Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
This is my first post in two months..sorry, been incredibly busy at work! I’ve had my first week off since, well, I don’t know when!
So how did I spend one of my days off? Coding. Yep, bloody coding!
Anyway, I wanted to solve quite a specific problem with regards to Flickr. Every month [...]
Friday, June 12th, 2009
As mentioned in my other blog post, you may be interested in how you can plot points on a google map using the google maps API, combined with a MySQL database.
The basic premise is that you have a MySQL database containing a series of latitudes and longitudes, and you need to read the latitudes/longitudes from the database and plot them onto the google map.
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
One of my employers, the SCCJR, has started a new project: Community Policing in Scotland. The project is quite a modern project, in terms of academia, in that it combines many different multimedia elements such as video, audio and photographs to describe the routes Community Police Support Officers (CPSO’s) take on their ‘beat’. The police [...]
Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Contracted work for the next few months…it’s going to be a long summer!
Thursday, April 30th, 2009
We wax lyrical most of the time about beautifully designed sites. But what about the dark side of web design? Here, we disect some utterly terrible sites.
Monday, March 16th, 2009
Took a wee stroll around the Royal Mile to observe all the trying-too-hard-drama-luvvies in their natural environment.