Are you ready for WordPress 3.2? The next version of the popular blogging software is due to be released soon and has higher minimum requirements than previous versions, including: PHP…
Once again the PHP NW Conference is coming to Manchester in October, and the schedule is now online. All of the talks look interesting, although having realised that they run…
If you run a UK website which collects any sort of address information, you will no doubt have come across the potentially thorny subject of postcodes. Specifically, you will want…
Nelson Minar has an interesting post on username restrictions in web applications (via rc3.org). I agree that email addresses are better than usernames, as they can be remembered easily, rarely…
Last week I launched Pub Gateway, a directory of pubs in the British Isles which focuses on precise geographical data and no intrusive advertising. It's written entirely in PHP with…
Over the weekend I released the first version of flickr Lookup, a PHP library for accessing flickr via its API. It's a simple wrapper which turns API requests into PHP…
I've just released the first version of MaPit Lookup, a PHP library for MaPit, the mapping information service from the chaps at mySociety. It's a simple wrapper which turns MaPit…
I've been trying out a few frameworks recently for a couple of projects, and this week I've been playing around with Zend Framework. These are my thoughts from having gone through…