hobolog :: Web Development

Release 1.2.6 is a collection of small fixes issues including some leftover strange category line behavior, the disappearance of tabs on the option page in WordPress 2.8, some wrong icons in the visible post list (issue 226), and future post info windows (issue 213).

Release 1.3alpha1 is a preview of some 1.3 features – see the brief documentation for more.

Remember there’s a solution now for protecting your custom files from automatic upgrades. See the upgrade considerations before upgrading Geo Mashup automatically. Of course the usual methods are fine too.

I’m going to be away during July, and not available for hire until August!

Yesterday a bug in the Google maps API caused Geo Mashup global maps to be spattered with unwanted category lines (Issue 208). This release fixes that, and a couple of minor problems with the tabbed category index and list posts by area controls.

I have a solution now for protecting your custom files from automatic upgrades. See the upgrade considerations before upgrading Geo Mashup automatically. Of course the usual methods are fine too.

Teamed up with Vernal Creative again, we put Geo Mashup to work mapping and listing the theaters that belong to this organization. The presentation is simple and effective, but it also exemplifies the way Geo Mashup makes WordPress into a GeoCMS. The map is really a map of WordPress pages, but in this context a located page is a theater. WordPress gives you posts and pages, Geo Mashup locates them for you, and you give them meaning for yourself and your audience.

Soon, Geo Mashup will locate users and comments for you also…

Fixes some problems saving locations (Issue 194) and a rare “duplicate entry” WordPress database error. Upgrade as usual.

I worked with visionsmith.com to use Geo Mashup to manage the geo content of this team of skiing, skydiving, BASE-jumping, paragliding maniacs. This site makes especially good use of Geo Mashup’s full post display and tabbed category index to create a highly interactive map for exploring the content of the site.

This site by Vernal Creative has worldwide projects organized into categories and subcategories. The challenge was to display these in tabs based on category, then post listings based on subcategory, where the post listing link would open its marker on the map. Our success gave Geo Mashup a cool new control, the tabbed category index, capable of many configurations in addition to the original at RSF.

A couple more small bug fixes for Geo Mashup, for sticky posts showing up in all info windows, and percentage widths not being allowed in saved settings. Upgrade as usual.

This is one of my favorite Geo Mashup customizations, a compendium of guerrilla-style golfing locations in Germany. There are some features here I haven’t done anywhere else, like the maximized info window and interactive paged location list in the sidebar. You don’t have to speak German to have some fun playing with this one, while enjoying the nice design and good humor.

This was a small project done earlier this year, one of a few instances where I was hired to customize the content of the info window. That work eventually led me to the idea for the info window template feature, which puts this kind of result within an educated user’s grasp. The newer interactive legend would work nicely in this setting also.

I’ve been working on a lot of cool projects, mostly related to Geo Mashup, that I’d like to start writing about here. I’ll profile sites I’ve worked on, noting innovative implementations and their influence on my open source projects.

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