Welcome

Take a look at http://coffeerings.posterous.com for my less techie (and more regularly updated) blog.

Coffeerings is the personal home page of John Walker, a UK based web developer. I have been commercially involved in the web for over 8 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

Using Node JS and Couch DB Stack for Web Dev

With the recent hype surrounding Node.js I thought I'd better get my head around some of it's capabilities.  See my Posterous blog for an example of a Couch DB + Node.js web dev stack  read more

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