Tag Archives: Java

Google Maps Lat/Long Bookmarklet

2/10/2005 – 2:50 pm

I still haven’t had time to dig into Google Maps enough to make my dynamic GPS coordinate thingy. . [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Geolocation, Maps, Search, Tech | Also tagged , , , , | Comments (14)

Google Maps Dissected

2/9/2005 – 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 | Posted in Geolocation, Maps, Search, Software, Tech | Also tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (2)

Mac Mini

1/11/2005 – 10:41 pm

Rumors about a “headless iMac” have been out for a while, but now the Mac Mini is official. This new platform comes with a G4 processor at either 1.25GHz or 1.42GHz, either 40GB or 80GB of drive space, 1 FireWire, 2 USB, DVI/VGA video, modem, 10/100Base-T ethernet, can have anywhere from 256MG to 1GB of RAM, optional 802.11b/g and Bluetooth, and OS X 10.3 with the usual slew of cool Apple apps. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Hardware, Tech | Comments (0)

Petals Around the Rose

9/22/2004 – 7:55 am

I learned about this little puzzle thing called Petals Around the Rose yesterday (via BoingBoing). It’s sort of a dice game where you have to figure out how to solve the puzzle as you go, and once you know how, you can’t tell anybody else. [...]

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HTMLoverlays

9/1/2004 – 11:10 am

Via Photomatt, I found a link to Embittered generals, which in turn led me to HTMLoverlays:

[...] The good news here is that you can do that for all your pages in your web site. [...]

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GAO Uses PHP

4/16/2004 – 12:33 pm

Just ran across some good press for PHP and MySQL. The GAO needed a way to upgrade a lot of their surveys and move them on the web. [...]

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Back to Basics

3/8/2004 – 4:46 pm

Over on Simon’s site, I ran across a link to a 2001 article where Joel Spolsky takes us Back to Basics in an essay about how high-level programming languages can lead us down the path to poor performance.

Today I want to think about CPUs. [...]

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Social Networking

1/8/2004 – 3:44 pm

In 1967, Stanley Milgram proposed the “small world theory”, which proposed that every person on earth is connected to every other person by a chain of just six other people. In other words, you know somebody, who knows somebody, etc., You might have heard of a humorous application of this called the Kevin Bacon Game. [...]

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Future Hack

4/21/2003 – 7:11 am

One of the great things about the Internet is that sometimes you find the answers to problems before you even start searching. . [...]

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Cleaning up HTML

2/27/2003 – 9:27 am

Quite some time ago, I coded up a PHP function that attempts to filter out potential nastiness in comments posted to MyPHPBlog sites (like this one). It’s mainly to keep people from injecting javascript into comments which could trigger Cross-Site Scripting problems. [...]

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