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Coffeerings is the personal home page of John Walker, a UK based web developer. I have been commercially involved in the web for over 7 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

Campaign Monitor API Using PHP and SOAP

Campaign Monitor has a fairly comprehensive API and support docs.  Unfortunately there doesn't appear to be many PHP code snippets out there for people to learn from.  This rather quick example should help you understan... read more

Google Maps Snippet

Absolute bare basics when it comes the Google Map api but a snippet of code that I tend to use as the basis for a lot of scripts using a postcode search and map plotting...<script src='http://maps.google.com/maps?file... read more

Hidden tracking request on Daily Mail website

When selecting text on the Dail Mail website @CharlotteGore (http://twitter.com/CharlotteGore) noticed a hidden request being sent to a tracking script.  Thought it would be int... read more

Minor Capistrano Issue

I'm dumping this on the site for reference more than anything else.  One of our older sites uses the rather stange combination of Capistrano and Rsync for deployment.  We upgraded to a new staging server, installed all ... read more