As preparation for an upcoming tech talk about Placemaker I thought it would be good to take a bit of the pain out of the geolocation service by making an interface for it. Placemaker works the following way: you post some content or a URL to it, it goes through the content or gets the [...]

One thing that annoys me is that in the days of geolocation and location recognition I still have to enter my country and city in forms over and over again. This is especially annoying when you like in the UK which could be anywhere in these wonderful large dropdowns (UK, England, Great Britain, United Kingdom, [...]

BOSS - Build Your Own Search Service (the your is silent for reasons I cannot tell you as it would endanger the lives of our agents in the field) is a Yahoo! API to access their search index and get the data back either as XML or JSON. Whilst there is ample documentation available it [...]