I started using the very elegant wordpress theme DePo Clean from yesterday. It’s a nice sparse spartan theme with not too much busyness and I liked it the minute I saw it. There were a few teething problems with it which it took a while to fix. Here’s some of the bugs I found.
The first [...]
A screen scraper is a program to get information from websites without clicking a lot of pages and cut’n’pasting from each of them. It’s a way of automatically picking the stuff you want from a site and putting it all into one place for easy consumption. For example, if you wanted to know how much [...]
Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about screen scrapers. I wanted a quick way to get lots of information from websites, one in particular, so that I could add it to my maps without all the bother of actually doing any work.
The first one I tried was called Solvent. This is a plugin for Piggybank, [...]
What I though was going to be an easy case of looking through the google maps API for a solution to bounds turned into a mammoth task today. I wanted a way to make the centre and zoom of a map change according to the points it contained, with the centre being the average of [...]
Last week I started adding content to the front page. In PHP, I programmed a script to pull the latest 6 places from the database, grab their main photo and display it with a link to the page. I also grabbed the coordinates for each place and put them all on a map. The general [...]
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