Sep 10 2009
PRONI, the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland, have launched a searchable archive of Belfast Street Directories dating back as far as 1819.
Street Directories are books containing a listing of the names, addresses and occupations of the inhabitants of Belfast as well as lists of commercial establishments operating in the city, and so are a vital resource for historical and genealogical researchers. Having them easily searchable online is a big step forward.
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Sep 1 2009
Following a prompt from the man himself, Alex King, I’ve made a small update to my YOURLS plugin for Twitter Tools 2.0 to make the YOURLS API URI configurable from the Wordpress administration interface.
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Aug 27 2009
The troubles of URL shortening service tr.im continue. First the tr.im service went down, seemingly forever, then it was restored, then just recently it taken offline again due to their network provider thinking they were a spam spreading service. I had been using tr.im up until now to publicise posts from my various blogs on Twitter, but with this latest downtime and the reason for it, I decided it was time I hosted my own URL shortening service.
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Aug 25 2009
Instil Software are helping to organise a Java DevDays event in Belfast, following the highly successful iPhone DevDays held in April. It’s early days and Instil are currently looking for speakers and topics. If you have any suggestions, be sure to let them know.
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Aug 18 2009
I attended the August installment of Refresh Belfast, a regular but informal get-together for local developers and creatives, on Monday night. The evening was an introduction to Ecliptic Labs, a brand new user experience company based in Belfast who have been working extensively on projects for the iPhone.
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