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My OS X apps

By blongden On November 19, 2011 · Add Comment
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 – [...]
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xhtml as a hypermedia format

By blongden On October 2, 2011 · Add Comment
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 [...]
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Speaking at PHPNW 2011

By blongden On June 30, 2011 · Add Comment
I’m delighted to have been accepted to speak on REST and HATEOAS at the PHPNW conference. This marks the start of my speaking ‘career’, something that I have wanted to kick start for some time. The subject matter is something that I am very interested in, and it gives me a chance (and a focus [...]
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PHP on Azure

By blongden On February 13, 2011 · 2 Comments
When I first started out playing with PHP a number of years ago, I did it on my home PC running windows. I remember manually setting up apache (I never tried with IIS), configuring php to work with it and getting a mysql database up and running. The whole process was time consuming and frustrating [...]
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Zend 5.3 certification

By blongden On November 7, 2010 · 1 Comment
Hurrah! It’s probably about time I did this… Zend Yellow Pages :-)
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Ryan Tomayako – How I explained REST to my wife

By blongden On October 11, 2010 · Add Comment
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 [...]
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Buildings a Continuous Integration Server for PHP with Hudson

By blongden On October 4, 2010 · Add Comment
An article that I wrote for techPortal has been published. http://techportal.ibuildings.com/2010/09/20/building-a-continuous-integration-server-for-php-with-hudson/
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PHPNW TestFest 2010

By blongden On August 12, 2010 · Add Comment
I am very pleased to announce this years PHPNW TestFest over at MadLab in Manchester. The event will take place on Saturday 11th September from 12pm until sometime around 5-6pm. Lunch will be provided (courtesy of our sponsor, Ibuildings), and I daresay we may wish to make an bit of an evening of it at [...]
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LOLCODE and PHP

By blongden On June 12, 2010 · Add Comment
As a proof of concept i’ve been working on a small LOLCODE (lolcode.com) interpreter thing… for PHP. Yes, this is a basic implementation of LOLCODE (an interpreted language) written in PHP (an interpreted language). At the moment there’s enough implemented to parse and run the following… HAI. BTW THIS IS A COMMENT. VISIBLE “OH HAI, [...]
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ORM ORLY?

By blongden On November 21, 2009 · 2 Comments
I’m regularly thinking about how to represent data in a relational database in OO PHP5 that doesn’t make me walk away feeling like i’ve just created something that smells bad. The key thing for me is that my code should not care that the data is coming from a relational database. This poses one or [...]
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