Mobile Programming Pit Stop

Fixed the annoying stale front page bug on MobilePit.com

I’ve finally have the time to fix the most annoying bug on this blog. This bug manifest itself as the Wordpress “page cache” bug, where new posts were not shown on the front page of this blog, which would give the impression that this blog was not updated for quite some time to visitors.

The bug however does not affect the actual posts and web feeds, as the new posts can be accessed via their actual URL. The remedy of the problem (which i do) is to completely delete the current Wordpress installation (don’t forget to backup “plugins” and “themes” directory) and replace it with a fresh installation, which a new “wp-config.php” will be created to point to the old database.

Reload the webpage, and your blog will be free from the “stale” front page bug.

TinyGeo-coder : A cool free geocoding/reverse geocoding service

I was searching for a free and easy to use geocoding web service over the internet for my experiment involving Location Based Service (LBS). Then suddenly i came accross tinygeocoder, a web service which really suits my need.

tinygeocoder services that caught my eye :

• geocoding – you can feed it with name of place like “San Francisco, CA” and it will return result in latitude and longitude pair “(37.775196,-122.419204)”
• reverse geocoding – feed it with a coordinate, and the service will return you the name of the corresponding place.

Personally I like the “reverse geocoding” functionality more as it would be handy for my LBS project. Keep an eye for this blog as I’ll be posting JavaME JSR-179 (Location API) codes which utilizes tinygeocoder services.

p/s: If you find tinygeoder helpful, consider making donations to them.