#alltwitters anyone got good tips on how to debug my bluescreen of deaths #BSod
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Archive for March, 2010
Roger Boyes, sorry still laughing.
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…or keep it simple, keep it clean.
If you have read my blog then you will know that I have been building a few websites for people that have helped me get healthy in the last year. My yoga teacher’s website, http://www.myoneonone.com, for a long time was not really ranking for what she does, yoga. You could search for Yoga Glasgow and she would be way down the list, even though she is probably one of the best, in my humble opinion, due to her experience. Between herself and her husband, Tobias, they really have cornered the alternative health, or as someone said to me recently, original health, market. Read the rest of this entry »
Just had an email from 123-reg telling me about all the international domains they offer, and there at the top was .me. And it says that .me is the TLD for Montenegro. I didn’t know that.
Here are other things about Montenegro I didn’t know, but Wikipedia told me:
Montenegro (
/ˌmɒntɨˈneɪɡroʊ/ (help·info) or /ˌmɒntɨˈniːɡroʊ/), (Montenegrin: Црна Гора/Crna Gora, listen (help·info)) (meaning “Black Mountain” in Montenegrin) is a country located in Southeastern Europe. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south-west and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast, Kosovo[a] to the east and Albania to the southeast.[3] Its capital and largest city is Podgorica, while Cetinje is designated as the Prijestonica (Пријестоница), meaning the former Royal Capital City.[4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montenegro
So, you are not Montenegro!
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Mashups Galore
This world is now full of mashups. From music tracks to music videos, from companies buying companies, to online stuff. And being a developer the ones that excite me most are the ones where you take one website, say Flickr, and another, just for example Google, and you get some smart cookie doing some magic with the available APIs and producing a kick ass free tool available to everyone! Well that’s exactly what we did in my day job about 8 months ago (I must be that smart cookie?).
The Birth of iMapFlickr
So we took the Google Maps API and the Flickr API and produced iMapFlickr. This is an awesome tool that allows you to take all your photos, that have been geotagged, from Flickr and we will place them in the correct location on a Google Map. With tonnes of customisation options, and a free account to boot, we then give you the code to display your lovely creation in your blog or website – anywhere that can accept some HTML.
The reason I have started blogging about it now is only because we have started to get those cool wee extra links that Google sometimes puts under your website address in it’s search page. I was well chuffed to see that.
So get your map on people (if anyone is reading this which I doubt). Hundreds of other people use it, so it can’t be bad now!
Wow! My blog is now sucked up into Facebook. Nice idea. But can I ask the reason? Or the need? Oh well here is the link into Facebook. I love the things you find on Smashing Magazine.
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Currently watching MasterChef on BBC 1. Do you know what I really love, and it’s true for the programming world as well, those people that come in saying “I do this type of cooking, and blog about it, and that’s my job so I must be able to cook” for the presenters to turn around and say “That’s crap, fuck off!”.
As I said this is also true in the programming world. Truthfully I know only a handful of programmers, and for the most part they are excellent. But I have met programmers in my time that call themselves an authority in programming, blog about it all the time, and are awarded for their work in talking about it. But when it comes to the crunch of the matter I wouldn’t trust them with an etch-a-sketch!
Then on the other hand you have a programmer that only started playing with ASP.NET a few years ago, only recently moved to C#, and blogs a little. However each of their blog posts are so insightful to programming that they get picked up by some of the most important websites. Well done William.
