Traffic reports using twitter as a data source

Following on from my post yesterday, I would like to introduce something I quickly hacked together to show how the kind of thing I was talking about might work. As discussed in yesterday’s article, I already use twitter to provide a data feed for selective traffic alerts. Street Level URLs provides a simple wrapper around […]

Marcus Povey

Following on from my post yesterday, I would like to introduce something I quickly hacked together to show how the kind of thing I was talking about might work. As discussed in yesterday’s article, I already use twitter to provide a data feed for selective traffic alerts. Street Level URLs provides a simple wrapper around […]

Idea: Lets give roads, junctions and intersections URLs

I like feeds and APIs. Feeds and APIs provide ways for others to access a service and to recombine the data in new and unexpected ways. Ways that have consistently been proven to be beneficial to both parties (which makes google’s increasing antipathy towards them an interesting, not to mention short sighted, trend). Anyway, it […]

Marcus Povey

I like feeds and APIs. Feeds and APIs provide ways for others to access a service and to recombine the data in new and unexpected ways. Ways that have consistently been proven to be beneficial to both parties (which makes google’s increasing antipathy towards them an interesting, not to mention short sighted, trend). Anyway, it […]

Regression Testing: If you don’t do it, you’re a fscking idiot.

Opinion: If you embark on building a major project without implementing some sort of automated testing/regression testing framework along side then you are a fool. What? Regression testing is nothing more than a set of automated tests that are written to test certain parts of your code. Tests can be written to test core bits […]

Marcus Povey

Opinion: If you embark on building a major project without implementing some sort of automated testing/regression testing framework along side then you are a fool. What? Regression testing is nothing more than a set of automated tests that are written to test certain parts of your code. Tests can be written to test core bits […]