Archive for April, 2008

Yesterday, we released the improved feature of sharing ZoomIn maps, which allows users to embed maps on their websites, also enable users to customize the width and height of the iframe.

Here is an example, I’m using ZoomIn map to show the location of ProjectX

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Earlier this week, changes to the Alexa ranking system (owned by Amazon) have caused a big changes in the Rankr top 100 sites of NZ.

The big news is that TradeMe has dropped from 2 most popular site (behind) google to 4th. Others in the top 100 have traded positions.

In comparison to real traffic figures, it seems to be re-adjusting itself to be inline to the relative positions of companies and their real traffic.

It will be interesting to see if this is the first of many changes from Alexa.

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Google maps, ZoomIn maps and et are like the MP3 of the GIS world. It has made mapping and spatial visualisation available to everyone with a browser. Just as MP3 maybe not be good enough for audiophiles, google maps is not going to be powerful enough for a lot of serious GIS work. The simplicity of Google maps is going drive the consumption of GIS information into a new era.

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Congrats to Code Blacks, in winning the half-baked challenge. Yet again, we see that as in rugby having a home field advantage has merit.

Lots of rumours floating around about the silence of the judging panel in response to the Code Blacks pitch (except for Rowan as noted in the comments). And we heard that Rod left in disgust after being he and the other judge were snubbed in choosing the winner.
Anyways, it was a fun time, had by all and big thanks to all the Silicon Team, it was most entertaining.

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I’m part of the Silicon All-Stars team in the webstock halfbaked challenge

Its seems like a bit of a no contest… a bunch of industry professionals (Code Blacks) vs a group of battle hardened entrepreneurs (Silicon Welly All-Stars). The excuses are already starting to flow..

The CodeBlacks have been hit with injuries and players signing to overseas leagues for exorbitant sums. In fact the team is down to only three original CodeBlacks…

OK, full credit to the code blacks, they did build a website in 24 hours, but you’re talking to seasoned entrepreneurs and our businesses crank out new products, websites and business ideas every other week!.

The Silicon Welly All-Stars have strong history, we’ve raised more money, won more awards, launched more products, released more code, marketed more ideas, hired more people!

And we have our secret weapon team captain Tim Norton - the fast mouth in the south. 5 minutes to pitch a new business, he’s already demo’d PlanHQ to world in 6 minutes.

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    Added on 04/20/2008 at 09:32PM
    Getting creative with PNG transparency
    Added on 04/20/2008 at 09:30PM

    10 reasons entrepreneurs need to have more vacations
    Added on 04/20/2008 at 03:04PM

    NSFW Blocker Using MooTools and CSS: How to dynamically mask images that are not safe for work
    Added on 04/18/2008 at 11:29AM

    IBM launches internal pilot program to test migration to Macs
    Added on 04/18/2008 at 10:08AM

    Fostering Innovation at Pixar
    Added on 04/18/2008 at 09:45AM

    Busy.js - javascript loading library
    Added on 04/17/2008 at 09:34AM

    Usingjs library - Managing Javascript dependencies
    Added on 04/15/2008 at 01:01PM

    KML is now a OGS standard
    Added on 04/15/2008 at 10:21AM

    More from 37 signals on Ricardo Semeler’s Maverick
    Added on 04/15/2008 at 09:55AM

    XMPP: Hat tip to Rowan for spotting the new technology
    Added on 04/15/2008 at 09:12AM

    Salesforce with Google Apps
    Added on 04/14/2008 at 05:15PM

    37 signals on Gary Vaynerchuk branding and marketing
    Added on 04/10/2008 at 10:38AM

    37 Signals on “Maverick ” - Ricardo Semler’s book : This is one of the best business books out therehellip
    Added on 04/10/2008 at 10:31AM

    Super Mario written in Javascript : All the Super Mario goodness in only 14k
    Added on 04/09/2008 at 07:26PM

    Heroku - RoR platform on the cloud
    Added on 04/09/2008 at 05:23PM

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The setup method for ActionController::TestCase is useful in some circumstances, e.g. having a user login in your tests.

def setup
super
login_as :quentin
end

However, when you run the tests, all your tests with login_required fails.

Basically, this is a bug in Rails 2.0.2 where setup is not called. This was fixed in revision 8442 (one revision after rails 2.0.2 was released). See http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/10568

So, we would want that revision by using:

rake rails:freeze:edge REVISION=8442

NOTE: rubyonrails.org is down/domain expired so rake might fail. In the meantime, try svn export or some other way to get revision 8442 from another repository.

UPDATE: rubyonrails.org is back up (domain renewed)!

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