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Easily improve performance when rendering hundreds or thousands of Google Maps markers. This script massively improved performance of a high-intensity Google Maps mashup I've been building.
Aaron: April 2009 Archives
I search for this every time I set up a new Mac, and every time it takes a bit of Googling. Here's how to standardize the Home, End, Page Up and Page Down keys in the Mac OSX Terminal application:
- Home
- \033[1~
- End
- \033[4~
- Page Up
- \033[5~
- Page Down
- \033[6~
tagged with: I've been compiling wget from source on machines for a long time because of the production version's inability to parse CSS @import and @url commands. Thankfully, Ted Mielczarek has a patched version that supports them. Rumor is, this will be included in wget 1.12.
I had trouble getting this to compile today on an Ubuntu Hardy machine. The issue turned out to be a missing dependency: flex. The following series of commands should work from a fresh install:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wget
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get build-dep wget
sudo apt-get install flex
After that, you should be able to run ./configure, make and make install from Ted's source directory.
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This post just gave me the tip I needed to fix an annoying FFMPEG encoding problem with extra-high quality source video (from a broadcast-quality TV camera).
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I almost built something like this... but I eventually decided it wasn't a good fit for rails... I went a different way that I'll release publicly sometime this year. Curious to check this out though.
Just heard this great Clem Snide song, called Find Love on NPR's All Songs Considered:
Don't let hurricanes hold you back
Raging rivers or shark attacks
Find love, and give it all away
Find love, and give it all away
Wrestle bears bring them to their knees
Steal the honey from killer bees
Find love, and give it all away
Find love, and give it all away
Don't be scared to connect the dots
And dig for gold in the parking lot
Find love, and then give it all away
Find love, then give it all away
Find love, then give it all away
Who's this guy?
Aaron Longwell is Chief Web Craftsman at New Media Logic Corporation in Coeur d' Alene, Idaho. As a professional software developer for 12 years and a student of public policy, he occasionally has interesting things to say about software, technology, culture and politics.
