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New Host Online

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The move over has ‘in theory’ gone to plan, if anyone spots anything unusual then drop me a line. The new blog is running under Zend Platform so it will be interesting what performance we get and what bugs/warnings/errors/explosions […]

1Sep2007 | admin | 6 comments | Continued

Meetings and Mentions

I was down at OpenCoffee London again yestarday and met up with another great random bunch of interesting people. First off Tony from XCalibre was talking up their new scalable processing and storage platform, it is the same setup as Amazon S3 & EC2 except XCalibre have a decent SLA (Amazon’s sucks) plus they have […]

31Aug2007 | Nick Halstead | 2 comments | Continued

First Podcast

My first podcast went up on the Zend Developer Zone today, many thanks to Cal Evans for bugging me until I did it. The podcast covers the Zend Framework ACL (Access Control List) which I have made heavy use of in our current projects and I wanted to share how you can use it as […]

16Aug2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued

Facebook PHP Code Leaked

I have been entertaining friends and family this weekend so when I finally opened up Google reader it was with great surprise that the first story that come up is about Facebook having leaked some of its source code. My immediate reaction was that it was some form of hoax and that the code that […]

12Aug2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued

Developer Links for 05/08/2007

Web Based IDE
This is my favorite link for this week. A online IDE that lets you code simple programs within a web page. Would make a great teaching tool, supports Basic, Pascal, Ansi C, Perl, Lisp + JavaScript. Well worth a look.
Linux Distro timeline
A really great visualization of how each Linux distro was created and […]

5Aug2007 | Nick Halstead | 5 comments | Continued

BarCamp - MiniBar

A presentation underway
We are getting closer to announcing the project I have been working on so I went into socializing mode on friday and popped down to the monthly Barcamp - Minibar event. The overall plan was to start making some contacts and also to get some feedback on an offshoot project.
For those who […]

29Jul2007 | Nick Halstead | 10 comments | Continued
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