18 December 2005
JSON and RSS - John Resig
<a href="http://gvisit.com/">GVisit</a> offers JSON feeds of recent visitor locations. It's a lot of fun to play with mashing that up with the Google Maps API. (Or other mapping services, of course, if so inclined.) <a href="http://ecmanaut.blogspot.com/2
17 December 2005
A cyber fairy tale
Yay! *cheers* Let the baby carriages come crashing down the streets! ;-)
16 December 2005
Just Subjects » Blog Archive » Google Maps Hacking is Fun
Nice! Under the license terms of the gmap-wms code, am I right in presuming the "label in map" referrs to your "JustB ;)" signature? I'm considering using your Open Streetmap mashup, and would prefer to attribute that project as the map data source, if po
A map mashup feasibility study
Do you happen to have any pointers to RSS (or better still, JSON or JSONP) feeds of geocaches near a coordinate, or perhaps within a bounding box given by two lat/long pairs? That would make it approachable as a quick hack, for the sheer fun of it.<br><br
15 December 2005
Kommissarie F. Curiosa: Feminine curiosity can be deadly: Lästips: Svenssonskolan
Regarding 2, we find an even worse extreme in the nature starved Germans. :-) Ecotopianism does come naturally to many of us, though; no argument there.
14 December 2005
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
This was an interesting take on a tip jar. :-) It will be interesting to see where it takes you.
Developer Discussion: Microcontent permalinks by default
Much of the content on the web, especially in forums and the like, are adressable by URL with even better than page precision -- posts typically carry permalinks, so people can link to a specific message in a thread or comment on a post, and so on. This m
Developer Discussion: Preview post
When posting on the Ning Developer Discussion Board...<br><br>...Hmm, that is one lengthy name, and you seem to have forgotten to add it in the alt="" attribute of the header image too (for cut and paste convenience for lazy typists like myself and improv
13 December 2005
Browservulsel: Blogger edit comments user script
This script is set up to inject on (among others) http://blogger.com/posts-search.g -- which is a page I am not familiar with, I believe. Where do I find it?<br><br>I am presently doing a Greasemonkey 0.6.4 rehaul of this script and thought I ought to che
Blogger publish ping and categorizer tool
(That's weird; I was dead sure I had already commented on this?!) Anyway, this is something I can probably fix, with a bit of help from you. If you could save a version of your <b>Your blog published successfully</b> page, script turned <i>off</i> (or, b
ecmanaut: Permalinks and their applications
Time zones at play; the perception of what date it is is different in UTC-6 hours time zone where the server that runs your PHP code is located to where you and I are where our point of time reference is presently UTC+1 hours.<br><br>This is also why the
Kooky Knits
Those ear rings were <i>amazingly</i> cute. :-) And I am the kind of person who would very rarely notice something like that too. *smiles* Anyway, I did find the (hopefully only) <a href="http://ecmanaut.blogspot.com/2005/11/clustrmaps-inkblotch-visitor.h
12 December 2005
Post the whole feed, why don't you? - Freshblog
This is a social, not a technical problem. What Rubel has done (and should do) is adding the license text, "This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License", and visitors and syndicators should respect those terms. Try
Inline Comments Hack - Freshblog
Rather clever idea, using the comment URL field to add photos to common posters. I think I might eventually adopt something similar myself; the Blogger profile hack with iframes I use at the moment is kind of ugly.
Basang Panaginip: Redesign
Interesting take on page formatting in general and comment list in particular. You wouldn't happen to keep an archive or side blog on design or tech topics?
Mindsack » Blog Archive » Dynodes: Cross-Domain Scripting using Dynamic Node Creation
<i>A co-worker challenged me to build a user-initiated script that loaded, ran, and deleted itself multiple times without using onReadyStateChange.</i> Ah, that explains things. :-) <i>Ecmanaut rocks, by the way. Keep up the good work! </i> Thank
Brief moments
I recognize that subway setting and feeling. I was on the verge of patting a girl of the same mood the last moment before stepping off the train, on a recent visit to the city, but finally decided not to, as I might just as easily be a scary rather than w
HedgerWow's Blog - Simulating text-overflow on Firefox with unobtrusive Javascript.
Wow; good work! Could you elaborate a bit on the involvement of mouse events in this solution; I find it somewhat puzzling and quizzical.
HedgerWow's Blog - Initialization in Javascript
The onload handler handles some things that the crude case of the other two do not, perhaps most importantly guaranteeing that the entire document has been loaded and parsed (so, for instance, entities such as document.body is available in most browsers)
Remote JSON - JSONP
Excellent suggestion. I recently discussed a similar, slightly less generic solution for <a href="http://ecmanaut.blogspot.com/2005/12/designing-useful-json-feeds.html">generating usable JSON feeds</a> which is somewhat easier to use for novice programmer
11 December 2005
Comment Notification Added
Nice hack. I'd suggest using an onclick handler and keeping the href attribute for browsers with javascript turned off, though.
Blogger Del.icio.us categorizer script
As it happens (and you also seem to have noticed), I later wrote up a separate article on <a href="http://ecmanaut.blogspot.com/2005/12/styling-your-blog-post-tags-list-with.html" rel="nofollow">styling the tags list with CSS</a>.
Styling your blog post tags list with CSS
We had better explicitly specify a suitable left padding too, which is what <i>actually</i> reserves the room for the background there. Thanks for the heads up; my own template already had that bit built-in.
10 December 2005
Four Visitor Mapping Services Compared
I share your positive experiences with ClustrMaps and their customer service. Upon contacting them about a feature I wanted, they were interested but busy, and recommended a peek at GVisit. Upon suggesting the same feature there, I was invited to supply t
08 December 2005
Designing useful JSON feeds
Whew, good to hear. :-)<br><br><i>I wasn't sure if you were still checking comments on that one. sorry about that.</i><br><br>Fortunately the blog owner gets mail annotation of posts, so we can track what happens everywhere. In a while, Stephen's current
