Web Developer

Occasionally I talk about stuff and build some things (you know, websites, applications, jQuery plugins and the like) and this is where I try to write about them.

I work as a web developer for One Black Bear in Birmingham, UK

Python Parameter Parsing to Array

04 Mar 2010

general

As I'm new to Python (I've started to use Google App Engine for a project) I might have this totally wrong, but Python doesn't seem to have a nice way to convert the GET/POST request data in to an array.

As I'm from a PHP background, this is a real pain, so I wrote a class to handle it...

02 Mar 2010

general

As we add more functionality to the IM Group API keeping up with the documentation changes can be painful. To keep on top of it, I made a useful git pre-commit script which reads and downloads xml data in order to keep the example files up to date.

With more people using the API I've started to receive requests for an up to date schema, so time to automate that as well...

24 Feb 2010

general

With the new Subaru UK site in development we've been expanding on the functionality of the API. Unfortunately, this means updating documentation... boo.. As we've been making many changes with several more to come, I made a simple ruby script to read a yaml config file, fetch and save the files.

22 Feb 2010

work

So I've not blogged for a while and this is part of the reason (the other part is I'm lazy).. We've been very busy working on the new website for Subaru UK; once it is live I'll post and update.

15 Feb 2010

web

With the up coming Multipack Hack day to work on a green focused end product I thought I'd make use of the newly released data from the government and google charts new api to make something useful.

I've gone for recycling per region during 2005/2006 in 1000s of tonnes and plugged in a few different chart types. When I get a bit more time will improve this.

All the javascript is inline (I know, very naughty..) so feel free to use whatever you want; although some backlinks would be nice!