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Create Your Own Geodatabase using Ruby on Rails and Google Maps

Geocoding with Ruby on Rails isn’t a big deal. But sometimes you have do more than simple geocoding. For real estate webpages you need information about state, county or suburb for a given address. This tutorial will show you how to build your own geodatabase without overusing google maps requests(limited...

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ApplyHQ launched

Posted by Lars | Posted in Misc | Posted on 16-06-2009

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After many hours of work i’m proud to say - it’s done. On June, 15th ApplyHQ.com launched successfully.

I am grateful for the support of my twitter friends. They have given me many helpful hints i’m going to implement next days and weeks.

ApplyHQ.com is a web application providing freelancers services to apply for jobs and projects in a easier, faster and professional way. Its purpose is to simplify project and job acquisition for hard working freelancers.

Use tweetmeme plugin with redtime theme

Posted by Lars | Posted in Wordpress | Posted on 05-06-2009

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While i was setting up the new theme to this blog i found a small problem with the tweetmeme plugin. The featured post wasn’t displayed correctly because of the javascript code from tweetmeme.

It has costed me some efford but here comes the solution. This bug can be fixed easily by modifying the fn-general.php file inside the themes/redtime/includes folder.

17 Visual Effects for Ruby on Rails RJS functions

Posted by Lars | Posted in Rails, Ruby, Tutorials | Posted on 01-06-2009

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Ruby on Rails has a scriptaculous framework integration out of the box. The Rails helper functions are very powerful, but every time i need a visual_effect i have to search in API docs to get all Rails supported scriptaculous effects.

To shorten the search i’m going to list all 17 supported effects.