A project I’m working on at the moment had a requirement for reverse geocoding (ie: taking a set of latitude / longitude co-ordinates and returning a placename) of some data coming from an iPhone application. There’s plenty of information available for doing address to long/lat encoding using google maps and the like, but not much […]
One of the brilliant things about jquery is that it’s so easy to extend, whether that be by writing your own full blown plugin, or with a quick 1 liner to add new functionality. Here’s a couple that I always find handy. First up, adding an ‘exists’ function, so you can do this: if ($(selector).exists()){ […]
I use subversion quite extensively for PHP code versioning (in particular the excellent Redmine software project management tool has a built in subversion server) and recently had a requirement to produce a set of files that had changed from one revision to another. Specifically my repository has some changes committed to it that I don’t […]