September 2019

On my second visit to An Evening Of Unnecessary Detail, Geoff Marshall (and Vicki!) were one of the guests on-stage. Geoff had made an app for Windows, called the ‘Station Initials Lookup Tool’ that he showed off as part of his set. I thought it would be a fun project to put much the same data online as a simple website. Once I had done that, I looked around for a similar list of codes - and remembered the IATA codes for airports - and so I created that site for lookups as well.

Originally, I wanted to try out Symfony v4 using Flex, and using Webpack for Javascript & CSS processing. Now, these are all-Javascript & Webpack sites on the frontend - though the IATA codes are fetched and processed to pre-create the Javascript lookup table with a simple PHP class, run by a Symfony command.

• Initials to 3-letter code stations lookup
  • for example: ‘PAD’ is the British Rail station code for ‘London Paddington’
• Initials to 3-letter IATA airports
  • ‘KBP’ is the IATA airport code for ‘Boryspil International Airport, Kyiv, Ukraine’
  • Source code for the site & airports-code processing

2001:

Lets keep it simple

I designed these flag options a long time ago, around the year 2001, following some discussion (and a competition) on the main moon society mailing list regarding a flag. Several were produced, but they were all very complicated. This was my idea.

• Thoughts for a Luna flag.