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• Tech communities are good

  2019-09-02

  Drama is a tiny-but-highly-visible portion of what goes on in tech communities. Let's shout about the good stuff too.

• Lifehack: Family Brain

  2019-08-30

  An actual mind-reading trick for those who don't plan life down to every last car-refuelling and bathroom-cleaning.

• Innovation, Open Data and Citizen Engagement

  2019-07-03

  Technology presents so many opportunities for people to get involved in making public services data. And there are probably challenges too. If only the information was open!! Recycling data Our council here in Swindon recently changed the recycling rules. To inform people they produced a leaflet explaining which materials should go in which boxes. Now, […]

• The Oikos Site re-build – Part 1

  2019-06-20

  I hate my own business website. I built it quickly with a page builder. Like this site it’s kinda deliberately minimalist because I’m not a designer, and yes, it’s better than previous iterations. But there’s so much I don’t like about it. And I’m working, behind the scenes, with Statamic, trying to get to a […]

• Laravel: Custom error messages in form requests

  2019-05-24

  Note to self: this is why you should, and how you can customise form validation error messages in Laravel - even when using form requests

• Laravel: Going back() after form validation errors

  2019-05-17

  I’m SURE I must have done this before. Like…so many times. But this felt new today and is definitely worth remembering. When you’re using forms in Laravel, you sometimes want a “cancel” or “back” button or link that takes you to where you were before. And Laravel provides a handy url() helper that gets a […]

• Laravel: Being explicit in authorization policies

  2019-05-09

  How to specify a specific policy/class when authorizing using the controller helper function in Laravel.

• Speaker Tips from the wonderful WordCamp London folks

  2019-04-04

  I’m speaking at WordCamp London on Sunday. And I ALWAYS learn something new when public speaking. I’ve been chatting with other speakers in the Speaker’s Slack Channel and I popped in and asked for tips: Who has super speaker tips? Assume nothing. I want all the basics. I gave a couple of my own for […]