If you are looking for a simple way to display lines like a roundtrip on a map, Google’s Static Maps API might be for you. Documentation and examples: http://code.google.com/intl/en-US/apis/maps/documentation/staticmaps/ Limits: – There is a query limit of 1000 unique (different) image requests per viewer per day. – URLs are restricted to 2048 characters. Here are [...]
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November 2, 2010 by marco · Comments Off
Filed under: Links, Read-Write-Web, Snippets, Tools
Social Tagging: api • Tools
Filed under: Links, Read-Write-Web, Snippets, Tools
Social Tagging: api • Tools
I have recently been playing with the new MODx (‘Revolution’) and I must say, I love the concept and it’s flexibility. Just to make things easier for folks starting out with MODx or who migrate from MODx Evolution here are some recommended links. General: Download MODx Revolution: As of 06.04.2010 there is MODx Revolution 2.0.0-rc-1 available. MODx [...]
Since one of my coolest (private) projects www.lsis.com somewhat lacks the expected amount of traffic, I would like to emphasize the core feature in this blobpost – just to make you aware of it or encourage you to tell your friends or have ideas to apply the concept to other areas. In short LSIS – [...]
January 22, 2009 by marco · Comments Off
Filed under: Links, Read-Write-Web
Social Tagging: helpers • sites
Filed under: Links, Read-Write-Web
Social Tagging: helpers • sites
I just found this handy little tool: You need to do the following: have your OPML ready (e.g. export it from GoogleReader), upload it to SuggestRss and see other feeds that might interest you. Happy feed digestion!
August 12, 2008 by marco · Comments Off
Filed under: Links, Software development
Social Tagging: agile • development • team
Filed under: Links, Software development
Social Tagging: agile • development • team
As projects and teams I am working on get more interwoven and organizational issues and management processes are gaining more and more traction on the 3 project dimensions time, budget and quality, I was thinking about what I would do as a manager in charge to let steam off the many issues we were facing [...]
In search of an example how to implement a top-level exception handler in PHP I came across this nice site containing lots of well explained tutorials and articles: http://www.phpro.org
When you do a lot of concentrated work (if you are privileged to be in an environment where this is possible), it is good to do something completely different at times. I discovered that when I switch my mindset to someting else more relaxing like leafing through impesssing images, some of the previously unanswered questions [...]
Here is a nice idea to present yourself as freelancer: http://www.vermeersch.ca (click ‘Explore’)
Nice real-life code metric: “WTFs per minute”: Found on http://www.osnews.com/comics
Watching state-of-the-art things of different areas inspires me. The Coolhunter is a very nice collection with categorized images of design stuff: http://www.thecoolhunter.net
“Read quality code” is one of the things that good developers should take the time to do regularly. Especially if you have to solve a well-defined problem, code search engines are very handy to get inspiration: http://www.krugle.org http://www.google.com/codesearch http://labs.oreilly.com/code
When you start googeling for something the first step is to be able to formulate an efficient query. You can use Google Suggest to refine your queries and get inspired about terms to use for best results.
Good site for agile practices: http://www.infoq.com Become member and download this book on Scrum: http://www.infoq.com/minibooks/scrum-xp-from-the-trenches
I love reading things like this: Top ten things ten years of professional software development has taught me Summary: “Object orientation is much harder than you think” “The difficult part of software development is communication” “Learn to say no” “If everything is equally important, then nothing is important” “Don’t over-think a problem” “Dive really deep [...]
Here is another good page to get started with Solr: http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/1668 http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-php-apachesolr/index.html PHP for a client: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-341 [25.04.2008] I found another helpful tutorial: http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/1668
Sometimes when I have 5 minutes for myself without thinking about ongoing projects, todos or technologies, obvious things come to my mind. It happened as I took a look at my opened webbrowser (Firefox) and wondered why my homepage actually is www.google.com. Firefox has Google search built in anyway. So I changed it to: http://www.digg.com/search?section=all&s=software+development+web [...]
I came accross a nice blog with lots of cool links to layout related things. Start at http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/07/17/exploring-design-outstanding-start-pages/ and also visit links like ’50 Beautiful CSS-Based Web-Designs’ etc. in the category section. ——— To research for layouts, there is also a very good book series: The ‘Web Design Index’ comes out once a year. It [...]
Today I had some more major hardware failures… After it was clear that I would be fixing things all day long, I took a deep breath and fired up Peter Dunston’s Website to relax and listen to good music while I was cleaning up the mess. What happened: The switch connecting my dev-servers with my [...]
Example: You are looking for instructions to install Debian Etch on your box. Search for ‘debian etch setup’. Goto: www.howtoforge.org
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