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Country fields in address forms

This oatmeal comic talks about Shopping Carts, and while most of it is spot on there in one thing I’ve seen before that annoys me: put the most popular counties at the top of the county list.

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Author JamesPosted on 30th January 2011Categories UncategorizedTags UI2 Comments on Country fields in address forms

Tracking Errors with PHP

If you have a PHP app, how do you track errors? I’ve been working on an Open Source project to enable you to capture errors and send them to a reporting app.

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Author JamesPosted on 30th January 2011Categories UncategorizedTags Elastik, ErrorReportingService, Errors, PHP, WordPress

My Bus Edinburgh

My Bus Edinburgh for Android is a brilliant app that lets you see when a bus is due at a bus stop near you. While it’s already become essential after only  a week or two, one thing would really improve it. While it provides real time information on the buses due, it doesn’t tell you how old that information is.

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Author JamesPosted on 22nd January 2011Categories UncategorizedTags Android, Edinburgh

Interpreting a KML File

I use GPS Logger on my Android phone. It’s a simple app that just records your position to a KML data file regularly. Interpreting it in an useful manner is another matter tho.

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Author JamesPosted on 22nd January 2011Categories UncategorizedTags Android, GPS, KML, KMLInfo, OpenLayers, OpenStreetMap

Worse than a troll

Most internet sites have them – users who are downright rude, nasty and offensive to others.

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Author JamesPosted on 17th January 2011Categories UncategorizedTags stackoverflow

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