OmegaSoft Development Blog

Distance calculator

31 October 2007 - 09:36 AM

Just a little experiment in our spare time.

This application will calculate the distance between any two UK postcodes.

The post codes need to be in full (WV14 EED).

Click here to test.

It connects to a database of postcodes which also hold the latitude and longitude of any given postcode. Using a function featured on the Sandbox, it will then work out the distance in miles between the two points.

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Playing with GIS

16 September 2007 - 10:46 AM

GIS, Geographic Information Systems is a - still - young technology within computer science, which is currently booming thanks to the likes of Google Earth and MSN Virtual Earth.

Google have released API documentation for using their maps service on other websites/services.

Take a look at our Traveller application here. We're experimenting with their API's.

Traveller is a development-only application, where we're putting Google Maps to use by developing a 'sightseer' service.

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PHP class documentation

10 June 2007 - 08:39 AM

We're developing an automatic class documentor for PHP objects.

Java programmers will be familiar with JavaDoc, which allows programmers to submit their source code online and have a listing of all their classes, properties and methods, as well as their formal parameters and return values.

We're going to develop the PHP equivalent.

See the project develop by clicking here.

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Password research

04 October 2006 - 03:16 PM

We've developed a little tool, that can help you choose a strong password.

It uses a variety of different clauses, to analyse the password you give it, and from those clauses, it assigns it points, depending on whether is satisfies the criteria. Likewise, if your password is beyond poor, than it deducts points.

Check your password here.

No information is stored by OmegaSoft, and we do not have access to any passwords you enter.

A poor password is defined as something that is accessible from a dictionary and consists of very few characters. (for example, your dogs name: bart)

A strong password is defined as a term that may not be found in a dictionary, which contains a mix of numbers, symbols (IE: colons, asterix's etc) and characters in a random order. (for example: hdj8@hd:h7jsdnj)

This tool utilises the PathSearch index lexicon to identify common words in your passwords.

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Development Tools

16 June 2006 - 09:45 AM

We've released a few tools on our Research website.

We often use these tools when developing our services, so we thought it might be a nice idea to offer them all to you too!

Tools include XML validation, unixtime and MD5 hash conversion. Click here for the tools.

Happy developing!

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