Archive for July 2008

Last Summer of Code Bootcamps tonight

Last of the Summer of Code bootcamps tonight
On the menu is Introduction to PHP, .NET and Pizza.
Should be fun…

Xlinks – 31/7/2008

Xlinks is a collections of links as discovered by the ProjectX team.
NZ govt details HTML switch off plans
Added on 07/30/2008 at 02:19PM
The website is down heh
Added on 07/30/2008 at 09:06AM
Techcrunch on Cuil
Added on 07/29/2008 at 08:37PM
Dark Knight and Game Theory
Added on 07/28/2008 at 04:30PM
Firebug lite – Firebug for other browsers
Added on 07/27/2008 at 03:35PM
Ruby [...]

Bus Theory…

For the longest time, I’ve been using the concept of “Bus Theory” when talking to our team. ie. ‘What happens if someone gets run over by a bus’. It’s suppose to make you think about contingency plans and all that stuff.
Unfortunately on the weekend, one of my friends was hit by a bus while he [...]

New google crawling speed record for a ZoomIn place

I was just testing the new add place functionality on ZoomIn and I added the Hippopotamus Restaurant in Wellington to the site. Google crawled the page and put it in the Google index in only 12 minutes and it became the top match! A new record for ZoomIn ! (Previously down from just over 30 [...]

Adding a place on ZoomIn just got a whole lot easier!

We’ve completely overhauled the add place process on ZoomIn. Now, if you want to add a place to ZoomIn is as simple as 1, 2, 3.
1. Drag the Add place marker onto the map
Position the marker with X marks the spot. You can adjust the position by dragging the marker to the correct location.

2. [...]