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This blog has been a bit quiet for the last two years, with me blogging on APIs You Won’t Hate and phil.bike more than here. 2017 was mostly…

A few months ago I wrote a bit of an emotional article about my visa status, and how I was in a bit of a pickle. A few people since have…

We work in an industry where far too many people pretend that everything is O.K. We pretend that sexism isn’t rife. We pretend that startup…

The last seven months have been a weird time. I started off the year with the knowledge that the startup I worked for was running out of…

Back in 2010 I set myself a list of goals and put them online in the hope that it would be some extra motivation. I actually did pretty well…

I spent the last three months working as a hired gun for a start-up in an incubator program called ignite100, and now I am back in the south…

While I am on the ignite100 start-up incubator I have met some amazing people in some brilliant start-ups. One of these start-ups is Givey…

I was giving a short talks at DevXS in Lincoln this weekend based on my Nomadic Web Development article and I was asked “Where did you find…

I’ve been working up in Newcastle recently on the longest stay of my Nomadic Web Development mission, wandering the globe and country…

Anyone following me on Twitter will have seen tweets coming in from all-over the place for the last few months. Am I on holiday? Nope…

As you may have seen in my last article I’m currently off traveling the world (well, North America for now at least) and I wanted to give…

Another year has passed and this has been the best yet. Most years fly by without me having any real record of what I have achieved or where…

Let’s face it, none of us like dealing with big companies. Long waiting times, script reading Indian call centers, uncaring supervisors and…

After months of waiting the time is finally here for EECI2010 US: The ExpressionEngine & CodeIgniter Conference of 2010, held in San…

Now normally when I do big jobs I like to use CodeIgniter but at work that is not an option. Instead I had to get these sections working…

There are several reasons for starting this blog. Firstly as a way to keep track of all my tips, tutorials, code snippets and various web…