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Working From Home 8 May 2012 | 10:58 pm
Working from home sounds like most people’s idea of perfect, and in many ways it is, but it’s not without its pitfalls. Working from home can be a minefield of distractions, blurred boundaries and def...
Greasemonkey Script. Play BBC iPlayer via XBMC 10 Sep 2010 | 12:00 am
The BBC iPlayer plugin for XBMC works really well. In my experience, It’s much more stable (if less fancy looking) than the official Wii application. The only downside is that as with most XBMC video ...
Code-Point Open – Northern Ireland Addendum 31 May 2010 | 09:19 am
In April 2010 Ordnance Survey released The Code-Point Open dataset under a licence compatible with the Creative Commons Attribution Licence. The dataset locates, by OSGB grid reference every postcode ...
The Problem With Code-Point Open From Ordnance Survey 29 May 2010 | 11:17 am
Before I begin, let me just say that decision of Ordnance Survey to release a whole bunch of their data into the public domain is a massive leap in the right direction. The number of freely available ...
Creating MySQL Dates From Integer day, month and year columns 22 May 2010 | 07:00 am
Granted, this is hardly a common occurrence, but recently I’ve had need to work with a database table that for historical reasons stores dates in three separate integer columns, one each for day, mont...
Yoda Syntax – A Backwards Design Pattern for If Statements 21 May 2010 | 03:00 am
Sometimes the penny drops and you realise there’s a childishly simple solution to a problem that’s been bugging you for years. And no, I’m not talking about my wife, I’m talking about Yoda Syntax. Ha...
Google Streetview Postcode Thumbnails 20 May 2010 | 07:35 am
Following my explorations of Google’s undisclosed Street View Images API, I’ve put together a handy little webservice that mashes up postcode geodata with the Streetview Images API. It’s handy in tha...
Expanding Short URLs with PHP: expand_url PHP function 18 May 2010 | 01:59 pm
URL shortening services work by redirecting a users browser from the shortened URL to the actual target URL. Some of these services provide means of reversing the shortening process. Some provide API ...
Create Short URLs with PHP: shorten_url PHP Function 18 May 2010 | 12:45 pm
Do you want to create short urls from within your own PHP application? Most url shortening services provide an API, it’s how apps like twitter clients provide built-in url shortening. I wrote a small ...
Google Streetview Static API 16 May 2010 | 09:19 am
It is possible to extract both thumbnails and higher resolution images (tiles) from the Google Streetview service through an unpublished, undocumented API which I will document below. Google have not ...
