A side project that I’m currently working on, involving maps, had a bit of data that I was unfamiliar with. I’ll start by saying that I’m very familiar with Latitude/Longitude – it’s something that everyone learns in school. However, the data that I was provided with was of an entirely different sort and labeled as […]
Comment · Posted: July 15th, 2005
This summer I’m taking a column writing class at an excellent literary center, just down the street, called Writers and Books. If you’re driving down University Ave, you can’t miss it – they have a giant pencil sitting out front. The premise of this class is to identify a topic and title for your column, […]
Comment · Posted: July 14th, 2005
I read an article written by “Ivan Tribble” (a pseudonym) over at the Chronicle. Ivan was part of a committee, at a small college, looking to hire a new professor. It just so happened that a couple of the people vying for the position also had web logs. Ivan’s argument is that the majority of […]
Comment · Posted: July 13th, 2005
In the new release of Google Earth, there’s an exciting feature that lets you dynamically load geographical data in from other sources. They even have an markup language for it called KML. People have already started putting Flickr photos ontop of the maps. On a similar note, if you have a Geotagged RSS feed that […]
Comment · Posted: July 12th, 2005
I finally had the chance to get to Multi-User editing yesterday, and it’s nearly completed. It’s looking very sharp. You can watch people make changes to the same shrub as you, in real-time – the result is rather exciting.
I’m in the process of setting up shrub themeing, and once I’m completed with that, creating some […]
Comment · Posted: July 12th, 2005
Recently I’ve become very interested in applications which make the most of the text messaging feature on my mobile phone. My wishes tend to go the direction of geo-location applications, but due to the virtually non-existant GPS support available, currently, in phones, this is not going to happen soon. However, one application that seems to […]
Comment · Posted: July 11th, 2005
I’ve just finished up an excellent hack which brings the power of address translation (converting a US Postal Address into a Latitude/Longitude) to the Google Maps API – something that wasn’t provided in the default distribution. There’s a ton of information available, including demos, screenshots, and code on the project page: Google Address Translation.
Comment · Posted: July 10th, 2005
A piece of information that I’ve been analyzing, in my spare time, is the number of readers on this web log. How this is done can be very tricky, as there are a number of factors (people can click your RSS feed and ‘view’ it in their browser, but it doesn’t mean that they’re reading […]
Comment · Posted: July 10th, 2005
