The list

The list

A few cool things are going on: On Thursday and Friday I gave a PHP/MySQL training course, and each of the students signed up to PHPWM. Glad to see the group is growing. I have recently been asked to sit on the EuroOSCON Commitee, so this should be good fun. Last...
Price Of Freedom

Price Of Freedom

Shock horror people, I have put a new song on here. After a bit of a hiatus away from my own music, I finally got round to recording and mixing a song I have had in my head for a while. The song is called Price Of Freedom. —–
Musical baton

Musical baton

Been busy this week building some code for some different things. Much of this is to be used in the PHP and MySQL courses that I am doing, one of which begins tomorrow morning. I have been learning a lot about databases recently. When programming in PHP, I tend to...
Dog evolution

Dog evolution

OK, for fans of the cute dog photos, here are a few more. The other day we decided to bath Banger for the first time and he was a little unsure of the water: After his bath (well, sink), we dried him with a hairdryer on a cool-ish setting and he fluffed up: It seems...
Wobbles and Bluetooth

Wobbles and Bluetooth

What a hectic day or so. Firstly, last night I was fiddling around with getting Luminocity working. This 3D OpenGL driven window manager contains the so called wobbly windows that have been discussed across the net, and last night I got it working. Here is it in...
Servicing the services

Servicing the services

Well, my experiments into web services have borne fruit. I successfully managed to connect to the Amazon web services and perform a query. The code was written in PHP and I used the PEAR SOAP extension. The basic premise is that you create a WSDL client with the SOAP...