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My first Yahoo Pipe: Brisbane Traffic Notices

This is my first Yahoo pipe I made for KIB216: Brisbane Traffic Notices. It takes data from http://131940.qld.gov.au/, runs it through a geolocation service and plots them on a map. It’s rather slow at the moment, probably all the geolocating it’s doing, and the geolocator sometimes gets it wrong.

This should be useful for anyone who drives, as they can easily see what roads to avoid, etc.

Blog is live!

My blog went live on the stroke of midnight, and I’ve just been tweaking the .htaccess file for faster page loads.

This is what I have in my .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]


# MOD_DEFLATE COMPRESSION
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE

# 1-WEEK EXPIRES HEADER
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault A0
ExpiresDefault A604800
Header append Cache-Control "public"

After that, my YSlow score is 87 (ignoring the E-tags rule), which is pretty good. I’ll probably end up moving this off Dreamhost and onto my Linode server and rice it up.