Archive for April, 2008

Mr Dingleberry and the Black Keys

April 30th, 2008

Just writing a quick shout out to Bruce Thurlow over at MrDingleberry.com and at The Black Keys Fan Lounge He’s just launching his sites, and if the first 2 videos are anything to go buy, it should be full of the kind of good random crap that I love.


GDirections 25 element limit

April 28th, 2008

There’s an undocumented feature in the Google Maps API when retrieve driving direction wherein any GDirections request with more than 25 elements returns an error with code G_GEO_BAD_REQUEST (400). This isn’t particularly helpful but I found the answer in the Google Maps forums somewhere. So the trick is to partition your array of waypoints into […]


The dodgy AFL website - part 1

April 14th, 2008

For a long time I have had problems with the AFL website, over the years it has progressively been getting worse and worse. First of all they did a web distribution deal with Bigpond a few years ago who then proceeded to put a completely non-functional 55px high bar on not only afl.com.au but also […]


Control.Modal.Dialog - a lightweight javascript modal dialog library

April 8th, 2008

Recently we realised that we were in need of a modal form/dialog. Sure there is a javascript “dialog” function however it is completely useless in IE7 and what’s more it’s not really ideal in other browsers. Most of our work is based on Prototype/Scriptaculous and we have used Control.Modal in other projects so I went […]