March 5, 2010, 3:56 p.m.
For at least the past week I've been compulsively working on upgrading my map creator at Ride Free Bike Maps. The upgrade that I published isn't an upgrade to the main app, per se. It's a demonstration of where the app is headed beautifully displayed in a parallel instance of the software. Essentially I created a new instance of the app and gave it special powers to load a single, hard coded route, from a database. A database which includes a grand total of TWO ROUTES! You can check out the upgrade to the bike map creator here and the post that announced it here.
All kidding aside, I did spend a lot of time on this. Mostly because this is beyond anything I've ever done before. Databases, CGI, and AJAX are things I had to learn to get this working. hopefully I'll be able to easily expand this further by creating some kind of public access to the route creation process.
I'm super proud of myself for getting this working. Go me!
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March 5, 2010, 3:56 p.m.
For at least the past week I've been compulsively working on upgrading my map creator at Ride Free Bike Maps. The upgrade that I published isn't an upgrade to the main app, per se. It's a demonstration of where the app is headed beautifully displayed in a parallel instance of the software. Essentially I created a new instance of the app and gave it special powers to load a single, hard coded route, from a database. A database which includes a grand total of TWO ROUTES! You can check out the upgrade to the bike map creator here and the post that announced it here.
All kidding aside, I did spend a lot of time on this. Mostly because this is beyond anything I've ever done before. Databases, CGI, and AJAX are things I had to learn to get this working. hopefully I'll be able to easily expand this further by creating some kind of public access to the route creation process.
I'm super proud of myself for getting this working. Go me!
Posted via email from Ian's Posterous
Jan. 21, 2010, 10:02 p.m.
So for the past three days I've been working on upgrading the UI of the map Creator app. The goal is to make it more intuitive and streamlined. I've got the bulk of the app done, all that is left is some fiddly CSS changes. Hopefully I'll get those taken care of tomorrow. If I don't the update will go live regardless because I'm going south for the weekend.
Without fully detailing the changes here is what I've been working on:
I will be writing a more detailed post when the changes go live so stay tuned!
Posted via email from Ian's posterous
Jan. 21, 2010, 10:02 p.m.
So for the past three days I've been working on upgrading the UI of the map Creator app. The goal is to make it more intuitive and streamlined. I've got the bulk of the app done, all that is left is some fiddly CSS changes. Hopefully I'll get those taken care of tomorrow. If I don't the update will go live regardless because I'm going south for the weekend.
Without fully detailing the changes here is what I've been working on:
I will be writing a more detailed post when the changes go live so stay tuned!
Posted via email from Ian's posterous
Dec. 24, 2009, 11:23 a.m.
Initially I had planned for this blog to strictly be a promotional tool for my other blog/webapp www.ridefreebikemaps.com. After making this blog and failing to update it all I decided to abandon that idea and turn this into a personal blog.
The initial idea was to make all kinds of posts optimized for the keywods 'bike maps.' Now I'm just gonna post about the things that I'm into, cycling, beer, tech, and whatever adventures I get into. I'll be doing a lot of posting using posterous so if you prefer you can get the same quality content there!
So don't expect too much from this blog. It is going to be my 'fun only' blog. If you are down to look at the random pics I take with my phone and various rants and ramblings great! Subscribe to the rss!
Until next time!
-Ian