I was reading Ryan’s post about Google Maps and could not resist hacking together a relatively simpleminded track simplifying script.
It reads a GPX file and prints out the JavaScript necessary to plot the track using the Google Maps API.
Its use of the Google Maps API is pretty simpleminded (it just centers on the begin point [...]
What will radio programs do to make it clear that a voice is someone calling into the radio program rather than someone in the studio when phones sound good?
My sweep for libraries finally found Python 2.4 versions for everything I cared about, so I went ahead and upgraded to Python 2.4 on my Windows machine.
As much for my own reference as anyone else’s, the list of Python libraries I installed into my fresh Python 2.4 installation on my Windows XP machine:
pysqlite 2.1.0
wxPython 2.6.2.1 [...]
I’ve been working on the bootstrap mechanism of service. One of the problems I’m addressing is the relative fragility of its configuration mechanism. Some services depend on other services (e.g. a “connection handler” service depends on both “authentication” and “database access” services). With the old configuration mechanism, [...]
I whimsically (after backing everything up) tried Dreamhost’s new(ish) One-Click upgrades. Since I installed both notes and whatcartoon.com using One-Click installs of WordPress, I decided to give One-Click upgrades a shot. I already upgraded this site (notes) by hand, but What Cartoon was woefully out of date.
It all worked very smoothly [...]
I wanted some rounded corners for a web site I’ve been fiddling with. After some digging around the numerous rounded-corners tutorials out there on the web, I concluded I wanted:
No extraneous markup — just a div with a class that indlcated “rounded corners”
No JavaScript — all of the solutions I saw that used [...]
Someone I know mentioned people on myspace and xenga were regularly inlining images from his server. It made me wonder if anyone was doing that to my images.
I did some log analysis for photos.xythian.com and whatcartoon.
A few people were or are inlining my images. I was surprised to see someone inlining a whatcartoon [...]
I was struck by an urge to resume working on my RSS fetcher this weekend. Or maybe by a bus. I’m minding my own business and suddenly it seems very important to finish building the fetcher. It’s still not complete but it’s a bit further along. I [...]