Since Google Buzz is Twitterish in the sense that you can post a quick note, but different in the sense that (amongst other things), it can be longer than 140 characters. So in that vein, I’m starting to try to make a habit of a quick post (a couple per week) of things I do to make my life easier. This goes both for SysAdmins and for Programmers.
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Erics Tech Blog Thoughts, musings, and other idealistic (sometimes useful) systems and development hoopla.
Random Tech Notes And Buzz Updates
28 Jun 2010 — ericWhat Does Web 2.0 Mean To You?
23 Dec 2009 — ericI have been doing a lot of reading and a lot of thinking and trying to decide what exactly Web 2.0 means. What massive advancement in an emerging technology called the internet advocates an increment in major version number?
Some people say its the looks. The new feel of the internet with crazy CSS and rounded corners and a lighter more airy feeling. I don’t think that’s it.
Some people say that its the AJAX layer that has been added to the internet. This refers to the layer of interactivity a page web page can give you. I don’t think it’s this either.
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Custom Google Maps Marker With YM4R_GM
14 Dec 2009 — ericIn one my Rails applications, I allow the user to search for surrounding businesses from their current location. I always showed them a You Are Here marker. The issue I had with this was that the marker was always the icon as the search results. Differentiating these markers is actually extremely easy with ym4r_gm plugin.
First thing is to find a custom icon that you want to use. You can just Google for custom Google maps icons. I chose to use their default icon, just in a different blue. (You can download it here so you are working with what I am working with for this example). The next thing I did was to use the Google custom markers web site to find the proper config options for the icon.
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Transferring Email From Gmail/Google Apps to Dovecot With Larch
9 Dec 2009 — ericAs regular readers of this blog know, I am in the process of trying to back up Google Apps accounts to Dovecot. Well I have finally found my solution. Not only does it work, but its in Ruby.
First thing that you’ll need to do is grab yourself a copy of Larch. I did this simply by typing and it installed everything nicely, but click the link to the repository on Github if it doesn’t work for you.
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