Category: Web Development

  • Red Bull Air Force Altimeter

    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.

  • RSF Social Finance

    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,…

  • WordPress Geo Mashup Release 1.2.3

    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.

  • HOLZ und EISEN

    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…

  • Private Islands Magazine Map

    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…

  • Expanding Development News

    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. I’ll also continue to post release announcements here. If you only want to receive Geo Mashup…

  • WordPress Geo Mashup Release 1.2.2

    Yes, another one! In today’s episode, I learn not to speak English. But for those in a hurry, if you have 1.2.1 running, this isn’t a crucial upgrade. If you had any trouble installing 1.2.1, try 1.2.2. WordPress provides some help to plugins that need to upgrade their tables, but it often causes some silent…

  • WordPress Geo Mashup Release 1.2.1

    Whew, this one has been educational for me. It began with the discovery that the data conversion process in 1.2 was not compatible with MySQL 4, despite appearances to the contrary in the old manuals. Lesson 1: as long as I can afford a test bed on MySQL 4, keep it around. As I worked…

  • WordPress Geo Mashup Release 1.2

    Feedback on 1.2beta2 has been good, so I have released 1.2. It’s working like a champ on a number of production sites already. This is the best Geo Mashup release so far, I think, largely because several organizations have hired me for Geo Mashup-related work, which has really helped the quality of the plugin. Individual…

  • WordPress Geo Mashup Release 1.2 Beta 2

    I’ve been able to put a lot of effort into new features in this release, thanks in great part to a burgeoning relationship with Vernal Creative. They make fantastic looking websites and have convinced some clients to underwrite new Geo Mashup features. Have a look at RSF Social Finance for an example. This is a…