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Flat vs. Sphere 16 Jul 2013 | 01:33 pm
Flat vs. Sphere London, UK Tuesday, July 16th 2013, 09:33 BST For the preparation of my Finding Pubs... (and other things) presentation that I gave at the PHP NorthWest usergroup some time ago I cr...
What Time is It Here? 24 Jun 2013 | 01:33 pm
What Time is It Here? London, UK Monday, June 24th 2013, 09:33 BST Finding out what time it is, is often as simple as looking at a clock. But when you need to know the time on another place on Eart...
Importing OpenStreetMap data into MongoDB 11 Jun 2013 | 01:49 pm
Importing OpenStreetMap data into MongoDB London, UK Tuesday, June 11th 2013, 09:49 BST In many recent MongoDB related presentations I have used OpenStreetMap data as basis for most of my examples....
Crowd-serfing 12 Apr 2013 | 01:27 pm
Crowd-serfing London, UK Friday, April 12th 2013, 09:27 BST Yesterday, Google announced that they have made Google Map Maker available in the United Kingdom. Like OpenStreetMap it allows everybody ...
Iceland trip 25 Mar 2013 | 01:11 pm
Iceland trip London, UK Monday, March 25th 2013, 09:11 GMT Aurora Borealis I have always wanted to see Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) and I never managed to see it the five years I lived in Nor...
MongoDB's aggregation framework 22 Jan 2013 | 02:15 pm
MongoDB's aggregation framework London, UK Tuesday, January 22nd 2013, 09:15 GMT As part of my preparations for my MongoDB workshop at PHP Benelux, I ran into a nice use case for MongoDB's aggregat...
Where is the Sun? 17 Jan 2013 | 02:14 pm
Where is the Sun? London, UK Thursday, January 17th 2013, 09:14 GMT In a previous article I wrote that I am using my Raspberry PI as status screen showing the weather among things, but I wanted to ...
Tweaking the Logitech R400 presenter tool on Linux 9 Jan 2013 | 02:21 pm
Tweaking the Logitech R400 presenter tool on Linux London, UK Wednesday, January 9th 2013, 09:21 GMT Updated on April 9th, 2013, after comments by Jim Diamond For Christmas I received a Logitech R...
OpenStreetMap: A Year of Edits 2012 1 Jan 2013 | 05:04 am
OpenStreetMap: A Year of Edits 2012 London, UK Tuesday, January 1st 2013, 00:04 GMT Just like last year I've analysed all the edits to OpenStreetMap and produced a visualisation. It was a bit trick...
Weather from the Norwegians, sunset and sunrise 21 Dec 2012 | 04:12 pm
Weather from the Norwegians, sunset and sunrise London, UK Friday, December 21st 2012, 11:12 GMT I have recently acquired a Raspberry PI and as a hacking project I am using it as status screen in t...
