Posted in Hacking on Oct 22nd, 2011
tl;dr I made an Australian version of Phil Gyford’s Today’s Guardian because I was fed up with Australian online news. I’m not sure it solves my problem but I’m interested to hear what you think of Daily Paper and online news in general. The problem To get my regular news many years ago I used [...]
Posted in Geekery, Hacking, OpenAustralia on Sep 18th, 2011
It’s been too long since I’ve written a post here but I blame it on writing posts for everyone else! I wrote a little post about creating a PlanningAlerts scraper for the Northern Territory for my mum. We ran an OpenAustralia hackfest last weekend and I wrote a blog post that was cross posted on [...]
About seven years ago I bet on the wrong horse. I chose phpWebSite as the CMS to run a site for a community group I’m a part of. Why the wrong horse? Well seven years ago WordPress wasn’t in the game but I do remember evaluating Drupal and whilst it has a vibrant, active community [...]
Posted in Hacking on Jun 21st, 2011
Yesterday I noticed the kerfuffle about the UK’s Tower Bridge Twitter account. It’s a bot that tweets when the Tower Bridge in London opens and closes. In the author’s announcement of the bot he said, The idea of overhearing machines talking about what they’re doing is, to my mind, quite delightful. and I tend to [...]
Posted in Hacking, OpenAustralia on May 27th, 2011
I’ve been using the online (sorry, cloud) open data scraping tool, ScraperWiki for some time now. We’ve written a bunch of scrapers that are being used by PlanningAlerts and I’ve also created a few for other bits of data I am interested in or that I’ve been commissioned by clients to write. For the second [...]
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