Google is raising the skirt / opening the kimono / lifting the basket — choose your metaphor — on their API. That means everyone can create things using Google’s tools; no more screen-scraping, grovelling through the code, or reverse engineering. As Al_x said, “the bleeding edge gets healing ointment.”
Now that they’ve opened up the code, […]

What are images?
Much like arrays or strings in C, most image files are stored as long strings of numbers: so many colored squares across x so many colored squares high. These pixels together form an image.
“Convolution filters” in Photoshop show the underlying grid nature of images; entering numbers into the boxes transform an image by […]

Since google maps is A. in beta, and B. not technically “open” to third-party developers via an approved API, there are bound to be bumps in the road when your code depends on their internal libraries.
Sometime within the last week, Google appears to have upgraded maps.js, their Javascript mapping library, to a new version, breaking […]

OK, I know what I’m researching next…
http://feedmelinks.com/t/76845

started recording some basic web stats about site usage and viewing them with awstats. trying out some basic rules, like:
SkipFiles=”REGEX[\/wp-.+] REGEX[awstats] REGEX[xmlrpc]”

to ignore my web traffic as I’m creating and editing posts, and the traffic generated by the measurement tool itself.
We’ll see how it goes. So far, in my 10 years of making sites, I’ve […]

Maps is Google’s newest web application and it’s tying developers’ and users’ panties in a knot… in a good way.
(Sidebar: If you don’t know what Google Maps is yet, the hole in which you live must be both deep and well-decorated. But it’s never to late to jump on the bandwagon. Learn more by reading […]

Installing apache modules never made much sense to me. I’ve done it a few times without fanfare and yet every time I’m faced with some new module, it’s like starting from scratch.
I needed the WebDAV module mod_dav installed because I’m setting up a Subversion code repository, and a full server install of Subversion requires apache […]