Archive for December, 2008

More from the Cowal Peninsula

So much to catch up with…
Before I disappeared I think I was in the middle of posting some pictures from the Cowal Peninsula from a trip there in November. There are a few standing stones down there – this pair were probably both pretty tall, but one was broken off near the ground:

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iStock API

Yesterday I was given an API key, so I’ll start on reworking LiveStock to make use of that.  Current balance and (unordered) recent downloads can come through the API, but details of individual downloads will still have to come from web scraping.  That should be a significant improvement, though.  Not least because the main downloads [...]

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LiveStock speedup

I’m not sure that what I was doing was dumb, but I did a major rework of the internals to do the page parsing in a much dirtier way and that gave a massive speedup. Thankfully! It was really pretty horrible. Now it’s very reasonable.
The poor response of the istock site is [...]

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