A little while back at the beginning of June we hosted the Sydney AR Dev Camp. Organised by Rob Manson and Alex Young, the AR Dev Camp was aimed at exposing local Sydney developers to some of the recent developments in augmented reality. A free event sponsored by Layar and the Powerhouse, it filled the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Developer tools'
Interview with Rob Manson on Layar, streetARt and the AR Dev Camp
August 5th, 2011 No Comments
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Fixing document download and link tracking with the Google Analytics asynchronous tracking code
July 14th, 2011 3 Comments
If you’ve been using the gatag.js from Good Web Practices in conjunction with your Google Analytics code for the past few years you may have noticed that it stopped working when you updated to the newer, better asynchronous Google Analytics tracking code. What was nice about the gatag.js code was that it was quick and [...]
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Behind the Powerhouse collection WordPress plugin
January 22nd, 2011 2 Comments
Yesterday we went live with the first version of the Powerhouse Museum collection WordPress plugin. Rather than clutter that launch blogpost up with the backstory and some its implications, here’s the why and how, and, what next. The germination of the WordPress plugin was the aftermath of the Amped Hack Day run by Web Directions [...]
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Powerhouse Museum collection WordPress plugin goes live!
January 21st, 2011 4 Comments
Today the first public beta of our WordPress collection plugin was released into the wild. With it and a free API key anyone can now embed customised collection objects in grids in their WordPress blog. Object grids can be placed in posts and pages, or even as a sidebar widget – and each grid can [...]
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Playing with Google’s reading age tool
December 13th, 2010 No Comments
Google just released a new ‘reading level filter‘ in the Advanced Search section of their search – the part that probably only librarians actually regularly use. I’ve run it on a few of our domains with interesting results. Here’s our main powerhousemuseum.com. After seeing that I went off and ran it over a slew of [...]
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Launch of the Powerhouse Museum Collection API v1 at Amped
October 18th, 2010 7 Comments
This weekend just gone we launched the Powerhouse Collection API v1. For the uninitiated the API provides programmatic access to the collection records for objects that are on the Powerhouse website. For the technically minded, Version 1 returns JSON, JSONP, YAML and XML through a RESTful interface – chosen mainly so that interested people can [...]
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Roll your own URL shorteners for your museum
March 26th, 2010 5 Comments
Last week I got a tweet from Te Ara asking about URL shorteners as their favoured one, tr.im, had stopped accepting URLs. So I’m happy to announce that we’ve implemented our own URL shortener – from.ph – for internal use only. Luke had been thinking about this for a couple of months and we’ve been [...]
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Multi-lingual machine translation from the footer
October 12th, 2009 6 Comments
There’s been a fair bit of chatter about machine translation of late and so when we noticed that the Museum of London team had rolled out the new Google Translate widget on their website we figured we’d give it a try and follow suit. So lo and behold, now on the Powerhouse Museum main site [...]
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Intgerating Twitter tweets into blog comments
April 12th, 2009 3 Comments
Backtype has just released the very first 0.1 version of a WordPress plugin that integrates tweets and retweets as well as comments on other blogs into the comment stream of your original WordPress posts. I’ve been trialling an install and you can see it in action on a post like this one. Notice that the [...]
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Powerhouse releases a Python HTML Sanitiser for developers to use (BSD license)
August 21st, 2008 2 Comments
As you’ve heard, we’ve been working on a whole lot of new projects. And with new projects comes new code. I can’t say a lot more about these projects right now, but we’ve been using Python and the Django framework to develop them. So here’s the first of the spinoff products that we’re putting out [...]
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