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October 8, 2010

PHPNW Conference 2010

Going to be travelling to the PHPNW Conference today (it’s tomorrow, but I don’t fancy catching the stupidly early train to get there on time), but going over the schedule is a pain… There are just too many good talks! How can I possibly go see them all?! The 11:15 time slot is easy, that’ll be Rob Allen’s talk on...

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September 30, 2010

Keeping Zend Studio’s version of Zend Framework in sync with Zend Server CE (on Windows)

Today I updated my install Zend Server CE. I have to say that the ease of installing PHP, Apache and MySQL with Zend Server CE is amazing, and then configuring PHP’s extensions and directives with the provided interface is simply a dream! (Really wish I could afford the full Zend Server, but that’s another matter…) One thing that irked me,...

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May 7, 2010

HTPC build – the parts, they be comin’

Actually, for the most part I have gotten the parts. The only thing I’m waiting on now is the CPU (together with a tube of Arctic Silver 5 compound) and the wifi card. Hopefully they’ll come soon, because not having the CPU is a bit of a show-stopper. However, the case…

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May 4, 2010

HTPC build!

A while ago my wife asked me if it were possible to remove all the DVDs we had on a couple shelves and put them in the loft and ‘somehow’ put them on to the computer so we could watch the movies… naturally my mind went straight to building or buying a media centre/HTPC. After looking around I found some...

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March 20, 2010

New baby!

Welcoming to the world my lovely little daughter, Rozalynd. Born on the 17th March and weighing in at 6lb 2oz. Apparently, I didn’t learn my lesson the first time and thought more kids and less time to code would be a good thing… 🙂

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February 10, 2010

QrCode view helper

You see QrCodes popping up every now and again on sites, in publications and the like. I think they can be a very handy way for people with cameras on their phones to get a url or other content on to their phone very easily. (I’m thinking more about those people without iPhones or full keyboards, of course!) If you’ve...

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February 1, 2010

Today’s date

Today’s date has a lovely palindromic quality to it: 01022010 Cool. 🙂

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January 28, 2010

Adding new items to RSS feed – it shouldn’t be this hard!

I have just started to use the Zend_Feed related components in earnest and am really liking the Zend_Feed_Writer (new to ZF 1.10.0). So what I wanted to do was created an RSS feed file is one didn’t exist and then keep updating that file as-and-when new items came in. Seems a really easy and simple thing to do, right? That,...

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January 18, 2010

Zend_Form decorators webinar

If you’re not sure about Zend_Form’s decorators, what they are or how to use them, then Matthew Weier O’Phinney has the webinar for you: http://www.zend.com/webinar/Framework/webinar-leveraging-zend_form-decorators-20091216.flv It’s a great introduction to decorators, how to implement them and how to do slightly more complex things with them. Well worth a watch!

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December 24, 2009

Same height for elements – now with jQuery goodness!

A while ago I wrote a post on how to use the Prototype js library to make elements on your page have the same height. For those too lazy to read that post, it can be summarised something like this:

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