I just looked through the API of Microsoft’s new Bing search (which is really a re-branding of the live search – also, switch to “low bandwidth view” to be able to use the docs much more smoothly) and I found an interesting step in protecting code from throwing errors. When you provide a JSON output […]

Things that made me happy this morning: Good to know: The Guardian released a great piece on the truth of the figures involved in DVD/Game and Music piracy Finally an answer how to pronounce GIF – it is “Jiff” – no, not Yiff Some very useful bash scripts for web developers A handy “know your […]

One of the more complex things about GeoFill was to get postcode information from an IP. However with a collection of APIs and a collated YQL statement even this was possible. The first thing I needed to get was the IP of the user. This is done with the GeoIP API based on the GeoLite […]

One of the things I mentioned in my latest talk and the follow-up Q&A at Gumtree was that I am very interested in Geolocation and automatically detecting the user’s location to save them having to enter all the same info over and over again. Sure, location services like Fire Eagle and autofill options in browsers […]

Things that made me happy this morning Inspiring and fun Older people playing Wii and going for it Beautiful poster design proposals for the 2012 olympics Build your own starship enterprise either from an old Floppy Disk or from other random office supplies The ten commandments as text messages Tech stuff An interesting wrapper solution […]