BeInspired 09

October 2, 2009 · Posted in Freelance, Networking, Travel · 1 Comment 

Yesterday, I attended the Business Link event BeInspired 09. I’d not been to an event of this type before, so I was prepared for it to be an eye-opener. I was joined by Ben Andrews a good friend of mine who’s in a similar situation to me (essentially a newbie to this business networking malarkey).

We rocked up at registration to collect our name badges and took a wander around the venue to get an understanding of where the workshops were being held, the location of the coffee and the theatre. We grabbed ourselves a seat in preparation for Richard Farleigh to take the keynote. His talk was great, far more down to earth than I was expecting. Starting out with his back-story and his childhood, realising that he could hustle people playing chess at the age of 14! Including his list of failures and … more

BarCamp Bournemouth

April 3, 2009 · Posted in Freelance, Networking, Personal, Travel · Comment 

This weekend, the 4th and 5th April I’m going to BarCamp Bournemouth along with @stunami and @colinmacd. It’s a BarCamp event being held in the university campus, organised by @markng, @tepanga and @adammills.

Last year I attended BathCamp which was … more

Spending time in relaxing surroundings

March 6, 2009 · Posted in Freelance, Networking, Personal · Comment 

Today was the first of our ‘Lounge Fridays’. Ben and I spent the day working together at The Wellington Inn.

The Wellington Inn

The Wellington Inn

A great finish to the week mainly spend hauled up in the office taking product photographs for the new Bytemart website.

sfImageTransformPlugin – released

October 15, 2008 · Posted in Configuration, Freelance, Installation, Networking, Plugins, Symfony · 1 Comment 

Stuart Lowes has released sfImageTransformPlugin 0.1.0 for Symfony. This plugin is for manipulating images using the GD or ImageMagick libraries.

A simple to use and flexible image manipulation symfony plugin. The plugin allows you to perform “transforms” on an image. A transform maybe simple like a resizing or mirroring or more complex … more

sfImageTransform – Presentation

September 7, 2008 · Posted in Freelance, Networking, Travel · 4 Comments 

An image manipulation plugin for Symfony

Take a look at the full presentation:-
http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=df7cvq3s_1hgchr6f2
Published on 7 September 2008 12:50

or, simply take a look at the mini presentation:

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