Category: php

Compiling PHP Development Version
03 January 2008

I 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

Today 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 …
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PHPWomen Podcast
29 November 2007

I'm wildly excited about a virtual event scheduled for next week, its the PHPWomen PHP|Abstract. Some of the main members, Elizabeth, Elizabeth, Ligaya and Sara are all going to chat with Cal Evans about the group, with live participation on IRC.

Actually I wonder if Cal knows what he …
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IPC Report on PHPWomen
21 November 2007

I was asked by the phpwomen group before I went to IPC whether I would do them a write-up when I got back. I agreed and its online: http://www.phpwomen.org/wordpress/2007/11/21/ipc-report/.

There is even a a photo of me - thanks Sebastian :)

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PDO for PHP on Ubuntu Edgy Eft
14 November 2007

Today I was asked to add PDO support to PHP on our development box, which I thought was running Ubuntu Feisty Fawn. The first problem is that it's not running Feisty Fawn, its running Edgy Eft, which is an older version. The next problem is that the PDO libraries weren't …
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Frankfurt Visit: First Impressions
05 November 2007

I'm in Germany for a few days at the IPC and since we had some time spare I've been exploring!

First of all, we took trip into Frankfurt itself yesterday. The queue for the ticket office was wildly long but some people who had a weekend travel pass and had …
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I'm a PHP Abstract Winner
01 November 2007

It has been announced that I'm a winner! There was a competition on DevZone to promote their podcast series, PHP Abstract. My little podcasting howto was picked as one of the winning entries so now Cal Evans is posting me a book of his choice ... I'll be interested to see …
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Looking Forward to IPC
31 October 2007

Next week I'll be attending the International PHP Conference in Frankfurt. There aren't a lot of PHP Conferences outside of the USA and as such this one is about as local as they get (other than PHPLondon of course!).

I'm hoping to learn some new things from the various talks …
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Textpattern to Serendipity Migration Scripts
30 October 2007

Not terribly riveting reading but this is the story of my migration from textpattern (version 4.0.4) to serendipity (version 1.1.3). This includes some PHP scripts I used to fix some problems on import.

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Happy Birthday PHPWomen
27 October 2007

I knew we'd passed the anniversary mark recently but didn't know exactly when - however, its happened. Happy Birthday PHPWomen!!!

The group has brought me friendship, direction, and moral support in quantities I never dreamed existed. Long may it continue :)

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Debugging Article for PHPWomen.org
25 October 2007

I recently wrote an article on degbugging for the Best Practices thread on phpwomen.org - pop over and check it out :)

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Extending Joomla! Eventlist
08 October 2007
Recently I extended the Eventlist extension for Joomla! to allow my netball club to add the results of fixtures to their site as well as the fixtures which are managed using eventlist.

It was actually much more straightforward than I expected so here's a quick rundown of the changes:
1. add …
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