Monday, August 13, 2007
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Developer Knowledge Base - Using PHP and MySQL to create KML (via Using PHP/MySQL with Google Maps): "Note: This tutorial uses location data that already has latitude and longitude information needed to plot corresponding markers. If you're trying to use your own data that doesn't yet have that information, use a batch geocoding service to convert the addresses into latitudes/longitudes. Some sites make the mistake of geocoding addresses each time a page loads, but doing so results in slower page loads and unnecessary repeat geocodes. It's always better to hard-code the latitude/longitude information when possible. This link contains a good list of geocoders:" Resources: (Non-Google) Geocoders & Reverse Geocoders - Google Maps API | Google Groups: "The Google geocoder is not optimal for all/many situations, particularly those requiring massive amounts of geocoding for a preset dataset. There are many alternative APIs and services out there, depending on the region desired."
High Earth Orbit » Blog Archive » A Proposal - GeoRSS & KML: "There has recently been a lot of discussion around KML becoming part of the OGC and the future of GeoRSS and KML. Will GeoRSS use KML payloads, or vice versa? Will one just subsume the other? After speaking with a bunch of people at Where, and also thinking about various announcements and talks given by Google-ites, Geo-ers, and standards makers, I’m proposing the following practice for using GeoRSS and KML together along with other formats."
Brain Off » MGeoRSS: Google Maps API Extension for GeoRSS & MGeoRSS: A GeoRSS Google Maps API Extention: "A proxy is required to work around browser security and load remote GeoRSS files. A simple proxy in perl or php is available. Rename to proxy.pl/proxy.php and place in the same directory as your GMap application. The javascript is mgeorss.js"
Friday, August 10, 2007
Google Mapplets Documentation: "Rather than adding points using Javascript, we recommend that you instead store you data in the KML or GeoRSS data formats. The API has a class called
GGeoXml that will represent an entire KML/GeoRSS layer." & Google Maps API Introduction (via Miles to go ...: Google Developer Day Report)
Saturday, August 04, 2007
Friday, August 03, 2007
Form store | drupal.org: "Form store is a useless module by itself. It maintains and provides other modules with a list of forms. Captcha 5.x-2.x, but also MyCaptcha 5.x-1.x rely on it to add captcha points to arbitrary forms."
Janode | drupal.org: "You can use Janode to create your own web directory. Janode also periodically checks each http:// link for 404 errors."
Thursday, August 02, 2007
Creating a Custom Home Page in Drupal Using Views | A Padded Cell
One of the most popular questions people new to Drupal ask is: ‘How do I change the home page?’ By default the index page of a Drupal site has a bloggy feel, the latest items shown in date order, but it doesn't have to look like that! That is the aim of this article, to show two ways—because there is always more than one way to do something in Drupal—to customize a Drupal home page.
Spring instance management part II - hotswapping (!) and mixins for pooling at Alef Arendsen
Suppose we actually have two backends, one that takes all the requests and the other one that acts as a fallback in case the first one somehow falls over...
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
Jasmina - Richmond Hill Real Estate Agent, helps York Region & Toronto Area residents search local Public Libraries directly form their web browsers - without having to visit the Library web sites first! Find your favourite books with a few mouse clicks using Jasmina's Search Box extensions for both:
The Web of the Future is Here | Gear Digest: "If you think My Space, YouTube and Facebook are the future of what has come to be called 'Web 2.0', think again. There's a lot more to come and Mark Sigal, CEO of vSocial.com is the man to talk about it. This article is for everyone, end users, potential content producers and people responsible for websites of all kinds. It includes some very useful references."
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Stephen's Lighthouse blog - Stephen Abram, MLS, is immediate past-President of the Canadian Library Association and Vice President Innovation for SirsiDynix. He is the president-elect of SLA internationally. He has been VP of Corporate Development for Micromedia ProQuest and Publisher Electronic Information for Thomson. He ran libraries for Suncor, Coopers & Lybrand, Smith Lyons Torrance Stevenson and Mayer and Hay Group. Stephen has been listed by Library Journal as one of their first "Mover and Shakers", the key people influencing the future of libraries and librarianship. He has been awarded SLA's John Cotton Dana Award as well as being a Fellow of the SLA. He was Canadian Special Librarian of the Year and Alumni of the Year for the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Information Studies. He was President 2002 of the Ontario Library Association as well as having sat on the SLA Board of Directors as Director and Secretary. He gives over 100 international keynote talks annually to library and information industry conferences and writes articles and columns for Information Outlook, Feliciter, Access, Multimedia & Internet @ Schools, and Library Journal.
LibraryBytes: "In browsing through my feeds tonight, I came across Kathryn’s post 20 reasons why learning emerging techologies is part of every librarian’s job. Kathyrn offers up a great list of reasons for library professionals to keep on top of emerging trends."
Testing Will Challenge Your Conventions: "11. “Clever” is dead. Clever is hard to refactor. Clever is hard to isolate, hard to internalize, hard to phrase in tests. One point of “obvious” is worth two hundred points of “clever”." (via Spring-Loaded: "Tests running slow? It's a feature!")
Monday, July 30, 2007
echodump.module for Drupal 4.7, 5 | EchoDitto Labs: "Much of it hasn't been ported to Drupal 5 — and most of it shouldn't be. Webform makes echoinvite unncessary; askismet and the spam module encompass the capabilities of blacklist."
