I finally got around to updating my canvas / sql visualization code. Interacting with the map is now much easier. And I’ve posted a live demo of it here: http://crccheck.com/demo02 It’s not as refined as google maps, but it’s still pretty fancy. Navigation is done in the minimap, and you can draw on the large…
Read More A new canvas demoA couple days ago, I tried cloning my Windows Vista drive in preparation for upgrading to Windows 7. Something went wrong though, and my original drive wouldn’t boot anymore because of the infamous winload.exe. So I got rushed into upgrading to Windows 7 earlier and unprepared. But luckily, to a large degree I was prepared:…
Read More How I survived a fresh Windows 7 installThis one comes with a live demo! One of the biggest problems with my last Canvas experiment is that if you put text labels over points of interest, they quickly clutter up and become difficult to read. In this demo, I take a list of labels and the coordinates they belong, then I treat each…
Read More Next adventure in HTML CanvasTrying to navigate a PDF version of a map is a frustrating experience. Based on the recommendations of LifeHacker, I tried three PDF viewers: Adobe Acrobat : well supported, tons of features, too many features, bloated, slow, poor navigation, automatically launches auxiliary programs in the background. Tracker PDF-XChanger Viewer : free version is just spam…
Read More PDF viewer roundupI rewrote some JavaScript of mine to use <canvas> instead of a <pre> block to display some data from a database scraped from a webpage. So far, it’s looking a lot nicer: I can do all sorts of other cool visualizations of the data too. Some things I learned that weren’t in the Mozilla documentation:…
Read More Teaching Myself the HTML Canvas ElementThe LinkSys Wireless Manager is by far the worst wireless Manager I’ve ever used. There’s no interface, I have to sit through endless cycles of waiting while it figures out what’s going on, and there’s absolutely no debugging. I can’t even tell what my signal quality is. will post more when I figure out how…
Read More LinkSys Wireless Manager SucksI just transferred FireFox from my Windows XP laptop to my Windows Vista desktop. I found some decent guides on the Internet, but none of them were complete. Install Firefox onto the target computer. It should be the same version as your host computer. Transfer your remote settings. In my case, it was from C:\Documents…
Read More Transfering FireFox to a new computer/userI wonder if you could predict if someone prefers to enter numbers using the top row of the keyboard vs the numeric pad by asking them to create a long random number. Obviously, people will have a tendency to not reuse the same finger twice in a row, and also not use a key adjacent…
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