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Queen Mother Theatre 26 Aug 2013 | 09:14 pm
The Queen Mother Theatre website features information about the theatre and it's acting societies, as well a list of "what's on" and a custom-built online booking system with PayPal integration. Over...
Project Swapfig - a Collectable Minifig trading site 11 Apr 2013 | 04:09 pm
In 2010 The LEGO Group introduced a new concept to its product line: Collectable Minifigures in blind packaging[*]. The idea is that the consumer collects all the minifigures in a "series" (there are ...
Secret Codes and Buried Treasure? No, it's not the Famous Five 9 Feb 2013 | 07:33 pm
A few years ago I wrote an online Enigma Machine Emulator in Javascript. I did it not only because I could (sometimes the only reason necessary), but also because I'd recently visited Station X (Bletc...
Wheelchair (Standard, Sports and Powerchair) 19 Jan 2013 | 04:20 pm
There is no official Lego minifigure-scale wheelchair (there is a Duplo-scale one), so I designed my own for my minifigure avatar (or "sigfig" as we call them in the AFOL world). Then I designed a cou...
End of an Era - FalcoPhiles.co.uk is closing 4 Jan 2013 | 10:55 pm
One of the very first websites I built (back in1999, but proto-existing before that) is finally closing for good. FalcoPhiles, a fan site dedicated to the historical novels of Lindsey Davis, has techn...
Introducing MPD-Tally - Multi-Part Document Tally 28 Dec 2012 | 11:18 pm
MLCad, a part of the LDraw System Of Tools available at www.ldraw.org, is a powerful application for designing LEGO® models, especially its facility for creating multi-part documents - that is, models...
Textpattern Plugin: lmd_cleanup 12 Jul 2012 | 03:51 pm
Current version: 0.2.1. Strips extra white-space and line-breaks left behind by Textpattern tags in Page/Form templates.
Developing Android Apps (Part 3) 28 Jun 2012 | 04:17 am
In the last thrilling installment of "Developing Android Apps" I was still waiting for my new laptop computer to arrive. Well, the very next day, it did! After eagerly unpacking the laptop, plugging ...
Developing Android Apps (Part 2) 13 Jun 2012 | 12:21 am
In the previous article, I had emailed an acquaintance for advice (Mike Imrie, NeatWits) and got as far as purchasing a new laptop computer in order to turn it into a dual-boot Windows/Linux system. ...
Developing Android Apps (Part 1) 12 Jun 2012 | 01:17 am
It started with a new Android smartphone, my first smartphone in fact. I got it into my head that I wanted to develop Android applications. The only problem is that none of my prior programming experi...