Category Archives: webdev

The Poker Tree are launching a brand new concept for Pub Poker in the UK

By Jim | July 14, 2009

The Poker Tree is launching their national pub and bar poker gaming concept throughout the UK in July 2009. With hundreds of pubs already on board and more signing up every day, the poker league will be reaching all corners of the country over the coming months. By operating a national points driven league system [...]

Also posted in Social Media | Tagged network, poker, social, thepokertree | 2 Comments

Kleenex Twitter Hayfever Mashup

By Jim | June 3, 2009

A great use of social media here from my friends at AD, done in a similar way to the #uksnow map we saw earlier in the year. When a user on Twitter tweets #atishoo + postcode + score out of 5 it gets aggregated on to a map plotting the level of hay fever agitation in that area. [...]

Also posted in health, Social Media | Tagged geocoding, hay fever, kleenex, twitter | 7 Comments

Asp echo()

By Jim | October 3, 2008

This could be seen as a slightly lazy piece of classic asp code but it works for me. Php coders should understand this one. sub echo(input) response.write(replace(input,”‘”,”"”")) end sub The single quote is now essentially being used an escape character similar to php echo which saves having to do double quotes when using response.write to output [...]

Also posted in asp, software | 2 Comments