Category Archives: Code

Where did I put that nifty function I wrote?

Posted on 2010-10-21 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

I know everyone probably knows this, but I’m noting this here, more for my benefit than other people’s. Consider the following (addled Alzheimers programmers are familiar I’m sure…) About to write a new script but sure that you’ve done something … Continue reading →

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Total Geek-out

Posted on 2010-06-09 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

After a very inspiring meeting with Peter Vasil who along with his colleagues has been working with us on our own GPS tracks and more recently the visualisation for The Monday Walks project we’re making with students from the University … Continue reading →

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Great Perl Script for GPX files and OpenStreetMap

Posted on 2010-06-01 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

Two of my favourite things: free and open software that people work on and share with us all and the map that everyone can contribute to have been bought together by Thomas Fischer. He has written and published a Perl … Continue reading →

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Capture bash script

Posted on 2010-05-24 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

The final piece to get my eeepc to take pictures periodically was to wrap up the vlc (see Webcam capture using vlc) and crontab (see Crontab) stuff in a bash script. This is a way of making scripts for the … Continue reading →

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Webcam capture using vlc

Posted on 2010-05-24 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

After many attempts to use different software to take regular pictures with either an external webcam or indeed the one built into the eeepc, I found the only one I could get working was the excellent, versatile vlc. I found … Continue reading →

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