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The video of my talk at PHPNW ’11 has now been posted online at blip.tv
Enjoy!
I’ve had to reinstall OS X Lion in the past few days. Here is a list of apps that I really like (in no particular order)
Chrome / Firefox – Pretty much all that I use Safari for (sorry, apple!)
Twitter – obvious reasons
Alfred – really great app launcher (and other stuff)
Caffeine – [...]
XHTML is a tempting hypermedia format to use in a web service. A lot of the time, the sort of data that you serve using an API is very similar (if not the same) to what your website displays on its own. XHTML already has all the functionality built in for describing forms, where to [...]
Having attended a talk by David Zuelke on Saturday at the PHPNW Conference 2010, he provided a link at the end of his talk to a blog post by Ryan Tomayoko, titled ‘How I explained REST to my wife’.
It’s a brilliantly simple explanation of something that I have struggled to vocalise for a few [...]
An article that I wrote for techPortal has been published.
After lot’s of people spent a lot of time at work refactoring bad/old code after Alistair Darling announced that VAT would be reduced to 15% instead of 17.5% (and that people needed to ‘contact their software vendors to update the VAT field… riiight), I thought i’d stub out my own design for handling Price and [...]
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- Trams all going in the other direction. Where do they go? I'm only 2 stops from the end of the line! Bored of waiting... #fb
- Sigh. S20 1/10 #uksnow :-(
- @octaneglow I more meant the 'lying on the ground' definition rather than the 'deliberate untruth' definition. English is shit.
- @octaneglow :'( Is it lying?
- Praying for no snow until at least 6pm in S3… Go away. #uksnow
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