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Parsing CIF files to get train schedule data in PHP 11 Apr 2013 | 12:55 am
I’ve had some fun looking at what data you can get via the National Rail Open Data scheme, and was really impressed by the ActiveMQ implementation they’ve got for Real Time Train Movement Messages! Th...
PHP Kent – The first meetup 3 Apr 2013 | 09:50 pm
Thursday 18th April 2013 at the LOL Bar in Maidstone. It’s been a long time coming (the idea started in 2010), but my business partner and I have finally got around to organising a local PHP user grou...
Getting the raw POST or PUT data of a request in ZF2 MVC 19 Mar 2013 | 02:36 am
If you’re sending raw data to ZF2 over http (perhaps a json document), you can use the “getContent()” method of Zend\Http\PhpEnvironment\Request. How does this work in practice? In a controller you mi...
RB Fitocracy wordpress plugin released 15 Feb 2013 | 02:21 am
I’ve just released a new WordPress plug-in to display Fitocracy stats on your blog. Give it a whirl and let me know what you think: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rb-fitocracy/ The next version w...
Virgin Media broadband in MEx – will this post make it online? 2 Feb 2013 | 09:48 pm
For the last few weeks my Virgin Media broadband service has been unusable during peak times. Unfortunately Virgin media don’t consider this a service fault, merely an inconvenience. When do VM expect...
Wishing for a Fitocracy API 30 Jan 2013 | 03:20 am
So its been a while since my last post. Rather than come up with some decent content I thought I’d waste time updating the theme of the blog and coming up with a new whizzy plugin. Progress, right? I ...
Running phing from its phar 4 Apr 2012 | 09:52 am
As of phing 2.4.10 you can download phing as a phar file, perfect for using phing on servers with PHP > 5.3 but without access to PEAR. Quite new to phar files I struggled to get started, but it turns...
Running phing from its phar 4 Apr 2012 | 02:52 am
As of phing 2.4.10 you can download phing as a phar file, perfect for using phing on servers with PHP > 5.3 but without access to PEAR. Quite new to phar files I struggled to get started, but it turns...
RB Internal Links v2.0.14 8 May 2011 | 05:42 am
A mini maintenance release addressing a shortfall in the wordpress shortcode parser. Unfortunately the wordpress shortcode API can’t successfully process the following: OR To circumvent this, where...
RB Internal Links v2.0.14 7 May 2011 | 10:42 pm
A mini maintenance release addressing a shortfall in the wordpress shortcode parser. Unfortunately the wordpress shortcode API can’t successfully process the following: Normal content OR Normal conten...
