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Re: http://tumblr.iamdanw.com/post/3143639036

Dan W — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:16:54 -0000

Thanks. The link must have been cut off somehow

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Tom Morris — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 13:32:50 -0000

You are talking about wkhtmltopdf right? http://code.google.com/p/wk...

If you are on a Mac, you can use wkpdf which is simpler and cuts out the Qt dependency: http://plessl.github.com/wk...

Re: http://tumblr.iamdanw.com/post/2324108924

Cristiano Betta — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 08:13:23 -0000

It was a pretty damn good movie year. Amazed at how many of those movies I've seen actually (and also amazed at how many I haven't).

Re: Dan W, Web App + Mobile Developer in London — How to mute Spotify adverts automatically

Tristan — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 16:48:45 -0000

http://blog.designalism.com...
That is the same blog, but with an updated post, at the bottom you can download blockify, it is smaller and faster than mutify, I love it, invaluable tool.

Re: http://tumblr.iamdanw.com/post/1077797177

Dan W — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:19:07 -0000

Yeah, weekend might be enough to finish one app. Perhaps a month like http://appril.org is wiser.

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Cristiano Betta — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:08:11 -0000

I have maybe 5, but I'm already realizing that 1 weekend is not going to be enough. Ugh. WombleMonth?

Re: London Undersound & Oyster Challenge - My openHackDay apps

andymadge — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 09:33:55 -0000

Hi,

did you ever release the code for importing tube journeys? I've just started writing something to access that data myself so I'm looking for tips ;-)

Re: http://tumblr.iamdanw.com/post/571211577

Dan W — Tue, 04 May 2010 14:15:06 -0000

Took me ages to figure that out. It's quite clever. They only have to dig up the pavement once. Any upgrades or removing monoliths can be done fast and without disruption. They installed the whole of phase 1 in the same morning. Similar approach is being used for London cycle hire scheme, all the foundations are already installed awaiting the racks to be slotted in.

It seems that legible London is fantastically designed, even down to the tiny details.

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Bashford — Tue, 04 May 2010 13:09:08 -0000

Thanks. I was wondering what that was.

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Tom Scott — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 06:13:33 -0000

Dredging into my memories from a couple of years ago...

Do go to Alcatraz, it's a National Park and not a tourist trap. The Museé Mecanique further down the Embarcadero isn't bad, but avoid the rest of Fisherman's Wharf, that really is a tourist trap.

Check Upcoming - in San Francisco, it's actually useful from time to time.

Eat a proper San Francisco burrito. There's always an argument about which is the best - but Pancho Villa Taqueria is generally pretty good, and frequently has lines out of the door.

If you do one club night, go to Bootie at the DNA Lounge on Saturday night. Absolutely worth it.

It's worth signing up temporarily to goldstar.com - the deals there are worth it, and they'll happily let you unsubscribe afterwards (at least, they did for me). Most of them you won't want, but occasionally things like half price segway tours arrive. (Try searching by date - http://www.goldstar.com/eve... )

Oh, and seriously - buy a guidebook before you go. I know, it's old-school, but I always find them worth it.

Re: Violet, makers of Mirror & Nabaztag, have filled for bankruptcy — Dan W, Web App + Mobile Developer in London

Dan W — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 06:41:54 -0000

There's a link in the post: http://bitbucket.org/andrew...

Re: Violet, makers of Mirror & Nabaztag, have filled for bankruptcy — Dan W, Web App + Mobile Developer in London

James — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:23:33 -0000

Hello-

I'm on a mac and I was wondering if there was any way I could get ahold of this software. Is that possible? I have two Mir:rors and I really don't want them to go to waste.

Thanks in advance!
James

Re: Loveliest Weather Site I’ve ever seen — Dan W, Web App + Mobile Developer in London

utku — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:34:36 -0000

Ahem. :-)

http://utku.tumblr.com/post...

Re: Headmap Manifesto - After first encountering it... — Dan W, Web App + Mobile Developer in London

Dan W — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:39:32 -0000

I have no idea I'm afraid. I've only received copies passed person to person.

Re: Headmap Manifesto - After first encountering it... — Dan W, Web App + Mobile Developer in London

anderslovlie — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:11:03 -0000

Hey,
thanks for sharing this! I just finished an earlier version of the text and didn't know this extended version existed. But as an academic I need some reference information - reliable info as to who the author is and when and where it was published. The text itself doesn't state this, and the link to headmap.org returns an empty page. I've seen it referred to as Ben Russell and the year 1999, but the version I read referred to sources from 2000, so at least the year was wrong... Do you know where to find this information?

Regards,
Anders S. Løvlie
Univ. of Oslo / UC Berkeley

Re: “Passive surveillance” of the new Dublin Bikes -... — Dan W, Web App + Mobile Developer in London

johnl — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:12:56 -0000

Haven't provided ANY benches ;)

Re: A palimpsest for a place: TheIncidental at Salone... — Dan W, Web App + Mobile Developer in London

Charles — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:15:43 -0000

The Incidental has been relaunched for the London Design Festival - they invite people to check the website and join the conversation http://www.theincidental.org/

Re: London Undersound & Oyster Challenge - My openHackDay apps

Doug Aitken — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:07:54 -0000

(found this via your tweet earlier)
It's for hacks like this that I wish I lived in London. Living in Scotland, (and especially Dundee!) has its limitations for things like this.

Its a great start on what I think & hope could be something even better if an official API was to be released. Do you know if there is talk of one?
Obviously security is a major factor but being able to have travel data updated almost in realtime without the need of checking into the site.

Re: When we tally these incidents it creates a very... — Dan W, Web App + Mobile Developer in London

Dan W — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:06:42 -0000

I really like that story. Particularly the UAV/mobile basestation. I wonder the legality of building an autonomous airship that flies around London, seeking out interesting things to photograph and broadcast.

Re: Bike of the future will pay you back for all of... — Dan W, Web App + Mobile Developer in London

Ben Kraal — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:58:18 -0000

Lovely. If I could get my students who are into bikes to consider something this radical and this well thought-out, they'd be doing well.

Re: Dan W, Web App + Mobile Developer in London — How to mute Spotify adverts automatically

Rex Kramer — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:07:55 -0000

There is a program for windows to do this. http://www.mutify.blogspot....

Re: When we tally these incidents it creates a very... — Dan W, Web App + Mobile Developer in London

Tom Scott — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:48:09 -0000

I wrote this - http://www.tomscott.com/mob/ - last year. Suddenly it doesn't seem quite so far-away.

Re: Facebook knows The Daily Mail is evil — Dan W, Web App + Mobile Developer in London

Cristiano Betta — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:39:07 -0000

Facebook shows this for every external link

Re: Dear newspapers: Where are the links?

Cristiano Betta — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:43:39 -0000

The problem for newspapers is that they don't control the link destinations.

Imagine someone makes a fun hack, say ShouldIBackupMy.com, which gets written about on the BBC site. Then at a certain moment said hacker forgets to extend his domain subscription after which some leecher fetches the domain because it has Google love, and puts kiddy porn on the page. Next up some concerned mom finds the link on the BBC site and clicks through and gets the scare of her life. She then writes an angry complaint, saying the BBC is a disgrace to her taxpayer's money, etc.

As you can see, it's a pain to include links without them biting you in the ***.

Re: I have my dConstruct ticket — Dan W, Web App + Mobile Developer in London

Dan W — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:46:29 -0000

Good luck! Might be tricky since it's all interesting designery things instead of practical "heres how to use technology x" talks