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1st June 2008

ISO 3166-1 country names and corresponding ISO 3166-1-alpha-2 codes

All the country names and codes as HTML, javascript, python, etc. Perfect for "Country" drop-downs on registration forms.

Tags: code, html, python

1st June 2008

Gordon's bread and butter pudding recipe.

Cooked this tonight. Officially the best bread&butter evar.

Tags: recipe

30th May 2008

TypePad AntiSpam.

Akismet has competition. There's a Wordpress plugin and TechCrunch reckon the service is superior.

Tags: wordpress

30th May 2008

fbCal.

Generate iCal calendars from your Facebook events and friend's birthdays.

Tags: facebook

28th May 2008

Google LatLong: Google Earth, meet the browser.

Blurring the lines between Google Maps and Earth, with Google Earth in your browser.

Tags: gearth, googlemaps

27th May 2008

AJAX Libraries API - Google Code

Google hosted jQuery, moo, etc. Serves up the js faster than your single VPS server, and the files will probably already be in the browser's cache.

Tags: hosting, jquery

27th May 2008

Adobe Fireworks CS4 Beta

New Version of Fireworks. Sounds good from the description...

Tags: graphics

23rd May 2008

Debugging Django

Write up of the "Debugging Django" talk Simon gave at the DJUGL meeting I attended last week in London. Much worthwhile advice within.

Tags: django

23rd May 2008

Typogridphy

Another CSS grid layout framework, this time with specific css for typographical niceties. Hopefully it doesn't enforce the monotone look that seems to go hand in hand with the "typographical web design" meme.

Tags: css, typography

21st May 2008

Battle at Kruger.

Animals fighting on YouTube make nature documentary cool again. The voiceovers are definitely not giving Attenborough a run for his money, so watching on mute misses nothing.

Tags: video

James Turnbull elsewhere: LinkedIn, Facebook, Django People

James Turnbull is a web developer from Edinburgh and living in Oxford. This website is a link-dump of things he found online.

James is New Media Director at digital healthcare agency Incuna and developed the popular Google Earth "things-to-see" website, Google Sightseeing. You can buy the spin-off book Not in the Guide Book at all good bookshops.

Posts from Google Sightseeing

Portmeirion & The Prisoner

Portmeirion is a small resort village in North Wales famous for its Italianate architecture, and for being the setting for a sinister late-1960s TV show called The Prisoner, which starred Patrick McGoohan as “Number Six”. Portmeirion…
Posted on 22nd May 2013

Great panoramic views over Turin from the “Turin Eye”: a massive, tethered hot air balloon

Great panoramic views over Turin from the “Turin Eye”: a massive, tethered hot air balloon http://POSTURLHERE #streetview
Posted on 8th May 2013

brb, just taking my pet alpaca out for lunch.

<img src="http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/streetview?size=482x323&location=-41.382093,146.324777&fov=40&heading=327.71088790233074&pitch=-9.0897780244173&sensor=false" />
Posted on 8th May 2013

Rozenburg Wind Wall

The Netherlands is renowned for being a very flat1 and windy country. In the western town of Rozenburg the strong sea winds created problems for shipping on an important canal, so a unique2 solution was created&#8230;
Posted on 7th May 2013