RuPy 2007 or why Rails still amazes me

Last weekend I was speaking on RuPy conference. I had time to take part only on Sunday, so I missed first day, and what is probably key event of every conference, evening meeting in bar. Well, maybe next year. For RuPy I had to refresh my speaker skills (last my speak on conference was something …

MUD, AJAX and real world

Before I have left for Internet free zone (Easter!) I have found this site http://www.ajaxmud.com/. It is somehow realization of my idea from almost year ago. This MUD sucks ;-) even if subtitle says it does not, but hey! this early development stage. But I don’t think ajaxmud.com will move out of this stage, since …

Toggling GMarker on and off

Finally, with new release (v2.77) Google Maps API provides interface to toggle on and off markers on map. I will test it soon, since right now with Run-N-Share I have some problems with markers highlighting. Now to highlight marker I have destroy old one and create new one. In FireFox it causes some delay, and …

Google Maps and IPhone-like experience

When I saw Steve Jobs keynote announcing IPhone, I liked one UI feature very much. It was something I call ‘thrown scroll’. You know what I mean? If not, go and watch this video (1:30 after start, 1:20 before end): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_f-KK140vM OK, now You know what I mean. Now I wanted to get similar experience …

GM API shape getter plus bonus

Free goodies! Everybody likes them, am I right? Do You want some? Some time ago I wrote simple tool to create shapes (GPolygon) with GoogleMaps API. I planned to add some features like drag&drop and finally (after two months) found some time to finish it. On http://nhw.pl/download/points.html I have published new and shinny version. Drag&drop, …