I’m late to the PHP5 party. When it was released I kicked the tyres, wrote a few sample scripts, but lacked the time and resources to deploy it properly.
But as I’m about to start a large new project, it’s time to bite the bullet!
I’m playing around with Xapian, which is a C++ search library [...]
Thought I’d play around and make a Wordpress plugin to show a selected Geograph image, and form the beginnings of a REST style API for Geograph.
First thing was to provide a way to obtain picture metadata – this was pretty straightforward – requesting a URL like this
http://www.geograph.org.uk/api/photo/40212
Returns an XML result like this
<geograph>
<status state=”ok”/>
<title>From Bygrave to [...]
Producing Open Source Software is a great looking book which you can read online. I’ve only had time to skim a few chapters but it does resonate with my experiences developing Geograph. While some of it can be applied to commercial teams, the majority of it is about dealing with the unique elements of open [...]
