A little late, but this is the first chance I’ve had to write it up. A few weeks ago, I spent the weekend at the seaside for Barcamp Blackpool, Lancashire’s first barcamp. It was the first time it had been attempted, and it went fairly well. Around 100 people registered for the weekend, but only [...]
I can’t think of any practical applications apart from the one given over at Web Developer Plus – but this is too cool not to share.
The basic example was that if you’re running a movie review blog, categories for genre and tags for actors/actresses may work, it would be nicer to have a taxonomy of [...]
I’ve been fortunate enough to be asked to hold an informal workshoppy session kinda thing at PHPNW09 on the Sunday. Lorna dropped me an email asking if I was willing to do a jQuery session similar to what I presented at UnSheffield and I jumped at the chance.
Then it really began to sink in. I’ve [...]
After reading that PHP6 might drop support for short tags, I decided to update my main Codeigniter project to use full php tags. I didn’t want to have to go through each file and update them by hand, so I set about automating it. I managed to do it using grep, awk and perl, and [...]
This is a week or two old now, but I want to save a few of my favourites.
Last night, I was trying to commit my final version of a site before it went live. For some reason, our pre-commit hook kept failing which I thought was strange as we’ve not changed it in quite a while. Fortunately, my boss was in and told me that he’d reserved commit 1999, and that he’d [...]
