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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in OpenAustralia on Jun 25th, 2010
The good people of SUSE Studio have just released SUSE Gallery, which allows you to share appliances built in SUSE Studio (done with the usual SUSE Studio style I might add – “Enabling Infinite Improbability Drive” is displayed when you enable the new features :) nice!). OpenAustralia DevLive, the ready-to-run OpenAustralia.org and PlanningAlerts development environment, [...]
Posted in Hacking on May 4th, 2010
In the PlanningAlerts project, we recently added a default page title for those pages we forget to add specific titles to. I added the initial code and Matthew did it properly cleaned it up, here’s the diff: 12345678910111213141516diff –git a/app/views/layouts/application.haml b/app/views/layouts/application.haml index 27d81d9..6b42b26 100644 — a/app/views/layouts/application.haml +++ b/app/views/layouts/application.haml @@ -2,10 +2,7 @@ %html(xml:lang="en" lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml") [...]
Posted in OpenAustralia on Apr 9th, 2010
In preparation for the recent OpenAustralia Hackfest – apps4nsw Edition, Matthew asked me to add the Ruby on Rails port of PlanningAlerts to DevLive so that developers could poke around with what was an experimental codebase (it’s now deployed – woohoo!). Unfortunately I wasn’t able to attend the hackfest as I was busy jumping out [...]
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