Idea Dump 2011

I’m constantly thinking of ideas, and I find myself wanting to develop all of them. Unfortunately I’m just one incredibly handsome man, and all my time is spent on BugMuncher.

It’s starting to feel like these ideas are weighing me down, I find myself dividing my thoughts between all of them, and I want out.

So I’m going to put these ideas here, for all to see, in the hope that it offloads them from by brain. If you like any of these ideas please feel free to take them and develop them. All I ask is that you let me know, as I’d love to see how it turns out. (more…)

Posted in: Programming,Technology by Matt Bearman on 30th December 2011 at 11:19 am
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Sometimes you have to manage memory in PHP

I’m currently working on a Google maps based project for a client, which deals with large numbers of points and overlays. At one point in the program I was getting around 16,000 Lat/Lng points from the database, which formed 70 polygons. Before the polygons could be rendered on Google Maps, I needed to group the points by polygon in an array. (more…)

Posted in: Programming by Matt Bearman on 2nd December 2011 at 3:53 pm
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