This is just a little bit about how the project started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was roughly 2012, and I was sitting in the Vine Hotel, Stafford<\/a> one Friday lunchtime, and I’d just joined the CaskMarque App<\/a> thing. I was already aware of Foursquare\/Swarm<\/a>, and I thought it would be a nice idea just to have my own little Pub Logging thing, just to keep track of pubs I’d been in and liked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As I had my laptop with me, had a background in web development, and had nothing better to do all afternoon, I wrote a simple HTML\/PHP\/MySQL web page that I could run on my phone. I would take my location, work out the address, and save it to a database. Later, I would used the DB to create an KML file export to load into Google Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (Some of this code was adapted into a vehicle tracking system, which is still used in an updated form by one company today).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Time passed, Thorin sat down and sang about gold, I upgraded my phone, and eventually forgot about the thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Last year, 2024, my hosting provider was taken over, and I was “invited” to review my account. I found the old database (and code that didn’t really work anymore due to PHP being updated). <\/p>\n\n\n\n I looked at the old idea and thought “Why did I waste that? I can make something useful from it!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n And after a few days of work (spread over serveral weeks), we are where we are….<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is just a little bit about how the project started. It was roughly 2012, and I was sitting in the Vine Hotel, Stafford one Friday lunchtime, and I’d just joined the CaskMarque App thing. I was already aware of Foursquare\/Swarm, and I thought it would be a nice idea just to have my own … Continue reading Genesis<\/span>