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Developer's Corner / Minify Javascript Code

« on: October 05, 2009, 09:27 AM »

Does anyone have a recommendation on a Javascript minifier script/interface that is trusted to produce solid results.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Discover new places with Plarker

« on: October 04, 2009, 06:55 PM »

The Add Place functionality has been reworked is much more efficient at getting your places quickly added to your map:


Going to keep this in the sandbox for a couple days while I test to make sure I didn't break something by doing things a little different.

Thanx Mouser for the suggestion on this - its so much better now

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Discover new places with Plarker

« on: October 03, 2009, 09:12 AM »

Not yet.  I will be updating the marker bubble to include a pad-lock icon.  Hopefully that will come this weekend - need to get a proposal done first.

edited - This has been added and I will push an update Sunday night.  I really want to try and get the more efficient Add Place mechanism in place.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Discover new places with Plarker

« on: October 02, 2009, 06:01 PM »

Just made some minor interface updates.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Discover new places with Plarker

« on: October 02, 2009, 01:06 PM »

Tomos.  The issue should be fixed now.  Any location in the world can be selected and the geocoder will work without the catastrophic failure.

Thank you for bringing this to my attention.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Discover new places with Plarker

« on: October 02, 2009, 12:28 PM »

Thanx.  Tomos.  I see the problem with Germany so hopefully I will I have a fix shortly.  As far as states I actually didn't know that Germany had states.  Will look into this issue too.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Discover new places with Plarker

« on: October 02, 2009, 09:49 AM »

Germany should work.  Will look into this.   If you add a marker and give it a germany address it should be saved without an issue.  Is that not what you see?  Can you send me a valid German address that I can test with?

Adding a link or button on the logged in index page about adding a new place is not a problem - added to my todo list for tonight.

What links are hard to read?

Also, you have only two maps:
1) Your homepage map which is made up of your places and overlayed with places from anyone you're following
2) Your My Places map which is only your places.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Discover new places with Plarker

« on: October 02, 2009, 08:25 AM »

yes, very nice idea Veign

-tomos (October 02, 2009, 07:52 AM)

Thank You

I was wondering:
could it be possible to add things that arent shown on google maps?
i.e. I find the location on the map and mark it manually?
e.g. I live in the woods - I could recommend a lot of places to go that dont have addresses as such

-tomos (October 02, 2009, 07:52 AM)

Yes.  When you add a place just click the map to add marker anywhere on the map and then give a city and state name in the details section.  This will prevent Plarker from doing any kind of geocoding.

Re navigation:
with google maps (in FF) I can use Ctrl+mousewheel to zoom in on the map  - this makes navigation very easy.
I dont know how they do that because in FF Ctrl+Wheel normally zooms the whole page - if you could get it to work, the google maps way would be great.

-tomos (October 02, 2009, 07:52 AM)

That was in the first, private beta release but removed since I found when users had browser viewports smaller than the map they needed the scroll wheel to scroll the page and its was confusing when the map was intercepting the event.  Things I will be working on is a resizable map so the map can be any size (including full screen).  When this happens I will be adding the scrollbar event back in.

Thanx for the feedback and please keep the questions and comments coming.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Discover new places with Plarker

« on: October 01, 2009, 01:51 PM »

Didn't find it via Google since the domain never existed before I created it and its only been live for a couple days.  Will take time to get the word Plarker connected to the domain.

Thanx for pointing out the missing link...

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Discover new places with Plarker

« on: October 01, 2009, 01:29 PM »

Doh!  Post updated.  Mind my is mush from working on it.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Discover new places with Plarker

« on: October 01, 2009, 10:31 AM »

Based on your feedback the Add Place form will change to be more intuitive to how a user will expect it to work and make it efficient for them to enter places.  This is going to take some time to figure out and test (hopefully in a couple weeks it will be completed).

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Discover new places with Plarker

« on: October 01, 2009, 10:29 AM »

Its show what Googles API returns which is: One location if it thinks it found your location and multiple if there are any questions on their end.  When multiple locations are returned I do show that list below the locate textbox.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Discover new places with Plarker

« on: October 01, 2009, 09:37 AM »

Anyone else have any suggestions or comments on the site?

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Discover new places with Plarker

« on: September 30, 2009, 04:17 PM »

Ok.  Been updating the site throughout the day so anyone hitting one of the quirks they should be fixed now.  I also turned the image upload back on.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Discover new places with Plarker

« on: September 30, 2009, 01:18 PM »

Thanx mouser.  I'll work with on how to accomplish this.

