicely. I'm all set and have booked tickets and a hotel …
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Donate to PHPWomen and Win
17 January 2008
Read moreIts exciting times at PHPWomen.org. There is the new addition of a "Donate" button, for anyone who would like to contribute to our cause. As if we aren't reason enough, the adorable Cal Evans from Devzone has given us 10 elePHPants (remember he sent me one?) to give to …
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PHP London 2008 Schedule
16 January 2008
Read moreAfter the fun I had last year at PHPLondon, I'm happy to announce that I'll be there this year as well. The talks are pretty much finalised, the schedule is online and all that's left is for everyone to get tickets and I'll see you there!
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I'm a Zend Certified Engineer
14 January 2008
Read moreI'm proud to announce that today both Kevin and I passed our ZCE exams and are Zend Certified Engineers - yay :)
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Compiling PHP Development Version
03 January 2008
Read moreI had cause this week to install an additional version of PHP onto my development server. This is because I wanted to look at the code for forkr which is targeted at PHP 5.3, which isn't out yet. So I trotted across to snaps.php.net and downloaded the …
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PHP Parcel
11 December 2007
Read moreToday I picked up the parcel that Royal Mail tried to deliver last week - and it was a box of goodies from the good Cal Evans at Zend!! A while ago Cal ran a competition and then announced that this post had been one of the winners.
Well, I've got …