Archive for the ‘Airbana’ Category

Version 3 How-To & XMLRPC

June 22nd, 2008

With the core features of Version 3 complete the How-To section has been updated to show the new features and usability of Airbana.
The first draft of the XMLRPC help has also been published.
The API Help and examples is still being written as it is quite indepth and some features / function calls have changed [...]

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Airbana Version 3 Preview

June 16th, 2008

Version 3 of Airbana is drawing closer to release (On target for 1st July 2008!) but I thought a quick ‘preview’ of the new design might liven this blog up a bit.

As you can see I’m making much better use of the screen and the new design now squeezes into lower resolution browsers.
As part of [...]

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Attempted Defacement Attack

June 10th, 2008

Since the site went live several months ago it has been subjected to several ‘attacks’ most are the usual assortment of SQL injection worms etc but there have been several manual probes which have consisted of URL manipulation, POST injection etc.
Thankfully none of these have succeded as the code is pretty sturdy and validates all [...]

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Accessing the UKARA Database - An API

May 18th, 2008

Before we start let me make it clear that this article does not pertain to the player database!
For those of you involved in the Web and more specifically Web 2.0 the idea of an API and Mashups is almost natural and with the Web 2.0 influences in Airbana I got to thinking about the UKARA [...]

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Airsoft Shops in the UK

April 3rd, 2008

The only part of the Airbana map that any user can’t add to is the Retail section.
Currently I cannot think of a way to protect the Airsoft community from ‘retailers’ who are not UKARA registered and the last thing the community needs is to make it easier for unscrupulous people to push their £10 springers.
I [...]

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Version 2 Released

February 28th, 2008

Current Features:
Directions To Selected Site
General Contact Info available at click of mouse
View Site Features (Onsite shop etc)
UKASGB & UKARA Membership identification
Usual GoogleMaps feature of Mouse Zoom / Dragging
Lists Games Sites and Retailers
Direct Link to Sites ASCUK Forum section
Unharvestable Emails to keep your inboxes safe from spam
‘Plain’ List of all Sites in the Database
AJAX ‘Detailed View’ [...]

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