July 29th, 2006 at 9:57 pm
(Apple)
I finally gave in to the urge and splurged on a MacBook Pro. I have to say, typing this post on it is sweeeeet indeed.
Although purchasing an Intel Mac laptop was an eventuality, the timeline got pushed forward with my desktop box dying on me (more specifically, the graphics card). I figured, what the hey, I’ll just replace the desktop all together. It was also quite fortunate that EpiCentre@Orchard was having a promotion on the MBP. The S$4288 model was going for S$3488, that just sealed the deal for me.
Next will be the setting up of NAS for the hard disks in the desktop for all those media files.
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July 11th, 2006 at 10:30 pm
(Software Development)
I have an idea for a non-commercial web application that involves people and places where these folks can hang out. So I figured that having location maps would be rather useful. However, I’m targeting a very narrow market: people who live in Singapore. Google Maps may have the world mapped out but their maps of Singapore does not go down into the level of detail that I’m looking for.
Looking for help in singapore.rb, I was informed that the more prominent provider of location maps in Singapore, Streetdirectory.com is not at all friendly to having external data consumers make use of its copyrighted geodata. However, approaching can.com.sg and sg.pagenation.com might prove more fruitful. I’ve sent both an email asking whether an API is available for their services. Just gotta wait for their replies then.
Update
That was fast, about 10 minutes after sending the email, I received a reply from Peter Tong of pagenation.com. Unfortunately, pagenation does not currently have an API. Bummer, that leaves screen scraping as a solution. However, he is very accomodating of any and all requests to link to the maps, I love that.
Another Update
The reply from can.com.sg came in about 2 days, it appears that they do not have an API as well as don’t plan to offer it anytime soon. I was referred to Agis Pte Ltd instead. This is the company that supplies map data to can.com.sg, another source to check out, I suppose.
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July 4th, 2006 at 3:40 pm
(Ruby)
The newly minted singapore.rb will be meeting this Wednesday in the city area. This will be the first meeting between the members so it would be fun matching the messages in the Ruby and Rails list to faces.
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