Archive for the ‘Tech’ Category

jQuery alternate table rows

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

http://colorcharge.com/2007/12/13/jquery-alternate-table-rows/

More resources

Friday, July 18th, 2008

Agencies

Development Seed

jQuery / Thickbox
http://jquery.com/demo/thickbox/

CSS Layout

Blueprint
http://kematzy.com/blueprint-generator/
http://www.digitart.net/blueprintcss/bluebrintcss.pdf
http://code.google.com/p/blueprintcss/wiki/Tutorial
http://code.google.com/p/blueprintcss/wiki/Tools

Facebook
http://developers.facebook.com/step_by_step.php

Drupal

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

On The hunt for Drupal modules for an upcoming project.

Structure

jQuery UI Tabs
http://drupal.org/project/tabs
http://drupal.org/project/cck_fieldgroup_tabs


Media

Embedded Media Field
http://drupal.org/project/emfield

Drupal Update

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

AIC go Drupal
http://www.artic.edu/aic/

“…Enable users to create and manage their own ‘groups’. Each group can have subscribers, and maintains a group home page where subscribers communicate amongst themselves. They do so by posting the usual node types: blog, story, page, etc. A block is shown on the group home page which facilitates these posts. The block also provides summary information about the group…”
Views 2, CCK 2, and Organic Groups Release Candidates now available for Drupal 6!

Ruby on Rails - Resources

Monday, July 7th, 2008

Practical Rails Social Networking Sites
http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Rails-Social-Networking-Experts/dp/1590598415

RailsSpace: Building a Social Networking Website with Ruby on Rails
http://railsspace.com/

Building a Social Network Site in Rails By Jim Neath
http://jimneath.org/2008/04/25/building-a-social-network-site-in-rails/

Google Maps Project - Resources

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

These resources could be closer links to what i need to do:

This example shows how to geocode an array of addresses in such a way that avoids going over the max QPS and getting a 620 error.
http://gmaps-samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/geocoder/delayed.html

With some help from this resource for parsing xml and overlay html.

So combining the above examples allows me to geocode an array of address from an xml output without hitting the 620 error, and also adding some other functionality like overlayhtml and customer markers which is all I need for my project.

Now, what I need to export the xml from a customer web app form.

Here comes the tests…

GoogleMaps Project - Successful sites

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

Found these from http://maps.google.com/help/maps/casestudies/

Trulia - great site for realestate
Kayak

I’ve found some examples here
and in regards to xml feeds here
Here’s an example someone did at these forums using multiple address which “…The geocode component adds a Geolocate form to the Property Details Form that scrapes the address and geocodes it returning the lat & lon or allows the user to position a marker on a google map to return the lat lon and an address for the property….”

http://econym.googlepages.com/geomulti.htm

Found a thread here where “…Alternatively and probably
better, you could use a server-side application to loop through the
file, geocode each address, and then store it back in your XML file so
that you can use AJAX to just call the XML, parse out the lat/lng
values, and place the marker….” : Contact

GoogleMaps Project

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

Here’s my first go with a GoogleMaps project. What i’m trying to do is find a way to create lat/long coords from an xml list of address’. Google provides a geocoder that only parses address’ every 2 seconds (max QPS and getting a 620 error) , so you can run into problems trying to parse through a list of 100s of xml address’.

First some resources:

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/examples/geoxml-rss.html

With the AJAX Feed API, you can download any public Atom or RSS feed using only JavaScript, so you can easily mash up feeds with your content and other APIs like the Google Maps API.

http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxfeeds/

here is the flickr api link…
http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/groups_pool.gne?id=322338@N20&format=rss_200&georss=1

Googlemaps for Flash API
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/flash/intro.html
http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-samples-flash/
http://www.insideria.com/2008/05/google-releases-as3-maps-api.html

One of the demos
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/flash/demogallery.html

yahoo map API - Yahoo maps have built in geocode functionality which converts your address to long/lat coords where as Google doesn’t.
http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/

Other info
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/08/10/google-maps.html

Outting putting different ways to XML
http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=65622&topic=11364

Perl geocoder
http://search.cpan.org/~sderle/Geo-Coder-US/US.pm

Geocoder:US
http://geocoder.us/

To use geocoder - here’s the license
http://geocoder.us/user/signup

Geocoder parsing
http://geocoder.us/help/#parsing

Mapping hacks
http://mappinghacks.com/projects/gmaps/

More resources
http://econym.googlepages.com/index.htm

CSS/HTML Resources

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

Found some great web resources thanks to Lawrence Hsu

http://code.google.com/p/blueprintcss/
http://sixrevisions.com
CSS Framework shortlist
http://warpspire.com

Google Friend Connect - hmmm not sure about this…

Some great resources on Web 2.0

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

Check out this book by O’rielly coming out called Web 2.0 Patterns: What entrepreneurs and information architects need to know. The resources below are the authors that put it together.

http://technoracle.blogspot.com/ - Check out Duane’s World TV show he’s putting out - great stuff.
http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/
http://web2.wsj2.com/