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Recently I’ve been reading about and playing with Microdata. For those who’ve never heard of Microdata, you may have heard of microformats or RDFa. Still no? Let me explain.
Web sites are made up of lots of interesting information. [...]
I’ve recently been working on a gallery type web site for a local artist. It’s great when so much content is given to you at the start of a project, but sometimes it can be a real pain preparing all the images to put in your gallery. The problem I was having with these particular [...]
I was recently asked to come up with a script to grab a store’s Google Seller Rating to display it as part of the web site. It’s really quite simple…
I presume CMI stands for checkout merchant ID or something similar. Just browse to your Seller reviews page and grab it from the query string. [...]
Lots of organisations take orders over the phone as well as through their web site, and lots of those use the SagePay Virtual Terminal.
This is a really handy service, but it’s not very integrated. Although there are generally more elegant solutions available to companies who wish to spend more and put more development time [...]
A handy little tip I picked up while playing with serializing OpenCV objects to XML was the feature that allowed you to share files in your documents folder in iTunes. A good example of this is Broken Sword 2, which lets you access your save files:
I wanted to make this available so that I [...]
Sometimes the seemingly hardest things turn out to be the easiest things. My iPhone app has to detect objects using the SURF method, and although it was working, it was working very slowly. A bit of debugging showed that a large proportion of the wait was being created by cvExtractSURF(). The interesting thing here was [...]
Employing computer vision techniques such as object detection in your very first iPhone app is probably being a little bit cruel to yourself. Alas, this is what my task was, and using OpenCV, I planned on sticking a big fat dent in the rather steep learning curve.
Fortunately for me, with the assistance of some [...]
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