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Tag Archives: Programming

Find nearest tube station

When I first released Blunderground I put together a ToDo in the README of cool features I could implement if I get some time, one of which read: “Zoom to nearest station (get location from OSM)”. Well, Neil recently got a Pre and decided that a good way to learn the WebOS API’s etc would […]

Blunderground

Recently I wrote about doing some hacking for the Palm WebOS to create a tube app for K. It’s now in a reasonably usable form so I’ve put up a noddy website and a clone of my repository is available on GitHub. As it’s at a stage where it works for the person I wrote […]

Mojo Hacking

Recently K had a software update on her Palm Pre, following this we decided to checkout the state of the app store. The conversation was brief: “Is there a tube map yet?” “Nope, I’m afraid not. Still nothing.” “Can’t you write me one? You like programming ….” “Well, yes. I do. I can …” Irrefutable […]

Functionally and parenthetically curious

As geeks are want to do I oft end up in the pub talking programming, philosophy, etc. In the course of these conversations things are said which people disagree with, that’s just to be expected. I have a habit of going home following such a discussion and researching the answers to any questions which are […]