Why global warming should be taken with a pinch of salt
Just the other day, a prime example of why you need to take global warming stuff with a pinch of salt. The problem? Not enough data. NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite...
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Cornelia Funke’s new book ‘Reckless’
Well here I am at 1:50am doing server watching duty. Why? It is the release of Cornelia Funke’s new book called Reckless, and the server I’m watching is the official website. If anything goes wrong...
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Bizarre and quirky things
Well I’ve finally gotten the Luxury Homes Australia Blog going which has got some pretty cool things. We send them out as a newsletter every week or so. I’ve also managed to finally find a very tall...
View Article4chan and AFACT
4chan has been on a rampage against any anti-piracy groups who annoy them and the list of casualties is pretty long. Yesterday they attacked AFACT (Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft) and...
View ArticlePropertyNow and Google Crawl Stats
PropertyNow Real Estate has just recently opened its doors to agents and its done so in a big way. A very large number of agents have already signed up and more are coming. So much so, Google has taken...
View ArticleGoogle Crawl Rate – Wow!
Well usually Google’s maximum crawl rate in Google Webmaster Tools is limited to 0.5 requests/second as the fastest rate possible with the slider. The growth of PropertyNow however has caused that...
View ArticleApartments Australia is now Live!
Apartments Australia is a new real estate portal we have created to focus on Apartments, Townhouses and Units. We’ve given it a modern design, quite unlike most real estates on the net today. It also...
View ArticleAustralian Aerial Photography
We’ve recently been provided with some really high aerial photography of various places such as Armidale, Batemans Bay, Broulee, Forster and Narooma. It goes down from 10 to 6 cm resolution on the...
View ArticleStrip all but certain characters from a string in PHP (such as alphanumeric,...
The #1 result in Google for stripping characters out of strings in PHP is awful and uses the deprecated ereg_replace function so lets make a new search result using preg_replace which is much better,...
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Cheat in Candy Crush Saga: Easier than you think
Well the other day I took a little peek at Candy Crush Saga’s security mechanisms and I found them somewhat lacking. It is trivial to skip levels and input arbitrary scores and their servers will...
View ArticleMassive 3.6 meter tall LED Multi coloured Christmas Tree
I’ve spent the last few months designing and building this RGB LED multi coloured tree. What you see is over 500 leds where every single one can be controlled independently to show 16 million...
View ArticleReal Estate API
I’ve been working on a fairly comprehensive API for all real estate related data. It includes most of the data on properties, the real estate agents, agency data and some CRM functions. Very useful for...
View ArticleStrip all but certain characters from a string in PHP (such as alphanumeric,...
The #1 result in Google for stripping characters out of strings in PHP is awful and uses the deprecated ereg_replace function so lets make a new search result using preg_replace which is much better,...
View ArticleCreating a full maps stack without Google
After Google increased their map prices significantly (by about 100x in my case) I had to set about finding alternatives. It turned out the DIY approach was far easier than I expected and is saving...
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