Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Tickets for the first PHPNW08 (PHP North West Conference) 2008 are now on sale. The 1 day event has a fantastic schedule and tickets are just £50 (currently) for what looks to be a great event. Go register now.
Sunday, August 24th, 2008
Last month I mentioned the first PHPNW User Group meeting and this month I’m delighted to tell you about the 1st annual PHPNW conference happening later this year.
phpnw08 is a 1 day event organised by developers for developers to be held on Saturday 22nd November 2008 at Manchester Central and will bring together the North-of-England PHP community for a one-day event of exceptional presentations, challenging workshops, sensational debates and networking events. The conference will have a mix of in-depth and shorter talks and the call for papers is open so go submit a proposal.
Sunday, August 24th, 2008
There’s been an influx of jobs listed on the GeekUp Job Board recently and I just want to make sure the right people find them. The GeekUp Job board is a grassroots job board for the Design, Development, Technology and Web Industry in the UK. It’s completely FREE and doesn’t cost anything to post a job, and I try my darn hardest to keep it clear of posts from those *evil* recruiters. If your looking for a new job or fancy a change of career take a look at the jobs posted in August:
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
There is a new PHP User Group in town PHP North West (PHPNW), some of you may remember the the old PHP Meetup in Manchester run by Dan Morris which later merged into GeekUp due to low interest. Since then there has been growth of User Groups that are more focused on a particular technology.
PHPNW is a community of web developers, web designers and anyone else interested in PHP, from the North West.
The first PHPNW meeting is on this Thursday 17th July in Manchester, for full details visit the event page at Upcoming.
Thursday, June 28th, 2007
It’s the last Thursday of the month and that means GeekUp Liverpool is happening so if your around the Mersey you should pop along for a geeky chat. I unfortunately can’t make this event due to workload but hopefully I’ll make the next Liverpool event.
With every site you visit piling on more and more JavaScript and Ajax, what happens when a user comes along using a screen reader or mobile device that would choke on even a simple alert()? How can we take advantage of the power of these technologies without providing any barriers to users, this session will cover techniques to ensure that you can still serve up rich content without excluding users, all from one code base.
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007
Things are extremely busy right now at the office and we are seeking a full-time standards-aware front-end developer who is passionate about writing clean, semantic and accessible HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. If that sounds like yours -or someone you knows- cup-of-tea drop me an e-mail and include your resumé and if possible a list of links to examples of your work.
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007
I’m really happy to announce that GeekUp has arrived in yet another city, this time Leeds. I’m grateful that Deb Basset has agreed to organise the Leeds events. Debs and her partner Rob have been attending the Manchester events non-stop since I met them at reboot last year. They drive a 3 hour round trip to Manchester how much more dedicated could a GeekUper be?
The inaugural Leeds event!
Tuesday, November 8th, 2005
The guys over at “SiteVista”:http://www.sitevista.com/ today released CSSVista, a free Windows application for web developers which lets you edit your CSS code live in both Internet Explorer and Firefox simultaneously.
It’s rather funky and I’ll be putting it through it’s paces over the next couple of days to see how plays.
The current version is limited feature wise and comes with a warning ??It probably won’t explode, but it may not work perfectly 100% of the time. Please bear with us?? I predict this application will be part of many developers toolkits when more features are added.
“Grab”:http://www.sitevista.com/cssvista/ yourself a copy.
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