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Updated website

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Dro.me.uk ScreenshotIt’s taken a while, but I have now updated my personal website dro.me.uk. There was a while in which of looked similar to the current appearance, although lacking any useful information, so I have updated the list of projects and made a few fairly minor design changes.

There are still a few bits I think could be improved, and probably more areas that should be improved but I am missing, so any feedback would be appreciated, either by email or as a comment on this post.

Updating the project list also gave me a good reason to get some of those old projects made years ago running again. These include:

  • News map – the one project to have actually made it into a magazine, despite how simple it is. I do want to get the over map working again, as it actually tries to map stories to more precise locations. The database for that appears to have been misplaced though.
  • Traffic map – data from the BBC’s travel feeds shown on a map.
  • TV listings – showing BBC TV listings in a very AJAXy interface, updating as you scroll through them. Probably one of the most technically challenging ones here.

Anyway, comments on any of those are welcome below.

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HTML Spacer/Checker

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

One of the most useful things I have made in the past few months is a tool to properly space HTML (as it is shockingly hard to actually do that in the source code, and keep it nicely intented after modifying it a lot), and also find where tags aren’t closed properly, are closed too many times or the tags are closed in the wrong order.

It is something that was partly spawned from the compilers unit I did last year at uni, as it is basically a recursive descent HTML parser, and as such it does a fairly good job of parsing the HTML. There are a few bugs in it, but I think it is mostly usable even with the few small bugs.

I have used it on numerous occasions, and quite simply it is amazingly useful. Just a quick warning though, you can quite easily get lots of errors , and they can all spawn off one or two small errors earlier in the script, so make sure you fix the first one first (This is generally good programming practise anyway).

If you want to try it out, go to:

http://syn.dro.me.uk/htmlspace/

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New Blog!

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

Well, I’m back!

It has been a while since I last had a blog that I actually updated, mainly because over about the past few months I have been trying to make my own blog entirely.  Yesterday I realised that I haven’t made any progress on it since about September, and decided to install WordPress, which I have had some experience with in my job.

One of the things I have had in my mind for the past few weeks was the design for the blog, which you can see now.  It is actually about the 4th design (only one I implemented for wordpress though), and my favourite of them all.  I still need to code something to change the image at the top, but before doing that I will need to decide how to make it change.   The options being either having it random, or based on some other information like the current weather.

So, hopefully I will update this a bit more often.  Still a few things I need to change on it (things like the About page, links and the previously mentioned header image), but that should be done fairly soon.

This blog has already had a few visitors, including the people I live with and Renegade who have been commenting on the design, and SEF (You found it surprisingly quickly).  If any of you have any comments on the design, please feel free to tell me either via email or in the comments here.

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