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Here’s the presentation I gave to Manchester WordPress User Group last night on the first WordPress Community Summit in 2012. Here’s Jane Wells’ initial post explaining the thinking behind the summit. If you want to learn more about what’s going…
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Setting HTTP Basic Authentication based on the host name
For many of our projects, the .htaccess file is under version control… but at the same time, I need to put HTTP Basic Authentiation on just the staging site. Unfortunately the host weren’t able to do this for me, but…
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Competition in open source
“Cooperate on a technical level and compete on a business level.” Jeffrey McGuire, Acquia Seen on a slide at PHPNW12, I like this summary of how companies interrelate in open source.
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PHPNW12: Application logging
Ben Waine’s (@bwaine) talk at PHPNW12 on application logging. As usual, these are my thoughts, misunderstandings and mishearings…corrections welcome in the comments. So, can logging be cool?
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PHPNW12: Scale and Adapt / Responsive Redesign: How we’re building BBC News
John Cleveley (@jcleveley) from Auntie BBC talking about the responsive development of BBC News. Usual caveat applies, (a) these are my notes on my thoughts as well as his words, and (b) I may have misheard or misunderstood. Current site…
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