Michael Anthony Heap

Michael Anthony Heap. 21 year old student at Leeds Metropolitan University. Programmer, PHP, Javascript, mySQL and a whole host of other mini-experiences (Python, Perl, Java). Internet addict, barcamp attendee and Left4Dead affectionado. Follow me on twitter

Working with DOMDocument

Nowadays, most of the services we need to access programatically provide an API or an RSS feed of their data for us to pull in and parse. However, some sites still don’t provide the data, be it because they’re a bit behind the times or they just don’t want to make it easy for us…

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PHP 5.3: Anonymous (Lambda) Functions

A month or so ago I started work at a company called LiveLenz, who are a realtime sales provider for various POS systems. The project I’ve been working on is called Sublive, which is a piece if reporting software for Subway franchises. As a part of that system, I needed to provide detailed stats for…

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Barcamp Blackpool: Round 2

This weekend was the second barcamp organised by the lovely Gemma Cameron in Blackpool. Blackpool being Blackpool, there’s no shortage of cheap B+B’s so I headed up on the Friday night and checked in at Balmoral like I did last year. Rich Quick decided he’d organise a bit of something on the Friday night at…

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Designing for the Web

I’m a firm believer that if you’re naturally a backend coder, you most probably suck at interface/graphics design and vice versa (unless of course, you’re Shaun Inman). Being a backend guy myself, I know that we just don’t think the same way as frontend dev’s. However, that doesn’t mean that we’ll never be able to…

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