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You could be the next Miles Dyson

Posted by on September 5, 2012 2 comments

Back in February I attended the PHPUK Conference in london. There were some great talks on offer, one of the most inspiring being Ian Barber’s Teaching your machine to find fraudsters. It can be caught here if you’re interested in …

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Global installation of Composer on windows

Posted by on September 3, 2012 1 comment

I’ve been tinkering with composer recently (on windows) and I noticed there was no simple way to install it system wide. Typically the composer.phar would live within the root of your project directory and so you’d manage your dependencies from …

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The Enum Conundrum

Posted by on July 4, 2012 7 comments

So a user signs up and I want to store a status that reflects their account, or at least an identifier representing that status. Their account could be active, disabled (temporarily), pending approval or maybe deleted. Should I use an …

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Zend Paginator Example

Posted by on April 18, 2012 2 comments

One of the reasons why zend framework has been so popular is due to all the hard work put in to make sure components are extremely configurable. Sure there are default behaviours, but nothing is assumed and anything that needs …

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In ORM’s Defence

Posted by on April 10, 2012 10 comments

For some reason, as of late, I can’t seem to attend any user group or conference without a speaker slating ORM’s. Several speakers at the PHP UK Conference this year expressed their disapproval, as well as the speaker at this …

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Drive Forms from Doctrine Entities

Posted by on March 21, 2012 11 comments

FormFactory – Driving Doctrine 1.2 / 2.x Mappings into Zend_Form objects On a few of my previous projects I found myself creating more form classes than I’d like. And after the 30th one I figured there had to be a …

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PHP UK Conference

Posted by on March 6, 2012 2 comments

In late february I attended the annual PHP UK Conference hosted by the chaps that run the PHP London user group and sponsored by Automattic. I had a great time at the two day event and got to catch up with several colleagues from the …

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jQuery UK conference

Posted by on February 22, 2012 No comments

I don’t consider myself a front end developer by a long stretch, however, I believe any web developer worth their salt should be versed in technologies both server and client side. Back when I started out building web content adding behaviours to …

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