This is Part 3 of a week long series featuring code for the Google Maps API. When I was planning tonight’s post I was having all sorts of fun looking at optomizing the addOverlay function. This function, when used again and again with hundreds of points slows things down very quickly. The code, which is […]
Comment · Posted: August 15th, 2005
This is Part 2 of a week long series featuring code for the Google Maps API. Auto-Scaling Maps A smart feature, for those displaying markers on a Google Map, is to make sure that all points that you’re rendering are being displayed. There are a couple tactics that can be used to acheive this: 1) […]
Comment · Posted: August 13th, 2005
Starting today – and going until next week – I will be writing a post, everyday, detailing a chunk of Google Maps API-enhancing code that I’ve written. During the past couple weeks I’ve been working a number of contract jobs – all of which have centered around the usage of the Google Maps API, a […]
Comment · Posted: August 12th, 2005
After having posted my Super-Fast Delicious Bookmarklet yesterday, it became quite a hit on del.icio.us. As I watched the links come in I noticed one recurring trend: A lot of users were tagging their links with the cryptic ‘%s‘. I thought for a minute and realized that these users were adding the bookmarklet to their […]
Comment · Posted: August 8th, 2005
I’m looking for a Javascript/Design Guru to help get some applications off the ground. If you can look at Prototype (http://prototype.conio.net/) and say “That’s cool, but I can do better!”, or you can scoff at the designs on Stylegala (http://stylegala.com/) and CSS Vault (http://cssvault.com/) – then this job is for you! Knowledge of the following […]
Comment · Posted: August 8th, 2005
For the life of me I cannot figure out why any Mozilla-based browser will not return a Style element using innerHTML. Check out this test case that I whipped up. If you have any insight into this, please let me know. Google has been no help on this matter. Lazyweb PissedOffWeb hear my plea!
Comment · Posted: August 7th, 2005
Today I noticed that Chris Lott was looking for a super-fast way to post to del.icio.us after having posted a link to this bookmarklet on his del.icio.us link page. The bookmarklet provides the following functionality: The ability to type ‘d tag1 tag2 …’ on the location bar to tag a new URL. If you select […]
Comment · Posted: August 7th, 2005
(Originally from a comment that I made to this Makezine post) If you’re looking to read your mailing lists in your newsreader, I’d recommend looking no further then Gmail. Gmail has a hidden feature: Atom feeds for Labels! The technique is simple: Setup a filter to catch all email from a specific mailing list. Apply […]
Comment · Posted: August 6th, 2005
