So finally I’ve gotten round to blogging our crazy event! The basic motivation behind the 24 hour coding extravaganza is to finally get some work done! Nick and I are always planning new projects which never seem to take off, maybe because we are serial procrastinators (or at least I am)! 
From Thursday 31st August, midday till Friday the 1st September midday, we plan to spend our time working on various different programming related projects.
You can catch up on the action by watching our almost live (one frame every five seconds!) webcam. Expect special guest appearances from Adam Cosnett and Tom Vickers!
Things I hope to start work on: HowToUseA.com and Delta CMS.
I might make a few posts here throughout, and as usual, a flurry of random photos will appear on Flickr during or more likely, after the 24 hours.
Filed under: Web Applications
What a great idea, sort your photos by their location! Perhaps Yahoo! maps offers greater detail in its native America, I can say that the UK coverage is poor, bordering on unusable! For instance, I thought I’d tag one of my holiday photos taken in Otford, the street map contains the motorway but very little else, so to pinpoint the exact location I thought the satellite view would help, and here comes the disappointing part… the satellite photo was either horribly out of date, or wasn’t even a image of Otford!
Me and Nick wondered why the system wasn’t based around Google Maps, then we remembered Flickr is owned by Yahoo! No-brainer 
So currently only three of my photos are geotagged! But still it’s an amazing idea, and its caught on, within 24 hours 1,234,384 photos were tagged by location!
Filed under: Digg
Ever wonder how these GPS devices get their information? Yes, there is actually a dude driving around the US mapping it for you, and we tag along to see how it’s done.
Met up with Nick, Vickers and Adam today to collect our AS results from college. In no particular order, my results were:
- General Studies: C
- Sociology: C
- Use of Maths: E
- Business Studies: C
- ICT: C
Flickr’s been around for a while, it’s a popular web2.0 application, used to share photos. I’ve never had the will to sign up, perhaps because I’ve never needed photo sharing capabilities before!
This move to embrace some of the popular web2.0 services was brought on while messing about customising this WordPress blog, I enabled some of the sidebar widgets, including the Flickr and del.icio.us plug-ins.
I decided “what’s the worst that could happen?” - I’ll go and signup. So impressed by the number of options and the sheer AJAXy power of Flickr, I decided to become a Pro member! However del.icio.us was a little more disappointing, I can see the general idea behind social bookmarking, but it simply doesn’t appeal to me. Nevertheless I will continue my attempt to become more web2.0!
I’m writing this post from Flickr, and in case you’re wondering who that guy is, its Mr Tom Vickers!
