The Code Train
Where Neil Crosby talks about coding on the train…
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Using last.fm tags to make awesome playlists in your local iTunes library
Posted on August 18th, 2010 by Neil Crosby. Filed under Blog Posts.
As I’ve mentioned previously, I have a large music collection that I manage using iTunes. One of the problems with any large collection is the curation and management that goes with it. I carry my iPhone around with me and I listen to music on it, but even the biggest iPhone available would [...]
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Review: Cordless Dog’s “Stay”
Posted on August 16th, 2010 by Neil Crosby. Filed under Blog Posts.
One of the problems with being an Apple laptop user who sometimes connects to external displays is the lack of any built in management of where different applications should live on those different displays.
If you’re anything like me, as soon as you connect your laptop to an external display you’ll end up moving [...]
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Packratius, and the inevitable overwhelming of del.icio.us
Posted on June 8th, 2010 by Neil Crosby. Filed under Blog Posts.
I’ve been using del.icio.us for years. I started using it well before it was bought up by Yahoo!, and for a long time my primary use for it was to store my bookmarks in an always available location – I used many computers, and not having my bookmarks tied to a single machine always seemed [...]
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Geolocation & Beer: Part 4 – Finding the Beer
Posted on June 2nd, 2010 by Neil Crosby. Filed under Blog Posts.
Now, I know I said there were only going to be three parts to this series, but I’ve just realised that I missed out a quite important part of how I built Beer Near Me – how I found the beer!
Even though Beer Near Me was only ever really built as a weekend project intended [...]
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Geolocation & Beer: Part 3 – Static Maps
Posted on May 17th, 2010 by Neil Crosby. Filed under Blog Posts.
The final thing to do now that you’ve found the user’s latitude and longitude and told them where they are in a human readable format is to put all the data you’ve gathered onto a map.
Now, there are lots of tutorials out there for the JavaScript based Google Maps API. So, if [...]
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Geolocation & Beer: Part 2 – Telling the User where they are
Posted on May 13th, 2010 by Neil Crosby. Filed under Blog Posts.
In the last entry, I wrote about how we can use the navigator.geolocation API to find a user’s current location. In today’s post I’m going to continue on to talk about taking that location and turning it into a piece of human readable text that tells the user where they are.
After all, having a [...]
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Geolocation & Beer: Part 1 – Finding the user
Posted on May 5th, 2010 by Neil Crosby. Filed under Blog Posts.
I recently attended BarCamb3, a BarCamp held at the lovely Red Gate Software offices in Cambridge. My main contribution to the event was talking about a silly little weekend learning project I’ve been working on – Beer Near Me.
I’ve split the presentation I gave up into three separate blog posts, which I’ll [...]
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Review: The Non-Designer’s Design Book
Posted on February 21st, 2010 by Neil Crosby. Filed under Blog Posts.
I’m not a designer. That much is obvious from looking at the websites I produce that haven’t been designed by someone else. That doesn’t mean I don’t care though; which is why on Christmas day last year I ordered Robin Williams‘ “The Non-Designer’s Design Book” (as recommended to me by Tim Huegdon).
I’ve only [...]
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Deep Linking into YouTube Videos
Posted on January 8th, 2010 by Neil Crosby. Filed under Blog Posts, Tips & Tricks.
Just a very quick post today to highlight something I only became aware of a couple of days ago because of Jake Archibald, when he posted a youtube link on an internal mailing list – it’s possible to deep link into an arbitrary point within YouTube videos.
I had thought that this was something most other [...]
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Using WordPress’s “Upgrade Automatically” Feature
Posted on December 19th, 2009 by Neil Crosby. Filed under Blog Posts, Tips & Tricks.
Yup, it’s time for the WordPress upgrade dance, yet again – 2.9 Carmen has just been released and everyone using WordPress is being “urged” to upgrade.
Now, I’m slightly ashamed to admit it, but up until last week I hadn’t been upgrading regularly. It had seemed like in order to be able to use WordPress’s “Upgrade [...]