Archive for the 'Programming' Category

Amazon AWS S3

October 29th, 2008 - Programming, Technology, mac - No Comments

I’m tired of WildObs users struggling with (or objecting to) Flickr. WildObs is not a photos site, it is about encounters data (what, where, when & who) but some encounters are just richer with a photo. I followed the Flickr directions, created an “import from Flickr” rails application (I’ll post code if folks are interested) yet [...]

PHP Phorum on Rails restful_authentication database

October 28th, 2008 - Programming - No Comments

With the help of a friend I created a module to allow an instance of the PHP forum package Phorum to integrate with an instance of the Rails restful_authentication database. Basically it perform authentication against the user table that the restful_authentication plugin produces, and then synchronizes that user record with a Phorum user record allow [...]

Have Google Maps & YM4R stopped cooperating?

October 22nd, 2008 - Programming, Technology - 1 Comment

Today I noticed that WildObs Google maps stopped showing controls, and that informational windows stopped popping. Having spent a couple of hours tinkering (removing this, removing that, questioning everything) & generally pulling my hair out. I am starting to wonder if YM4R and Google are not playing nicely today. I can see the google maps [...]

StackOverflow overflowing

October 18th, 2008 - Programming, Technology - No Comments

Recently I did a search for “restful_authentication and open id” (looking for if others had done a better job of integrating the two than I had) and came upon “StackOverflow” in the the search results. Having thoroughly respected item #1 on Joel’s StackOverflow introduction,  in short — get answers don’t get rambling discussions — I [...]