Building forms with cck, actions and workflow | Digett: "Previously we have been big fans of webform.module, but this time we decided to go another route. After seeing some posts around drupal.org about using a combination of cck, actions and workflow to accomplish some of this same functionality, I decided to give it a shot."
Embedding drupal forms into pages | drupal.org: "the problem seems to be, that you can not print strings in the $form_id.'_submit' function. Below is a code sample to embed a form into a drupal page node:"
Sunday, July 29, 2007
2007 Online Northwest About Page: "Online Northwest is a conference focusing on the use of technology within libraries. It was created by the Oregon University System Library Council to help librarians around Oregon learn how to use early online searching tools. As information technology and librarians have increased in sophistication over the years, so has the conference." & drupalib: drupal in libraries | A place for library drupallers to hang out & libSite.org | A Recommendation Service for Library-related Websites
Saturday, July 28, 2007
How to configure Synergy in six steps - program that lets you share a virtual desktop between two different computers
Webmaster console adds message center & Webmaster console features?: "What do you want to see the Webmaster Central team do next?"
Webmaster Help Center - Webmaster Guidelines: "Avoid tricks intended to improve search engine rankings. A good rule of thumb is whether you'd feel comfortable explaining what you've done to a website that competes with you. Another useful test is to ask, 'Does this help my users? Would I do this if search engines didn't exist?'"
SEO Tips for Title Tags | Google Success SEO SEM Tips: "1) Title lengths should be limited to 65 characters including the spaces; 2) Use your keyword phrases in the title tag, taking care that the title looks natural and does not appear keyword stuffed..."
Friday, July 27, 2007
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
MySite | drupal.org: "Users group is http://groups.drupal.org/mysite and includes a development roadmap" - Supports Google Gadgets!
Drupal URLs | disobey.com: "View the most recent and popular URLs mentioned in the Drupal IRC channels"
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Facebook Developers | Get Started & Neighborhoods Application for Facebook & AppFactory: "Salil Deshpande, friend and Bay Partner, has launched a new seed program specifically for Facebook applications. Facebook inverting itself to become a platform is going to go down as an ingenious move and it has changed the entire landscape. This is just the beginning. You can bet that the API will get better and better."
example_element.module | Drupal API: "This is an example demonstrating how a module can define custom form elements."
Monday, July 23, 2007
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Form Block | drupal.org: "Enables the presentation of node creation forms in blocks. This is particularly useful for including forms on panels."
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Expanding Your Paid Search Campaigns: Unofficial Google Analytics Blog: "If you use Google Analytics (or any web analytics program), make sure you tag these new campaigns. If you are not using Google Analytics, you certainly should! This will allow you to monitor profitability of these new campaigns within Google Analytics. Although time consuming, this is a must! For an in-depth look at link tagging read our blog article "Google Analytics Link Tagging 101" by Michael Harrison."
Monday, July 16, 2007
Google Analytics Blog: Using Google Analytics with Website Optimizer: "Website Optimizer reports on only one metric -- conversions on links. What if you'd like to know how different versions of the same web page affect other metrics, such as Exit Rate, Average Time on Page, Navigational Analysis or New vs. Returning visitors. Now there's a way - you can integrate Website Optimizer with Google Analytics by making a few modifications to the javascript and to the tracking on the page. Shawn Purtell of ROI Revolution has documented a way to integrate the two that allows some very powerful analysis and action to be taken."
Does Geocoding work for nodes using Gmap? | groups.drupal.org: "I started a project for a Geocode module, but I don't know where to put the resulting lat/long information. I was really hoping there would be more activity with the Geo module. The idea of API/schema that can be used by both basic MySQL environments as well as leverage the more advanced features of spatial databases like MySQL with spatial extensions or PostgreSQL with PostGIS is REALLY exciting... Location module does do geocoding when you save the node. There's a lot of settings to fiddle with so maybe you missed one."
Incremental backup of Drupal using rsync to iBackup.com | 2BITS.com - Drupal Development, Customization and Consulting: " Rsync is also used by ibackup.com is a commerical service for online backup and online storage." [IBackup for Linux] & How do you backup your webserver? | Lullabot
Bait People to Internal Portals With Targeted Newsletters | Development Seed Blog: "There’s one website I read nearly every day, and that's MIT Technology Review."
XFire and Celtix Merge - Codehaus XFire & Home - Codehaus XFire - Confluence - XFire is now CXF: Apache CXF - Index
Spring Live ~ Weblog: "At the final day of The Spring Experience, I learned how to build web applications using Hijax (progressive enhancement with Ajax) and ROO (Real Oriented Objects). Both were excellent presentations - you can read my summaries by clicking on the links below: * Building Modern Web Applications with Mike Stenhouse * Hop into Real Object Oriented (ROO) with Ben Alex"
Friday, July 13, 2007
Monday, July 09, 2007
Friday, July 06, 2007
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
June 2007 Van Drupalers Meeting: Amazon Web Services | Group 42: "Alex's presentation slides, available at http://www.alexharford.com/2007/06/28/drupal-presentation/, are quite good."
Monday, July 02, 2007
FME and MySQL Spatial Databases - Fmepedia: "interesting experiences on using FME to populate a MySQL spatial database"
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