Hopefully it will still be available in the end. Oh well still, Come along to PHPNW10 Conference and see my talk on Zend_Tool

See you all there

The Course will be held on a Sunday and will split over two consecutive weekends.
Day 1: HTML
This will cover HTML, What it is, how it’s used and what you can do with it.
It will also include covering of some of the currently usable HTML5 tags.

Day 2: CSS
This will cover CSS, What it is, how it works and how that applies to HTML.
We shall also cover a smidgeon of CSS3.

Provisionally this course will take place in October.
Please do keep an eye out for more information, I shall be updating with more details as I have them

If you haven’t got your ticket yet, please do. The Conference is not only a great way to learn new things but it’s also a great place to socialise with your fellow developers.

I Hope to see you all there.

On My Workbench at the moment is an update to the keyz jQuery plugin which adds all but the keychain functionality to the system. Also have been working on a multi page form component for Zend Framework.

Still working on working out the kinks in both before making a release.

Yesterday (May 4th — Star Wars Day .. lol) saw me sign the Zend Framwork Contributor License Agreement and send it off to Zend. Still no word as yet, but fingers crossed.

I’ve also bought myself an XBOX 360 (and a few games), you’ll find me on XBL as my usual nick.

Things seem to be going well at the moment, but only time will tell.

For my Post today I have chosen LornaJane. This stems from many reasons, which over the course of this post I hope to explain.

Ok As many of you know (and if you don’t then shame on you for not actually looking at the content :p ) I work with PHP and various other web related technologies on a daily basis (sometimes on a Nightly basis too ) and a few years ago I came across the PHP Women group and started hanging around in their IRC channel. LornaJane was one of the people there that made me feel truely welcome.

After a while, the PHP UK Conference for 2008 came around and she prompted me to go, so I did. It was my first conference and I was extremely nervous, but I made it through and made some interesting acquaintances and new friends.

After this, she helped me get to grips with things and improve upon concepts and ideas I had, and also helped me gain confidence that maybe I wasn’t the silly girl for wanting to write code that had tainted before.

Later after another Conference, which she helped persuade and get me to, I had a crisis of confidence over some of the comments that people had left on the net in regard to it and myself. Lorna calmed me down and helped me see it in perspective.

So it’s for these reasons that I celebrate the PHP Woman LornaJane for all her good work within the community and for being someone that I would truely consider a friend.

As Before my review may contain spoilers

I sat down to watch this film, eagerly as the trailers seem to be reasonable full of action along with a somewhat good plotline. Unfortunately the plot was not done any justice by the film makers.

The film started well, with the back story set into place and the introduction of the main protagonist and heroes for the story, then from it all went downhill. While there was a lot of build up, it all seemed very anticlimatical as the most exciting point was when a mutated mole attacked and that lasted all of about a minute. The Film dragged on until it fell into predictability and “old hat”edness which just furthered my annoyance.

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Be warned this might contain spoilers

The Film started of slow and full of the same stuff that apparantly filled the office (my other half actually liked that show). The basic construct was set out with one of the main characters lying to his wife about an apartment he had just bought (he intended it to be a love nest for his “girlfriend” on the side) when a Air conditioning unit falls from above and smashes to the ground. Luckily for him he has stepped back out of the way, unluckily for him is the fact he’s just stepped infront of an oncoming bus. Wham Dead.

Next we cut to Ricky’s character, Dr Bertram Pincus D.D.S., a Dentist who is not a people person at all. I would go so far as to say a complete Arsehole of a degenerate who’s value of self importance dwarfs the whole cast, but that’s just the impression I got.
Apparently, he goes for an operation (I’ll spare you the details on this) and dies for 7 Minutes (Just under). The result of which leaves him with the ability to see and hear ghosts.New York being New York, we find that the city is full of them and they are all excited that he can see them, he of course isn’t. He has equal disdain for them.

In steps our bus killed dead guy, with a story of various woes of how his wife’s new boyfriend is not good for her. With promises of controlling the other spirits/ghosts and getting them to leave our “lovely” Dr Pincus alone, he convinces Pincus to split up his wife and boyfriend.

Ricky builds the character well that you feel that you want to despise Dr Pincus with all of your vigor but as the story progresses he grows on you, you look for the nice points.

This story is really about how people can go about their daily lives with as little interaction with people as they want, but without some interaction, then they will just end up being (and I quote partially here) a “Fucking prick”

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Verdict:
The Film was reasonably good but was left wanting. Like drinking and still being thirsty when you finish.

I’ve been trundling through the latest site (http://www.gamers.uk.net) which is been working well for the most part..

Over the last few days I’ve not really wanted to do any sort of work on it at all or anything else really. Friday is the deadline and so the next few nights I’m going to have to put in some late nights to get it all complete.

Things that are bugging me:

1. Why couldn’t the client tell me about the postage when I asked them before?
2. Why is it so difficult to get the energy to work when you work from home?

Oh well, suppose I best put myself back to work

BK

So anyway.. hopefully I will make good use of it