http://wakeless.net Converting the "Random Minutes" Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:19:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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. http://wakeless.net/archive/2008/04/mr-dingleberry 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 ... http://wakeless.net/archive/2008/04/gdirections-25-element-limit 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 ... http://wakeless.net/archive/2008/04/the-dodgy-afl-website-part-1 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 ... http://wakeless.net/archive/2008/04/controlmodaldialog-a-lightweight-javascript-modal-dialog-library There has been a massive uproar regarding John Lilly's post about Apple's dubious update/install process of Safari (follow up regarding competition). I don't think it needs to be discussed, but John Gruber (Apple fanboy extraodinaire) has a great post regarding exactly why it is wrong. The hoo-haa has largely been ... http://wakeless.net/archive/2008/03/mozilla-sugardaddies-sustainability-and-targets Currently I'm working on an abstraction layer for the Google Maps API, this is purely written in Javascript, allowing any language to produce JSON objects and pass them quite seemlessly onto a Google Map. Originally this was planned to be able to be used across maps APIs (Virtual Earth, Yahoo ... http://wakeless.net/archive/2008/03/apis-are-hard-but-fun Something that amazes me in whatever I do, is how ecosystems form. So I thought that I would do a little bit of research as to what defines an ecosystem and learn a little bit more about them. The ever faithful Wikipedia defines it as: An ecosystem is a ... http://wakeless.net/archive/2008/03/ecosystems I spend a lot of time riding my bike, it having been my primary mode of transport over the last few years and I have noticed a common but odd form of communication. This signal is of course the Upwards Nod. It is always at 5:30 in the morning when ... http://wakeless.net/archive/2008/03/the-upwards-nod-and-the-speechless-hello People who happen to spend more than a few passing minutes with me and a certain group of friends of mine (namely Jameses, Rod, Carl and Dingo) are amazed at the amount of randomness the conversations produce. While I can't speak for other people, I have a suspicion our conversations ... http://wakeless.net/archive/2008/03/converting-the-random-minutes Sometimes it amazes me what information Wikipedia holds: Red Rover. http://wakeless.net/archive/2008/02/link-to-red-rover-article