Category Archives: Codetry

I’ve thrown together a little hack that gives current Dublin Bus route status information in JSON format. Endpoint: http://rossduggan.ie/stuff/bus/ Simply calling the endpoint will return a JSON object of all bus routes and their associated statuses. Append ?route=x to the endpoint and you’ll get just the results for the route specified (or what it thinks […]

If you need to extract information from a large number of images on disk (and you’re using a *nix system), you could do worse than using find with Imagemagick’s command line tools. If you’re unfamiliar with find, I’d recommend reading the beginners guide on Linux.ie. It has terse and initially daunting syntax, but is one […]

I found myself needing to write a URL-shortening system recently, nothing particularly fancy, just something that would result in URLs similar to those of tinyURL and bit.ly. PHP’s own base64 function is purely for encoding string data to make it “URL safe” and actually results in a longer string. PHP also has a base_convert function, […]