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Stephen is a keen Sunderland AFC fan and season ticket holder

He is currently working as a Web Developer specialising in PHP and MySQL development.

In his spare time he enjoys playing pool, snooker and photography.

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Archive for February, 2011

MODX – “The developer’s CMS”

by Stephen Hoult on February 23rd, 2011

For those of you who are looking for an alternative CMS (content management system) to something like Joomla, Mambo, Drupal and the numerous others then I urge you to check out a CMS called MODX. MODX is open source, written in PHP and MySQL and very, very easy to develop on and customise whether it [...]

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Spambots & Prevention

by Stephen Hoult on February 15th, 2011

As you may know from reading other blog posts or pages on this site I’m a web developer. This is my job and I also do some at home. You may also know that I used to play ice hockey for the Whitley Warriors until I was forced to retire after suffering a DVT. When [...]

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Networking

by Stephen Hoult on February 15th, 2011

I’ve been doing a lot of reading on networks / networking over the past few days. As well as being interesting, this reading has also helped to refresh my knowledge of how networks operate – why we use this switch instead of that hub and other things most people wouldn’t know, or want to know, [...]

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Back on form

by Stephen Hoult on February 11th, 2011

Really enjoyed 6-a-side last night. Did a lot more running and got involved a lot more in what was a “physical” match with a lot of meaty tackles. I think more or less everyone will have woken up with some sort of ache or pain this morning. In my case it’s my ankle after being [...]

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6-a-side – week 4

by Stephen Hoult on February 10th, 2011

It’s been a while since I last posted on here. Mainly because of a lack of motivation as well as having had a lot on my plate with work, both cars breaking down and other not very nice things going on but hopefully the cars will be up and running again tomorrow and thing will [...]

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