PHP Developer - Pete Robinson - London and Essex PHP Developer specialising in Freelance PHP, mySQL, jQuery, XHTML, CSS, AJAX, XML and other web technologies

So you're thinking about freelancing?

Oct 19th, 2010 Categories: Development Work Related

Without a doubt, being a successful freelancer is one of the most enjoyable places to be in this field. You take on the work you want, working at your own standard, don't have to deal with other developers messing up your code and you report only yourself. As long as you've got everything right,...

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Pitching to a PHP Developer

Nov 8th, 2010 Categories: Development Musings Work Related

We've all had it. People with ideas and no money. Or people with ideas, money and no trust. These two categories define the most irritating aspect of taking on new work. So lets imagine two scenarios. ...

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SagePay PHP Class

Dec 20th, 2010 Categories: Development Work Related

We all know that implementing a payment service into a e-commerce store can be a hellish task if you've never worked with that particular service before. If you have your own shop framework (as I do), there is no pre-written PHP for you to tweak the parameters of and hope for the best. ...

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The Facebook API

May 10th, 2011 Categories: Development Work Related

The past year or so, I've been doing a whole lot of work with the Facebook API. It seems that there is a lot of confusion amongst both developers and project / account managers around what can and can't be done with it. ...

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The Problem With Interviewing For a PHP Developer

Nov 24th, 2011 Categories: Development Musings Work Related

Ok, so it's rant time. If there's one thing that gets to me, it's interview questions. Having been on both ends of the interview table, it's quite apparent that a lot of agencies (or should I say their staff) seriously lack interview skills. I'm referring more to the type of questions and challenges...