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PHP Version Roundup

Last year, Anthony Ferrara posted an excellent round up of PHP versions in the wild, specifically focusing on the volume of un-patched versions running production websites. Even as an estimate it was an eyeopening...

Have you heard about BuzzConf?

I’ve been asked a lot about BuzzConf recently. There’s a lot of buzz, but what is it! The brain child of two arguably insane chaps Rick and Ben, it’s a future technology festival complete with camping, hacking...

So long, Farewell!

I write this as a short farewell to the amazing team at NLM. I started at NLM a little over 12 months ago working in BAU support and development team for Vogue, GQ, Homelife, and Body+Soul. It’s been an amazing year and...

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On the road as evangelist

I’m extremely happy to share that I’ll be joining MYOB at the end of July as API Evangelist across Australia and New Zealand. It’s an exciting opportunity for me to help developers nation-(and NZ)-wide to help build...

Snippets of wisdom from WordCamp Brisbane

Having a great time at WordCamp Brisbane today and looking forward to tomorrow! To keep things brief, here’s a collection of notes and quotes from Day 1. Keynote: Troy Dean: Recurring Revenue is the Holy Grail Recurring...

Handy bash shortcuts for xdebug

Gary Hocking wrote up some excellent tips on getting xdebug to work smoothly with PHPStorm while developing CLI tools (for example debugging a PHPUnit test). You can read his post here I tend to work across a collection...