Laws, Sausages and Websites

Fri, 03 Feb 2006 20:01:13 +0000

The esteemed Mr Handelaar recently opined that Websites should join the list of Laws and Sausages as things you shouldn't see being made.

Can't argue with that, and I'm exposing the guts a bit here more than I'd like. But you'll have to live with that, eh?

So, the site is here. ~~This theme's a bit pret a porter, and it'll develop once I've lived in it a bit, and when I get time to work on it.~~ I've moved from the initial Bonsai theme to one of my own design. It's all fixed width, based on Golden Sections.

The old content's still over in Zope, and as it's not in a standard RDBMS, extracting it and porting it will be a bit of a manual labour. But I'll be bringing it back as and when I get time, and it'll be at the same old URLs thanks to Drupal's Path module.

Mapping Ireland

Fri, 27 Jan 2006 23:26:30 +0000

That nice Handelaar fellow has been busy lately, working on a number of projects supporting an Irish version of WriteToThem (né FaxYourMP).

The most recent one is a mapping project, to enable you to place a given address on a map, without paying an absurd amount of money for the dataset.

So, here it is: The Holy Grail of Irish Geocoding. Put in a street address and town in Ireland, and out pops a lat/long pair and a Google Map to go with. With which, we discover that my sister lives in a field.

easyweb.co.uk - genghis

Laws, Sausages and Websites

Mapping Ireland