The Map­Point ser­vice is a com­mer­cial offer­ing by Microsoft which gives developers access to a wide vari­ety of map­ping func­tion­al­ity through a web ser­vice inter­face. Well that’s how it used to be any­way. For a while Map­Point was just a web ser­vice and a tech­no­logy that powered products like Autoroute, then for a while it […]

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• api,
• bing,
• mapping,
• mappoint,
• maps,
• php,
• php5,
• service,
• soap,
• web service,
• xml,
• zend,
• zend framework

Examin­ing the Octo­ber 2009 relaunch of the Little Chef web­site which attemp­ted to build upon the les­sons learned from hav­ing worked on the site for over three years; the rebuild of course came with its own tribulations.

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• campaign monitor,
• css,
• dwoo,
• email,
• internet explorer,
• iris,
• iris associates,
• little chef,
• mappoint,
• microsoft,
• php,
• php4,
• php5,
• project,
• style sheets,
• work,
• work related,
• zend,
• zend framework

An exam­in­a­tion of some of the more inter­est­ing parts of the National Col­lege web­site which I worked on since Novem­ber 2008 and was launched in Septem­ber 2009. Includes a look at the full-fat Carou­sel script as well as tab and tool­tip scripts and markup.

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• carousel,
• css,
• iris,
• iris associates,
• javascript,
• js,
• markup,
• national college,
• ncsl,
• project,
• tabs,
• tabulator,
• tooltips,
• tooltipsy,
• work releated,
• xhtml,
• xhtml strict

My Sunday after­noon pro­ject wasn’t some­thing that I could just let lie and it didn’t take long for work to start on it again. Using the list of improve­ments I had iden­ti­fied, I began with the aes­thet­ics and then moved on to other, more num­ber intens­ive areas of research.
Before even touch­ing the code I subsumed […]

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• algorithm,
• avatars,
• Code,
• conways game of life,
• game of life,
• Geekery,
• gravatars,
• john horton conway,
• optimisation,
• php

On a quiet Sunday after­noon of a Bank hol­i­day week­end, a pro­ject is born mar­ry­ing the cel­lu­lar auto­mata of John Hor­ton Conway’s Game of Life and the auto­matic gen­er­a­tion of avatars. While not entirely suc­cess­ful, the found­a­tion has been laid for fur­ther improvement.

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• algorithm,
• animated gif,
• animation,
• automata,
• avatar,
• cellular automata,
• Code,
• conways game of life,
• game of life,
• gd,
• Geekery,
• gravatar,
• life,
• php