Welcome

Coffeerings is the personal home page of John Walker, a UK based web developer. I have been commercially involved in the web for over 6 years having studied Multi-Media at university prior to that.  I've recently moved to Leeds and work for the Harrogate based digital agency Magnitude, previously I worked at Birmingham based advertising agency WAA as Lead Developer.

Outside of Magnitude I am an keen advocate of Open Source projects PHP-WAX, a lightweight php framework for PHP5 web applications and Wildfire CMS, a CMS plugin built for the PHP-WAX php framework. I also run a portfolio site for artists http://www.alltradeart.co.uk, a completely free service allowing artists to display their work on the internet.

Recent Articles

Bits in the news...

In a bid to make sense of the many random bookmarks I stick into delicious.com each week I've decided to briefly highlight the more interesting bits floating around.first up...last.fm vs Techcrunch read more

Post Code Search Using Google API

Recently I've had a requirement to map locations based on radius from a user defined point, basically the user would enter a postcode/location and items within a 10 mile radius are found from the database. This solution... read more

Upgrading alltradeart's subscription model

alltradeart went for a year without any change to the subscription model. Originally I'd intended to change the pricing depending on popularity and launch promotional rates aimed at specific groups of users. This never happene... read more

Making Life Easier

The best utilities are the ones you don't even realise are there, they sit there doing their job, beavering away without complaint. These utilities are rarely interesting as a broad concept, that's why they were created - to prev... read more