1. Download data and software The instructions are fairly generic, so should work for both Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. I wrote them for Windows, but I’ve since then switched to Mac OS X. PostgreSQL+PostGIS I assume that you…
Update: The previous version of this howto was a bit unclear or even erroneous, and some people had problems getting it to work. I have now rewritten it and testet it with SOLR 3.5.0 and jQuery 1.7.1. Making SOLR return…
See below for commands using the Fusion Tables API. Example table is the oldschool message wall public table. Note that examples are shown first without the required url-encoding. Authenticating: Getting the auth token To authenticate you may use the following…
Loading jQuery using plain Javascript:: // inject e.g. jQuery into a webpage var thescript = ”; var newscript = document.createElement( ‘script’ ); newscript.setAttribute( ‘src’, thescript ); newscript.setAttribute( ‘type’, ‘text/javascript’ ); var head = document.getElementsByTagName(“head”)[0]; head.appendChild(newscript); To call this from your…
Today I’ve authored a simple plugin for jQuery that does ASCIIMATION. It was inspired by the classic Star Wars asciimation. You can have a look at the google code repository for jQuery asciimation or check out the online demo starring…
Here I have captured a thought process I had while reading about algorithms for hard graph problems. The thoughts are inspired by MapReduce, distributed merge sort and the more colorful newspapers of the world. Summary of thoughts Given an instance…