Ben Nolan

I just discovered the awe inspiring flagstaff cellars, which is a tucked away little beershop in an unassuming corner of Melbourne.

When you’re building an application for travellers, you come up against the problem of how do you get enough data in the system so that it’s useful for 455 cities with a population of more than one million people, 1054 with more than 500,000 and 2851 with more than 150,000 people.

The Haversine formula is a equation that can be used to calculate the straight line distance between two coordinates on a sphere. It is commonly used by geohackers to work out how far in kilometres it is between two latitude/latitude coordinates.

In redesigning my blog and publishing it on github pages, I wanted a simple way to show only the first paragraph of each post on the front page. The way I did it isn’t something I’m proud of - but it does show the power of css.

I’ve been working on an html5 app for Lonely Planet, and part of the task is to make the app work offline on the iPhone. Getting it to work isn’t too hard - you need to create a cache.manifest file and make sure it is served with the correct mime type.

I’ve been doing a lot of coffeescript lately and can recommend it wholeheartedly.

I just went on a big skate of melbourne CBD.

I’ve set this blog up on Github pages using Jekyll. My old posts may find their way here….