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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 the ‘Programming’ Category

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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Welcome to the Political Blogosphere

by Stephen Hoult on May 24th, 2010

Please have a look at www.instantpolitics.co.uk. Myself and Malcolm Clarke have launched this site, the concept and code were written by yours truly and Malcolm has used his contacts, blog and inspiration to re-work that initial idea into a political blog portal. What Instant Politics will do: Instant Politics will take the latest 5 items [...]

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