Monthly Archives: February 2007

GeoKit: Going International?

Posted on February 22, 2007 by Bill

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 →

Posted in GeoKit, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Uncategorized | 5 Comments

Who is doing Rails?

Posted on February 21, 2007 by Bill

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 →

Posted in GeoKit, Ruby, Ruby on Rails | 3 Comments

GeoKit: More Syntactic Sugar

Posted on February 18, 2007 by Bill

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

Posted on February 14, 2007 by Bill

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

Posted on February 13, 2007 by Bill

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

Posted on February 13, 2007 by Bill

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

Posted on February 12, 2007 by Bill

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

Posted on February 10, 2007 by Bill

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

Posted on February 9, 2007 by Bill

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 →

Posted in Open Source, Ruby, Ruby on Rails | 8 Comments