Michael Anthony Heap

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…

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…

Back in October, I was lucky enough to speak on the Sunday at PHPNW09. Personally I think it was a mediocre presentation and needs lots of work – but it was my first “proper” speaking gig. I received a lot of feedback and know what I’d do differently in future (Less about myself, more flowing…

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…