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Feb 12

Two Website Outages; One Important, One Trivial

On Tuesday 24th. January 2012 both vicchi.org and garygale.com went down. Then again, last night, both sites went down again. The first of these outages was entirely intentional; like many other sites on the web from the huge to the … Continue reading

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Nov 11

Beta No More; WP Biographia Hits Version 2.0

It’s taken a while but after 20 commits on GitHub, 1000 odd lines of PHP code, 40 odd WordPress forum posts and, what to me is a staggering, 1100 odd WordPress downloads, WP Biographia finally hits version 2.0. As I’ve … Continue reading

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Oct 11

At The Airport, Not All QR Codes Are Created Equal

Another day, another flight, another addition to the ever growing and increasingly arcane number of steps that you need to go through in order to get through an airport and actually take off on a plane. I’ve written before on … Continue reading

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Sep 11

Farewell Yahoo! Maps API, Hello Nokia Maps API

Yahoo’s JavaScript and AJAX API was the first mapping API I ever used and it now seems hard to remember when Yahoo’s API offerings were the dominant player, always iterating and innovating. The Yahoo! API set formed and continued to … Continue reading

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Jul 11

Mapstraction, Maps and Me

It’s been a while since my last blog post; my day job at Nokia has been taking up almost all of my time and what little time has been left has been spent with my family. But in between day … Continue reading

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