Timothy Bowler

Finally after having to wait an extra four days (Thanks UPS) I finally received my new Nokia 6131 NFC. The phone has quiet a few features and is small and compact. The reason for needing this phone is so I can start development on Near Field Communication (NFC). At the moment my PhD revolves around the world of NFC and this little phone is going to help me with my first prototype.

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This ultra portable pc is a winner. Its compacted, light, long battery life, multimedia ready and best of all comes pre-installed with xandros linux.

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A slight performance increase for Apache is to turn off the per-directory configuration files (.htaccess), and insert them into the virtual hosts configuration file. For each Symfony project that I set up the vhost file looks something like:

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The majority of the sites which I work on incorporate some pagination. Therefore I thought it was time to create a partial for the templates. This is the very first version. I have included a link to the file at the bottom. I’m in the process of setting up a public SVN repro so please bare with me.

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I was accepted as a research student at the University of Greenwich earlier this year and have just registered. I’m researching in the field of Near Field Communication (NFC). As days go past this area is slowly becoming reality as O2 has shown. However, although my research is in this particular field, I’m reaching out further into the practicalities of NFC and the day to day business environment. Hopefully after I finsih Ill be more than happy to release my paper, so watch this space

Early this year I was looking for a better development process to introduce into the company that I work for, and I came across SCRUM. After reading a few books I realised that by using SCRUM our whole development process would be a lot more efficient. Therefore, in June I successfully introduced part of the SCRUM process. I say only part of SCRUM because we did not follow every guideline. In Novemeber I completed the Certified Scrum Master (CSM) course.

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I couldn’t figure out why the same same project that was checked out of svn on my latop and on my desktop failed to build on my desktop. The solution was simple, yet lead me to believe it was due to the the package=”lib.model” attribute missing in the schema.xml file.

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