memespring

jenny-bee has recycled my twitter watcher thingy for use at BarcampUKGovweb. In case its useful to anyone else, the code’s here.

I’m building a local email group finder for mysociety at the moment, the idea being that people will be able to find those hidden online communities where they live. The aim is to make the site work anywhere in the world from the out, so I’ve been making a lot of use of the GAZE […]

This counts as the most ridiculous browser bug in the world ever:
At moo we have been having problems on and off for the past few months with parts of people’s php sessions randomly disappearing. Always Internet Explorer users, but other than that totally random.
We finally tracked it down yesterday to a single comment on […]

We now have an API on PlanningAlerts.com that churns out a geoRSS feed for a postcode or UK grid reference.
It’s nicely coincided with google maps supporting the format, so we can make cool things like this map of applications near the City of London.
That map is a nice example of PlannignAlerts has been worth the […]

I’m at the South by South West tech thingy in Austin, Texas this week. The whole place is going silly for Twitter. Since it’s pissing it down outside Ive been playing about with their api and come up with this totally useless, but quite hypnotic page: memespring.co.uk/twitter.

A few observations of someone working with php but missing ASP.NET a bit (only a bit mind):

Use Smarty to separate content from code

The way .NET forces you to seperate your presentation into aspx pages is great - whilst PHP pages have a nasty tendency of these getting all mixed up (especially when you get a […]