Google Sightseeing is an index of interesting sites (sights?) around the world, as seen by the satellites that Google Maps uses. For example, places like The Grand Canyon, Niagra Falls, or the St. . [...]
SpamForceField is my newest anti-spam plugin for WordPress. This one does a couple of interesting things:
- All connections via pinappleproxy are denied.
- Every connection’s
Referer is checked against your blacklist keys. If a match is found, the connection is denied.
- If a comment is flagged as ’spam’ due to the normal spam checks, the client receives a
403 Forbidden HTTP status. This also occurs for connections denied in the other two checks above.
- When connections are denied, the client receives a message explaining what has occurred. [...]
By Dougal
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Posted in Blogs, Plugins, Security, Servers, Software, Spam, Tech, WordPress
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Also tagged PHP, plugin, Plugins, Programming, SEO, Spam, Web, WordPress
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If you’re a web developer, then hopefully you’ve already heard of Ruby on Rails and Ajax. If not, you’re behind the times, and you have some reading to do. New in Rails is built-in Ajax support.
I haven’t had time yet to play with Rails yet, but I’m itching to do so. Rails is a web application framework written in Ruby, an odd, interesting programming language (probably only ‘odd’ to me because I haven’t used it yet). [...]
February 10, 2005 – 2:50 pm
I still haven’t had time to dig into Google Maps enough to make my dynamic GPS coordinate thingy. . [...]
February 9, 2005 – 4:06 pm
Joel Webber has an excellent dissection of how Google Maps works under the hood in his Mapping Google article. Welcome to my blogroll.
Highlights:
- Communication with the backend server is done with a hidden <iframe> and some javascript trickery (not with XMLHttpRequest, as Gmail uses).
- Data arrives from the server in XML and is transformed into HTML by client-side XSLT. [...]
By Dougal
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Posted in Geolocation, Maps, Search, Software, Tech
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Also tagged Geography, Java, JavaScript, Location, SEO, Web, XML, XSLT
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February 8, 2005 – 3:15 pm
This isn’t exactly hot off the presses, but Google has launched Google Maps, which seems pretty nifty, so far. There are a few things I can think of that could use improvement, but it is just a beta, after all.
Improvements I’d like to see:
- When listing several locations, it would be nice if you could snap to just one particular one, and elminate the others.
- When doing a “local search”, it will change your zoom level, even when you are searching “the map area below”. [...]
