Posted in Adventures and Courses on October 22, 2007
Hard work. Kurt and I attempted to see the entire piece last night at the Barbican. We managed the first half, which was 1.5 hours, and whilst being in awe of the complexity and the sheer effort being
Posted in dev-sys, Web / Meetups on September 28, 2007
I was in Bristol for a few days earlier this week for Skillswap (which my company sponsored) and the UWE Web Developer Conference; both were excellent events so kudos to Laura and Dan & team
Posted in Development, php on August 16, 2007
Here on our dev servers, we turn PHP error reporting full on so we get to know of any issues with our code well before it hits production (where errors are turned off). This does, however, cause
Posted in Development, php on August 15, 2007
Francios a core member of the Symfony team recently blogged about the 20 most popular plugins of the Symfony project based upon page views. That list
Posted in Web / Meetups on August 14, 2007
I recently heard of a new workshop on The Multipack's forum called Transcending CSS being presented by CSS don Andy Clarke of Britpack, and this book fame. Not sure what bribes they used to get him
Posted in Development on August 2, 2007
I was recently asked if I'd sucessfully got the Symfony plugin sfSimpleCMS working and I'm afraid my answer was no. I had tried briefly when preparing for my talk, but something didn't work and I
Posted in Featured, Web / Meetups on July 29, 2007
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
Posted in Adventures and Courses on June 18, 2007
I just got back from my third visit to the Le Mans 24 hour race, and it was a good one. For the previous two years, we had circa 30-degree temperatures with no cloud cover, and it really got
Posted in Web / Meetups on June 3, 2007
On Thursday, I attended the Google Developer Day 2007 event in London, and overall, I'd say it was worth the day out of the office. My headline excuse for going was that I'm working on a project that
Posted in dev-sys on June 3, 2007
As someone doing more and more frontend development using javascript I'm trying to shore up my knowledge a bit. For example some of the shortcut syntax I wasn't sure about and I knew I could do with