Also, since this is the first public beta there may be issues and growing pains so please bear with me.  If you have suggestions on making it better shoot me an email.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Discover new places with Plarker

« on: September 30, 2009, 12:20 PM »

This is a personal project of mine that I wanted to share with the DC community.  Before I tell about, I'll share why I created it.  I was on a weekend getaway in a new city that I had never been to before.  Walking around the city I knew that friends had visited but didn't know where they had gone or restaurants they liked and would recommend.  It would have been nice to know what my friends would recommend (what I consider a trusted source recommendation).  This is why I created Plarker.  Basically I would have a single map made up of my places and the places of the users that I am following.

Link:
http://plarker.com

What is Plarker?
Plarker™ is a way discover new places to visit. You add places to your map. Your friends add places to theirs. Then share your maps. The places on your map and your friends map are overlayed onto a single map.

Thing you can do
# Create a map of places you've been
# Discover new places using your friends' maps
# Combine maps for a personalized map
# Embed maps on your website

Some usage ideas on Plarker
# Create a personal map and share your places with friends
# Setup a corporate account to let people add your business locations to their map
# Create an account for your town and tell others what's cool
# Like to hike? Show the trails where you've been
# Create an antiquing map and share the hotspots

Screenshots
The Homepage


Sample Map (all parks in the US)


Link:
http://plarker.com

Like everything I develop for personal use it Free and I am always looking for suggestions to improve it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Joomla experts: what extension for blog comments?

« on: September 26, 2009, 10:16 AM »

I've used ChronoComments on a project before:
http://www.chronoengine.com/

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Developer's Corner / Re: Netflix contest: $1M to developer of best movie recommendation engine

« on: September 21, 2009, 04:20 PM »

Based on your experience on the contest and the difficulty of the algorithm would you say that it was impossible for a single individual to achieve the goal and thus win the prize?

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Living Room / Re: Permanently Delete Your Facebook Account

« on: September 21, 2009, 12:34 PM »

Maybe I'm a minority here but I like Facebook.  A great way to keep up with friends and family that live nowhere near me. I like the connection I feel to them.  Just set some privacy stuff, don't join every cause, don't allow every application and only friend people you know and it can be a pretty positive experience.

I never understood hating for the sake of hating.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Need Code For Non-Profit Organization

« on: September 16, 2009, 11:10 AM »

Migrating is dead simple.  I migrated an install in minutes.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Need Code For Non-Profit Organization

« on: September 14, 2009, 03:05 PM »

CKEditor is FCKEditor.  FCKEditor no longer exists and should not be used - they won't support any future releases

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Idea - Whats in my fridge?

« on: September 14, 2009, 11:50 AM »

Maybe you should expand this idea into a simple website.  This way you can 'check the list' while shopping to make sure you don't buy something that is on your friends list that may be expiring.

I think the idea is perfect for a web app so its not tied to a single desktop.

Just my thoughts.

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Living Room / Re: Looking for help with a Logo

« on: September 13, 2009, 03:00 PM »

tinjaw (member here) is looking at doing this for me.

Basically, what I have is Ok for the website but not for creating various sizes (already need a larger version).  I do have the font so that part is not an issue.

Thanx for everyone who looked at this thread.

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Living Room / Re: Looking for help with a Logo

« on: September 13, 2009, 11:25 AM »

I'm currently working on my thesis, and to have vector images in the document I usually just print stuff to pdf.
Why can't you do it this way? Just have photoshop print it to pdf, then converting from pdf to eps should be really easy (pdftops + ps2eps).

-jgpaiva (September 13, 2009, 10:43 AM)

Since this is a logo, I want to make sure that the resulting EPS is a professional quality EPS (what ever information must be contained in it).  Graphics ain't my thing so I might be mistaking.

I thought the logo would need to be regenerated in something like illustrator and since it was basically a font and simple graphic that someone that knew illustrator would be able to do in in minutes.

I just don't know and might be way off base.

(fyi - You can make an EPS from within Photoshop using a custom shape - I think thats what it is - but I don't think the EPS contains the correct information and can really only be used from within Photoshop.)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Need Code For Non-Profit Organization

« on: September 13, 2009, 10:24 AM »

Not only that but a non-profit surely can afford $5/month for a hosting account over at Hostgator.  You'll find that by getting a better hosting account will save them so many future headaches and ultimately cost (based on time).  Plus it will allow them to use a CMS system like Joomla or Drupal.