Last night, Anthony Sterling kicked off the first meeting of PHPNE, a Newcastle-based PHP user group in the style of several existing regional get-togethers. I joined a dozen or so other local developers at the Town Wall, which has kindly agreed to host the group for the forseeable future.
In which I jury-rig my CMS to emulate the excellent WriteRoom, and thus maybe write articles a little bit quicker.
Earlier this weekend I decided to add a few bits of new functionality to the site. As is so often the case with these things, it quickly snowballed into an early spring-clean, and the first proper refit of the site's backend since I built it the first time. Here's a quick rewrite of what changed and why.
“ Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, Great Cheiftain o' the Puddin'-race! ”
You should know what's for dinner tonight. Here's what to eat tomorrow.
A couple of weeks ago I posted this illustration, which I was hoping to develop as a full project. And that's exactly what happened — as the artwork for the debut album from Scared of the Ocean, a band from my home town of Milton Keynes. Plenty of pictures in the full article.
A quick remix of a vector illustration I did last year, for a blog post that I never finished.
On a related note: Dobkeratops is my favourite video game boss of all time. I think that was basically what I was trying to say in the blog post, although I had it padded out over about 1500 words. That, and that you should probably play an R-Type game in the next few days.
“ I held an iPad in my hands today and it was kind of like holding the future. The future is expensive and has a glass front. ”
As far as first impressions go, these (by Gavin Logan on Friday's Geekest Drink) are pretty much on the money. It might seem a little late in the day to be writing up thoughts on a new device — after a month here and several in the States, some would perhaps feel that the topic is a little stale. But as many initial observations of the device seem to be based on shininess or pricetag, I thought it would be a good idea to hold off until I'd seen how it works in the real world for a non-trivial period of time.
A little bit of in-progress illustration work that may or may not be for a future project...
(On a slightly related note, who do I need to screw to get a dribbble invite?)