Monthly Archives: February 2007

GeoKit: Going International?

We have been asked whether GeoKit could be made to support UK addresses and this is something that we’re interested in doing.  I must admit that I was incompletely uninformed as to how different these addresses really are.  Just have … Continue reading

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Who is doing Rails?

The recent GeoKit publicity has caused an influx of new visitors to this blog. Now that the traffic is subsiding somewhat, I thought I’d take a look at the geography of Rails. It seems an appropriate tangential GeoKit topic. So … Continue reading

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GeoKit: More Syntactic Sugar

We just checked in code which improves the readability of GeoKit’s finders. Its quite obvious from the code, so just take a look at these examples: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 … Continue reading

Posted in GeoKit, Open Source, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Uncategorized | 6 Comments

GeoKit: Improvements to distance_between and distance_to

Over at Earthcode, a request was made to enable the distance_between and distance_to methods to accept physical locations in pre-geocoded string form. I have added this improvement, so you can now do: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 # … Continue reading

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Restore CSS Inspection in Firebug on Windows

At work, I work in a Windows XP environment and noticed that Firebug would not allow me to inspect CSS.  Since I do mostly Java, I hadn’t worried about that.  However, today, I had to debug a stylesheet problem in … Continue reading

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CodeRay-ize Your Code into HTML

I recently discovered CodeRay as a means to pretty up my Rails-based tutorial examples. But unfortunately, this blog runs under WordPress which is PHP-based, so I can’t use CodeRay here. Or can I? While not the most seamless process, I … Continue reading

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GeoKit: Some Minor Feature Tweaks

In the last couple of days, I added a couple of minor feature tweaks. First, the finders will now all accept optional :units and :formula keys to enable you to override the units and formula used by the model by … Continue reading

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GeoKit Examples

On Friday when GeoKit was released, I wrote a pretty lame write-up.  I am fixing that now with some live examples.  I’m working on them as I write this, but you can check now or come back later.  They are … Continue reading

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GeoKit: My First Rails Plug-in

This is a follow-up to my last post on distance queries in Rails. Since that post, I’ve enlisted the help of Andre Lewis at Earthcode.com to help super-charge the feature set. If you don’t know Andre, he’s the author of … Continue reading

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