Category Archives: Programming

Where 2007 Conference

By Ryan Stephenson | Published: May 29, 2007

As the Where Conference takes place, I watch from far away since I’m not yet on the map. A few interesting items recently noted: GeoPress/MT brings the MoveableType blog crowd into the maps, GeoRSS, KML, and Microformats space with a plugin to make marking up content easy. WordPress users have enjoyed similar for a while, [...]

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Play with Ruby

By Ryan Stephenson | Published: October 9, 2006

I need to “play” with a programming language before I find myself really comfortable with it. Playing doesn’t just mean solving some problems or writing an app, but instead simply experimenting with the available functionality — exploring instead of producing. TextMate has served me well for this, as I can write some code and immediately [...]

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Google Map Address Geocoding

By Ryan Stephenson | Published: June 13, 2006

Google released geocoding updates to the JavaScript API they provide developers today. This is huge for allowing us the ability to improve the user experience in interfaces with location data. Until now, we’ve had to rely on external sources. Tapping the Google source makes plenty sense. I’ve been largely distracted by other things, so two [...]

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Microformats Search and Ping Services

By Ryan Stephenson | Published: June 1, 2006

Technorati’s Microformats Search and Pingerati push the microformats goals further into view of the blogosphere; expect buzz to snowball and spread to the rest of the web. Yay Technorati! The Microformats Search publicly supports hCard, hCalendar, and hReview. Pingerati has specific ping locations that specialize in those and adds specifics for hlisting and xfolk formats [...]

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Preserve HTML in XML with XSL

By Ryan Stephenson | Published: May 23, 2006

I spent longer on this than I should have, when the answer is so simple; I’m posting here to remind myself when it comes up again, and I hope the included keywords assist in anyone’s search for the same information. The xsl:copy-of element can be used to insert a result tree fragment into the result [...]

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Bike Ride Finder

By Ryan Stephenson | Published: November 7, 2005

sharetheride.net is a bike ride finder tool for locating and sharing group cycling events. It came about largely as an excuse to play with the Google Maps API and some custom code, and I’m mostly pleased with the plan, though the execution still needs some work. Features and design are still lacking, but the groundwork [...]

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ASP.NET Cache

By Ryan Stephenson | Published: May 24, 2005

If I want to use ASP.NET cache in the code-behind page using System.Web.Caching, I can easily reference the Cache object to .Add, .Get, etc. If I am writing classes and functions outside of the ASP.NET page scope but still need to reference that cache, I found it helpful to explicitly reference HttpContext.Current.Cache. Otherwise, I was [...]