by Andrew Johnstone
After reviewing MultiMap, I decided to demo StreetMap and in conclusion they both have fantastically appalling interfaces. Whilst MultiMap’s implementation appears to be more flexible allowing information to flexible, these interfaces demonstrate the extreme basics of their services. The only information required to implement a store location facility is a PostCode, Longitude and Latitude and […]
I recently started playing with a couple trial accounts from multi-map for a client of ours. I was quite surprised it is actually running Coldfusion and MySQL. Whilst I have heard of MySQL supporting GIS and Spatial data, I have never seen an implementation or known of one until now. Whilst playing with Multimap I […]
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21 Jul 2005Yesterday Andrew Gearing (AGCC), took me on a tour of London Meridian Gate DC. You cannot go anywhere without a PAC security card access and it was very noisy on the datacenters floors. Anyway was very interesting to see, thanks Andrew:) Security Very Early Smoke Detection Apparatus (VESDA) installed Smoke detection system FM2000 fire suppression […]
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15 Jul 2005Yesterday I had a nightmare with some very unusual character encoding issues. This only occurred in internet explorer, however the text of the page was static, the charset for the page was: <meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=UTF-8″> and also the http header for the charset was set to UTF-8. Halfway through the body of the content […]
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15 Jul 2005A very quick thing I learnt yesterday as well.. When using a hyperlink to a pdf file you can search the document by suffixing a hash. .pdf#search=’query’ Ensure the query is within quotes.
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13 Jul 2005A particular interesting project, as I have been doing a little research into this topic and recently retrieved the specifications for ETSI. The BBC TV-Anytime Java API is for parsing, manipulating and creating TV-Anytime metadata. It is currently released under LGPL TV-Anytime is an open standard for metadata describing TV and radio programmes that is […]
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11 Jul 2005Today I found an odd bug in MSXML. <!– <xsl:comment> —–BEGIN call-template name=”article” EMPTY PathID—– </xsl:comment> –> msxml3.dll error ‘80004005’ The stylesheet does not contain a document element. The stylesheet may be empty, or it may not be a well-formed XML document. “C:\DOMAINS\HOSTELHOST.COM\WWWROOT\CLIENT\DK\EYEWITNESS\../includes/src/default.asp, line 43”
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10 Jul 2005I recently wrote a very quick CMS in ASP in two days and seeing as I haven’t touched ASP in a number of years and have forgotten alot of very minor things, such as language constructs. I have re-learnt some slightly odd methods to what i’ve been using recently with complex forms for example passing […]
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29 Jun 2005Whilst writing custom Content Management Systems, its quite surprising, how the various rules that I implement from WorkFlow to Logic, actually make many Content Management Systems available Off The Shelf useless. Most predominantly Presentation Logic is a critical factor in most if not all open source CMS’s making them unviable solutions. A very simple example. […]
Lately I’ve been looking into a new topic. There are a couple of different services of which can get quite easily mixed up. Firstly “WTVML is a markup language that provides a content authoring format for interactive television service applications based on Internet standards.” and also “Sky Active, which is an interactive entertainment channel that […]
I have been a developer for roughly 10 years and have worked with an extensive range of technologies. Whilst working for relatively small companies, I have worked with all aspects of the development life cycle, which has given me a broad and in-depth experience.