It’s now about a year since I started writing my first book, a novel, a science fiction novel and I am still writing. It’s been an experience which has travelled the world with me and let me travel the world through it. Started on a bit of a whim it has become an all encompassing […]
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Writing a book. Yeah its a novel, Science fiction…1 year later
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ODesk and outsourcing
Back to it again, the portfolio needs a bit of a push so I am adding a few new sites into the mix this time in niche’s discovered with a new formula pulling from several new data sets. Ah the wonders of purchasable and scrapeable data online / via api – the formula was refined […]
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Small update for Reddit Wallpaper Grabber
Just a quick update for the reddit wallpaper grabber which some of you reported issues with. In fact it was more just that reddit was under heavy load and lazily I had no pretty error handling in there. So I quickly added a notification so as to clear up the times when reddit is inaccessible. […]
Forget Inertia – A new era.
There is by far enough written words about the freedom and positives of leaving ones established job, for better or for worse I think it is the right way forward for me, now. I have had a long list of things to post about, technology thoughts and projects completed; now thankfully I have the control […]
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Facebook Graph Api – Is user a fan of page id – Using FQL and opengraph to mimic Pages.IsFan
Working with integration of Facebook Connect for authentication is mostly easy at the moment, once you have got your head around FBML etc. However as they are in between switching from the old Restful API and the new graph API there remains the odd little thing that has only a splatter of useful documentation online. […]
Also posted in Facebook Graph API, Facebook Pages, PHP, Social Media, Web Development Tagged facebook, fan gating, fan page, FQL
Google BigQuery and Predictions API – Swap data for processing time?
Something led me to happen across the following video from google I/O 2010 which gives a full expo (57 minutes) on their BigQuery and Prediction API’s. You can see they have made a lot of ground with ridiculous processing, claiming to be able to run SQL queries (or a derivative) on trillion’s of rows in […]
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Indie remapping of classic films
A short while ago I read a press release about a software capable of producing 3d models of moving characters from a piece of video, I was certain the link was on reddit but I cannot find it. Anyhow it got me thinking about the uses for this, should it progress to a viable standard […]
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Arbitrage Betting – Programmatically finding arbitrage bets
Betting arbitrage, miraclebets, surebets, sports arbitraging is a particular case of arbitrage arising on betting markets due to either bookmakers’ different opinions on event outcomes or plain errors. By placing one bet per each outcome with different betting companies, the bettor can make a profit. As long as different Bookmakers are used for arbitrage betting […]
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