Elphin

The Elphin site has been due a makeover for some time. I’ll be moving technical posts from my personal blog to here, and showcasing recent projects. Excuse the dust while I set it up – I’m exorcising ten years of cruft from the site!

Last October I found a bug in PHP’s SOAP module. It was pretty obscure bug in the way PHP used Digest authentication. As it was a showstopper for me, I submitted a bug report and wrote a patch to fix it.
It took a while, but my patch has finally been merged into the 5.* and [...]

Something Geograph has needed for some time is a way to get at the entire archive without causing us huge bandwidth bills – it’s currently around 100GB in size.
So I’m please to announce http://torrents.geograph.org.uk/ where you will be able to download the entire archive via BitTorrent!
More details…
We’re going to release the archive as a series [...]