I’ve been working on building the mobile version of CarsIreland.ie lately and one of the features we want is to offer directions from a user’s current location to any of our car dealerships, assuming we have their latitude and longitude co-ordinates. Getting the directions and displaying them on a map are ridiculously simple, thanks to […]
2012
Safari and long lines in Google Maps Javascript API Directions Service
11th October, 2012 - Posted by david
How to set up an SVN server over HTTPS on Apache
2nd August, 2012 - Posted by david
So, I recently started a new job as Lead Developer on carsireland.ie and one of the first things I was tasked with was moving the codebase from a simple PC running Linux to the cloud, so that it could be accessed remotely, outside the office. Now, while I do prefer Git, SVN is still reasonably […]
php, error_log and newlines: a solution
15th May, 2012 - Posted by david
When it comes to coding and debugging, I generally keep things simple, opting for a basic text editor (Sublime Text 2 with Vim key-bindings being my current choice) and simple debug output statements when trying to track down a bug. With my current job, I deal with an API over AJAX so it’s not easy […]
window.onload firing too early in IE
12th May, 2012 - Posted by david
The Problem Where I work, our tool supports 6 different languages, where translations are contained in various sets of language files. One of these sets consists of the translations stored in Javascript files as JSON blocks