http://www.zelph.com Aaron Barker's random bablings Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:32:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is kind of a weird post to start up with after almost a year of silence, but I guess you have to start somewhere. So here I sit at SXSW. I was all kinds of excited to come after having some great experiences last year. The best being ... http://www.zelph.com/archives/2007/03/12/sxsw-2007/ Here's my second resuable script to hopefully find a home in the wild wild web... onViewable. Instead of duplicating all the details of the script here, please see it on it's own page. The jist of the script is that it's a function that allows a snippet of code ... http://www.zelph.com/archives/2006/03/04/introducing-onviewable/ When playing the fun new game Fastr with a few friends it was difficult to see where they were in the rankings with it being so popular (100+ people in the game at a time). So I wanted a way to easily see where they were. So, here's a super ... http://www.zelph.com/archives/2006/01/28/fastrfriends-bookmarklet-version2/ This is just a quick plugin for ShortStat that will put your visitors on a map using the Google Maps API. I wanted to get a quick visualization of where visitors were coming from, without having to add more scripts to my site from some of the other ... http://www.zelph.com/archives/2005/11/07/visitormap-plugin-for-shortstat/ Just got done playing with Google Earth and all I can say is "wow!" Every time I ran into a new cool feature my jaw would drop a little farther. The fluid zoom, rotate, and angle can be played with for hours. Adding in the other features such as ... http://www.zelph.com/archives/2005/06/28/google-earth-wow/ Today I release my first reuseable script into the wild. Hopefully it will be found useful and can help other projects move along as well. Thanks to the new pages function of WordPress 1.5 this will live at it's own location, so there can be a single point of reference ... http://www.zelph.com/archives/2005/03/31/introducing-ondomload/ In continuing to play with the site (and in anticipation of a few actual articles actually being written) I have installed ShortStat, from the man himself Shaun Inman, so that I get all the spiffy info that comes with it. My version is located here for all to poke fun ... http://www.zelph.com/archives/2005/03/18/shortstat-installed/ Finally made the move to WordPress 1.5. Upgrade went pretty smooth except for a little hiccup with the .htaccess file which made the whole domain show up as a 500 error. Renamed the old one and put in an empty one and all is good. Installed the del.icio.us integrator ... http://www.zelph.com/archives/2005/03/18/upgrade-complete/ Eric Meyer just posted an updateto his s5 script in which he has added support for alpha transparency for IE6. The fix comes thanks to Erik Arvidsson’s pngbehavior.htc. Very cool... sucks to have to hack around IE yet again but what are you going to do? His one ... http://www.zelph.com/archives/2005/01/28/ie6-png-alpha-transparency-script/ I've finally seen some footage of the devastation caused by the tsunami and it's just incredible. The forces of nature never cease to amaze me. Kirk over at Reasons Unbeknownst has created a torrent of some videos and other files related to the tsunami. He is creating another file ... http://www.zelph.com/archives/2004/12/30/indian-ocean-tsunami/