Campfire

The people side of the craft: leadership, careers, mentoring, and the story of the blog itself.

Speaking at PHPNW15: winning the unconference slot, then being handed a last-minute Sunday hangover talk, and surviving both.

What a PHP Scout actually is: the Boy Scout Rule applied to code, and the rest of the Scouting ethos applied to how you work.

Physical PHP Scout membership badges, and the pledges that come with one: leave it better than you found it, and the rest.

My first lightning talk, on applying Scouting principles to writing software, delivered in full Scout uniform to a room of developers.

Rebranding from Dev in Charge to PHP Boy Scout, and the conference talk that connected a decade of Scouting to how I write code.

A free open-source website for Scout groups: a SilverStripe module and theme with event calendars, section pages, news and forms.

Winding down my own company after three and a half years of becoming more salesman than engineer, and what I decided to do instead.

First impressions of a Google Nexus 7 on unboxing day, and the foibles: no storage expansion, no Flash, and patchy application support.