2010
51 entries
- A letter to David Burrowes
- A letter to my MP on the day of the Digital Economy Bill second reading
- CaboodleA set of mashups for common services for Sinatra, so you could easily pull together bits from elsewhere on the web to make a website.
- ConversativesComedy hack using a proxy to swap words for their opposite on the Conservatives.com website
- DIY-CouncilAn easy to use alternative way of using the web for local authorities in the UK
- Email your candidates
- Email Your CandidatesSend an email to the people standing for office, to ask them all the same question
- GeoPilsenBritish Council hack with the people of Plzn
- GeopinionA little app that let you gather people's opinions about places, particularly for planning.
- Get geo-position coordinates from a UK postcode with RubyIntroducing Pat, an ultra-lightweight Ruby gem for postcode->geolocation in the UK.
- Google-Cache-Sitemap-DownloaderUse your Google sitemap XML file to download a copy of your website from the Google Cache
- Grandma’s House – a short filmFilmdash is an annual 48-hour film-making challenge where participants plan, script, shoot, edit and upload a film based on a theme and an individual brief to include certain lines of dialogue and a prop.
- Heroku_Memcached_Hello_WorldA quick test: Server Marked as Dead on Heroku
- I'm disappointed
- Introducing Caboodle
- LaserBlazerWrite words in the air using your mobile
- Launching a monster startup - Aframe
- Link “Scientists”I get frustrated when I see an interesting article on the web that starts with “Scientists have discovered…” and followed by a surprising new ‘fact’, backed up with a write-up, some quotes but no more information on what the research is, by whom.
- "London Wedding Photographer" Emily QuintonAfter the recent move to London it was time to update partner Emily Quinton's site.
- Many-headedA forked Ruby gem, never described.
- MicrojsonpGet all the microformats from a URL as JSONP
- MakefulnessAeioux - Makefulness
- Monster MountainI surprised a few people on Twitter on my birthday when I spent the evening doing this illustration.
- NUJ Regional Journalism Awards
- PatSimple access to UK postcode geo and administrative data
- Plzen
- Random Play
- Sinmetricskontagent, mixpanel, etc wrappers for sinatra
- SleepyMemcached API calls using Weary
- SpiroArduino spirograph drawings
- Talk About Local Unawards — Best InvestigationBest Investigation at the Talk About Local Unawards — for Help Me Investigate
- TesselationI’ve recently become reminded of an old fascination I had with tesselation. Earlier this year I helped Emily with a design refresh involving this pattern:
- Tweet an MPThe Digital Economy Bill for me is the single-most anger inducing piece of proposed legislation that I’ve yet heard.
- Johann Johannsson — And In The Endless Pause There Came The Sound Of Bees
- The North Sea — Bloodlines
- Yellow Swans — Going Places
- The Alps — Le Voyage
- Jefre Cantu-Ledesma — Love Is A Stream
- Thomas Köner — Nunatak Teimo Permafrost
- Thomas Köner — Nunatak
- Thomas Köner — Permafrost
- Indignant Senility — Plays Wagner Volume 2
- Rene Hell — Porcelain Opera
- Sylvain Chauveau — Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated)
- On — Something That Has Form And Something That Does Not
- Heavy Winged — Sunspotted
- Thomas Köner — Teimo
- Urban Ideas Bakery - Pilsen
- Website-RedirectRedirects all GET requests from www.example.com to example.com (or similar) using Sinatra
- WPRipperIf your wordpress site died, scrape it back from the Google Cache using a sitemap
- Yes and…Something I’ve unconsciously been doing to avoid those kinds of conversations is to start my sentences “yes and” instead of “yes but”.