Street arriva, street censura
È arrivato oggi a Torino Google Street View e abbiamo già trovato le prime censure discutibili… posso capire la copertura dei volti e delle targhe delle auto ma anche le gambe delle ragazze in bicicletta, mi pare davvero eccessivo! :)
Renewable energy industrial cost (needed)
Even though I’ve asked around, I’m still not able to find an “official” list of the industrial costs needed to produce electricity from renewable sources that is more recent than the one listed on Wikipedia (which is taken from a document published in 2004 with data of 2001). Any help is much appreciated.
Almost White Noise
I’ve started collecting all my “two zero” feeds in a single atom that I imaginatively called almost white noise :) so if your feed reader needs a new source for its “garbage” section, now you know how to calm it down. :)
Geocoding behind a proxy
The official PHP/MySQL Google Maps Geocoding example uses simplexml_load_file that doesn’t handle a proxy so if your script is behind a proxy, you can’t use it. The problem can be overcome by using stream_context_create and file_get_contents as described in the following snippet: $request_url = $base_url . "&q=" . urlencode($address); $params = array ( ‘http’ => [...]
