Posted on 31 December, 2008 9:10 pm.MartinComments Off
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:
And some [...]
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Posted on 4 December, 2008 5:30 am.MartinComments Off
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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Posted on 1 December, 2008 11:46 am.MartinComments Off
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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