For one reason and another I hadn’t attended a Refresh Belfast event for a number of months, but last night I managed to make it to the Black Box again for this regular but informal get-together for local developers and creatives. Speaking this month was Blaine Cook, principal co-author of the OAuth specification and former lead developer of Twitter, on the subject of “Putting a Finger on Web Logins”.
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December 21st, 2009 by John Girvin
I have a notional goal for this blog to post at least one update per month, but sometimes I’ll be working away on projects in the background and not really have anything specific finished and / or worth writing a post about. Enter what I’ve decided to call the “Hi, John. What’s Happening?” post.
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December 4th, 2009 by John Girvin
I wrote recently about a new book from Packt Publishing covering the CodeIgniter PHP framework that I’ve used in a number of my personal projects. I’ve now had time to read through the book, and this is what I found.
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November 26th, 2009 by John Girvin
Packt Publishing have recently published a book covering the CodeIgniter PHP framework that I’ve used in a number of my personal projects. CodeIgniter 1.7, written by Jose Argudo and David Upton, is designed as a companion to the official CodeIgniter user guide and is aimed at both newcomers more experienced developers alike.
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October 5th, 2009 by John Girvin
A few weeks ago I wrote about the launch of Public Records Office of Northern Ireland’s new searchable archive of Belfast Street Directories. I’ve now uploaded some coverage of the launch event, originally broadcast on UTV on 23rd September 2009.
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