Thursday 16th December 2010 – 21:16
This map shows social links between Facebook users. Russia seems dark.
Monday 19th April 2010 – 01:37
I guess the caching is working lololol:
Wednesday 3rd February 2010 – 20:23
Just got a nice email in repsonse to some code I submitted publically: “jon — just a quick ‘thank you’ for the code you posted re: parsing csv files. i have a gi-normous excel csv file with individual records spanning multiple lines because of multi-paragraph ‘notes’ fields in each record. your solution of counting the fields […]
Saturday 14th November 2009 – 16:39
I can’t wait to see more of this.. a 3D map made from photographs and laser measurements
Friday 2nd October 2009 – 11:56
Taking last month as an example (September 1st — October 1st), one of my more popular web applications was used by 332,174 unique visitors, spending an average of 6 mins 37 secs. Working from that figure, 3.971 years are spent using the applications per month!
Wednesday 12th August 2009 – 18:51
DreamHost now offers one-click Trac and Subversion hosting. Trac is a web-based revision and bug tracking system allowing you to roll back and share your source code in a team and as an individual, track bugs and development goals, and much more. You can read why you should always use a source control system like Trac/Subversion […]
Thursday 6th August 2009 – 19:30
If you’ve ever run out of disk space and faced the difficult decision of what files to delete or offload to DVDs or an external hard drive, this program may help you. Space from AndyH Software This software creates a visualisation of your hard drive so you can see how much space files and folders are […]
Thursday 30th July 2009 – 16:30
I recently posted that I was trying out ClickHeat, and that I would write an installation guide to help others install it. However, the installation was so simple that I have nothing do add to the installation notes from the official site. I have been using ClickHeat on my personal site and a few high traffic […]
Wednesday 29th July 2009 – 03:37
I am trialing ClickHeat. ClickHeat is an open source project licenced under GPL. It records the position of the user’s mouse on web pages, and creates a heatmap. I previously tried a few different free trials of commercial heatmap systems. I dismissed a few as unreliable, and many were more than adequate. However, I’d like […]
Wednesday 1st July 2009 – 02:25
My entry for Dreamhost’s API competition won! I created a web application that shows visitors on a world map in real time. I used PHP, CURL, SQLite, AJAX and Google Maps. If you are a Dreamhost customer, you can use the Dreamhost Real-Time Hit World Map here. Screenshot:
Wednesday 1st July 2009 – 02:24
I installed a new Virtual Private Server, and tried out Virtualmin, the latest incarnation of the Usermin/Webmin family. I’ve found it to be very stable, and great for Linux administrators that are used to configuring servers via configuration files and command line, but wish to save time. It remains as flexible as manual configuration, but […]
Saturday 13th June 2009 – 02:28
I’ve been working on an application for the Dreamhost API competition. My entry allows Dreamhost customers to view hits to their web site on a world map in real-time. If you are a Dreamhost customer, you can use the Dreamhost Real-Time Hit World Map here.
