Darren Beale

It doesn’t get much better

31. July 2007

My boy Morris just got a new lunch box (bag actually) for when he goes to ‘big’ school in Sept. Let’s just cut to the chase and list the features that aforementioned lunch box has: It’s Dr Who themed (this is definitely A Good Thing if you’re a four year old with TV fixation) It’s got a [...]

Come and work with me

30. July 2007

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After recently passing the 1 year milestone I’ve decided to bite the bullet and take on a couple of extra resources at Siftware increasing the headcount to 5. The aim is to free me up to spend more time on managing this and other business interests. I don’t do this lightly as it’s a huge [...]

A Pragmatic Look At Symfony

29. July 2007

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On Thursday I presented to around 30 developers attending the July Bristol Skillswap at Bristol’s Watershed. It was my first ever public speaking gig (if you ignore some sales presentations) and I’m delighted by how well it went. The talk was a ten minute powerpoint introduction and then 45 mins of live coding - this was [...]

Flood panorama

24. July 2007

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The flooding is really getting on my tits now. Anyway, here’s a 360 panorama that I created using a great photo stitching and panorama hosting service called Clevr. This was taken on my phone, a Nokia N93, as I was standing on a wall on the side of The A4104 between Holly Green (where I live) and [...]

A great party

23. July 2007

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Kurt has got around to putting some photo’s up from his 42nd birthday party which family Beale attended the weekend before last in Wanstead, London. I have to say that I got particularly mullered, crawling into bed around 3:30am. My last recollection is Kurt delighting in turning his music up VERY LOUD to annoy his having-too-many-loud-parties [...]

The island that is Upton

23. July 2007

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I found this photo last night and it confirmed just how bloody lucky we’ve been, so far. Original photo found on the BBC website. Update: Thanks to Oli at ic360 for sending me this picture which I’ve since doctored.

Still rising?

22. July 2007

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We recently watched a guy from BBC News 24 doing an interview outside our house telling us that the levels are likley to rise, which is worrying. Anyway, here’s some photos plus more on my facebook Above: the car parked closest is outside our house

Very lucky, so far

21. July 2007

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At around 9pm Saturday evening standing at the end of our little layby on the A4104 looking over the fields into Upton and over to Malvern the scene was pretty remarkable with there being water as far as one could see.

New Symfony plugin: sfSimpleCMSPlugin

17. July 2007

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Preparing for my talk I was on the Symfony wiki and came across this: This plugin allows you to add a simple Content Management System (CMS) to your symfony application with the following features: * Uses Javascript and Ajax to provide a neat user experience * Edit zones in pages * Edit page URL (you can use / in [...]

A Symfony talk at Bristol Skillswap

16. July 2007

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So it’s public now, I’ll be doing a stand-up talk on Symfony for Bristol Skillswap on the 26th July in the Watershed.

Archive | July, 2007

It doesn’t get much better

Come and work with me

A Pragmatic Look At Symfony

Flood panorama

A great party

The island that is Upton

Still rising?

Very lucky, so far

New Symfony plugin: sfSimpleCMSPlugin

A Symfony talk at Bristol Skillswap

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