What Does Web 2.0 Mean To You?

23 Dec 2009 — eric

I 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 — eric

In 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 — eric

As 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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Backing Up Gmail/Google Apps to a Dovecot Server

3 Dec 2009 — eric

I have been trying to find a way to copy everything from a Gmail account to a Dovecot mail server. The way I have ended up doing it so far is simply by using Apple Mail (if you regularly read this blog, you’d know that I use a Mac). The steps are as follows:

  1. Create 2 accounts in Apple Mail: Gmail and the Dovecot account
  2. Sync the Gmail account to your local computer
  3. Copy everything to the Dovecot server

This works, but I have to use a slow connection (my home connection) and I have a lot of accounts to do this for, so I would much prefer to script this. The problem is that I have been trying to get this to work with either imapsync or imapcopy. Neither seem to work properly.
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