simonwheatley

Following hashtags with a Fluid app for Summize, errr, I mean Twitter Search

Jul 20, 2008

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Just put together a quick Fluid app for Twitter Search. (Fluid is a Mac specific browser designed to be used with just one app, and together with it’s user scripts, think Grease Monkey, you can mimic basic application functionality. I’ve just put one together which tracks the Twitter conversations around one Hashtag using the new…

WordPress plugin development presentation

Jul 19, 2008

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My presentation for WordCamp UKÂ on WordPress Plugin Development (although I will update this soon with better slide notes):Â PDF version.

Ideas for my council

Jul 9, 2008

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You can click on the mockup above, to see a full screen view of the mockup. This mockup is part of a submission that Guy Dickinson of Participo and I are submitting for the UK Government’s “Show Us A Better Way“Â competition to create innovative and socially useful applications with Government data. Update: You can see…

Phew. My calendar is synced to my phone again

Jul 7, 2008

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My phone used to sync with iCal several times a day, but when I upgraded to Leopard it wiped my cron tab file and all that goodness stopped. (Your crontab file is a way of scheduling tasks on your Mac using the Terminal application.) I’ve just googled around for the solution and found it again:Â Use…

Why do the trains have to stop?

Jun 28, 2008

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Fantastic idea from China for a transport system where the trains don’t stop at stations, but where people still get on and off. Most of the energy in public transport is spent in getting the train/bus/tram moving again only shortly after you’ve stopped it at a station. So how do we remove this wasteful but…

Velocity Markup documentation

May 28, 2008

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Velocity is a Java centric template markup language/syntax, and the documentation for using it seems a little Google shy for some reason… so, here it is, for me as much as anyone: Velocity markup documentation.