Well I guess it’s official … it’s almost precisely three years since I launched OverHere.co.za and celebrated it with the first blog post here. This feels like it calls for another entry into ye olde archive: a quick snapshot at least of what’s been achieved. I’m intrigued to see that my last blog post here…
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Today’s a special day for this website: it finally gains a user-friendly homepage that showcases all the functions I’ve built up (and re-built!) over the past five months. I’ll miss the big cover photograph of the compass, but I realise nobody comes here to look at photographs of compasses (no matter how much I liked…
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Giving people on-road directions are hard enough, but when it comes to off-road it’s almost impossible. Take the extremely popular Pretoria Boeremark market, for example, with dozens of stalls and hundreds of visitors. “Turn left at the second cheese stall, walk 200m and then take your first right by the organic mushrooms” won’t work for…
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In the last two months, there are two undeniable lessons this site has taught me: 1) There will always be a feature to refine or develop further 2) Making things simple for the end-user can be really complex to implement Back when I launched this website, I stayed focused by asking myself, “What is the…
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I first fell in love with the power of ‘short’ addresses when I visited London in 2009 and was exposed to their postcode system … where short postcodes don’t just lead you to a suburb, but to a doorway. Why couldn’t we have that in South Africa? Ten years later, why do we still not?…
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