London Bus Countdown API
Transport for London have a neat little API for accessing the countdown data displayed at bus stops. It’s really easy to use and you can register here. I’ve used...
Colour Schemes for Web Design
I’ve been struggling to choose a colour scheme for this site. I eventually came across http://www.colourlovers.com/ which has thousands of pre-prepared palettes ready...
CoilMQ
I was having a problem with ActiveMQ on my hosted server. Although ActiveMQ is a great message broker it is rather heavy. I was using AMQ as a simple STOMP broker, but it...
NoSQL and MongoDB
NoSQL databases are designed for massive amounts of data, and huge transactional volumes. To cope with these needs some of the normal ACID constraints usual in relational...
Rosetta Code
http://rosettacode.org/ An interesting site showing solutions to common programming problems & tasks. Solutions are presented in a wide variety of different languages...
Raspberry Pi
At last! After several months of waiting my Raspberry Pi is here. A fully functional computer on a single board with USB, ethernet, and HDMI connections. I’m going to try...