Comments on: So who wants to do a nice shiny mash-up? http://findingada.com/2009/01/so-who-wants-to-do-a-nice-shiny-mash-up/ Bringing women in technology to the fore Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:12:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Tony Kennick http://findingada.com/2009/01/so-who-wants-to-do-a-nice-shiny-mash-up/comment-page-1/#comment-193 Tony Kennick Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:11:07 +0000 http://findingada.com/blog/2009/01/21/so-who-wants-to-do-a-nice-shiny-mash-up/#comment-193 Jim - Tweetfeed will do the pull from twitter based on the hashtag automagically. the other option is a wordpress plugin to have the latest tweets listed. Jim – Tweetfeed will do the pull from twitter based on the hashtag automagically. the other option is a wordpress plugin to have the latest tweets listed.

]]> By: Jim Whitman http://findingada.com/2009/01/so-who-wants-to-do-a-nice-shiny-mash-up/comment-page-1/#comment-167 Jim Whitman Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:10:31 +0000 http://findingada.com/blog/2009/01/21/so-who-wants-to-do-a-nice-shiny-mash-up/#comment-167 Hi I read about 'tweetups' recently. Could twits also be mapped? This could form the basis for people who tweet deciding upon where to meet up, if they like the idea, that is? Jim Hi
I read about ‘tweetups’ recently. Could twits also be mapped? This could form the basis for people who tweet deciding upon where to meet up, if they like the idea, that is?
Jim

]]> By: using my head » Blog Archive » Celebrating women in technology: Ada Lovelace Day http://findingada.com/2009/01/so-who-wants-to-do-a-nice-shiny-mash-up/comment-page-1/#comment-141 using my head » Blog Archive » Celebrating women in technology: Ada Lovelace Day Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:12:18 +0000 http://findingada.com/blog/2009/01/21/so-who-wants-to-do-a-nice-shiny-mash-up/#comment-141 [...] other women you know who work in technology, and I hope you will join the pledge, too. You can also chip in with other stuff, or just follow findingada on Twitter to stay abreast of what’s [...] [...] other women you know who work in technology, and I hope you will join the pledge, too. You can also chip in with other stuff, or just follow findingada on Twitter to stay abreast of what’s [...]

]]> By: Tony Kennick http://findingada.com/2009/01/so-who-wants-to-do-a-nice-shiny-mash-up/comment-page-1/#comment-140 Tony Kennick Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:57:45 +0000 http://findingada.com/blog/2009/01/21/so-who-wants-to-do-a-nice-shiny-mash-up/#comment-140 1) There are several ways to do that, the 'view' on Zoho has searching and grouping. Unfortunately it only wants to give a drop down list as an option if that field is a drop down on the input form. 2) We can interrogate the data anyway we want, another part of zoho will take the data and we can look at it as if it was a spreadsheet (http://url.ie/14re) or database or even chart it http://url.ie/14rf 3) Absolutely, we may have to save it as static views to ensure it persists, but not an issue. 1) There are several ways to do that, the ‘view’ on Zoho has searching and grouping. Unfortunately it only wants to give a drop down list as an option if that field is a drop down on the input form.
2) We can interrogate the data anyway we want, another part of zoho will take the data and we can look at it as if it was a spreadsheet (http://url.ie/14re) or database or even chart it http://url.ie/14rf
3) Absolutely, we may have to save it as static views to ensure it persists, but not an issue.

]]> By: Pamela Fox http://findingada.com/2009/01/so-who-wants-to-do-a-nice-shiny-mash-up/comment-page-1/#comment-139 Pamela Fox Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:09:02 +0000 http://findingada.com/blog/2009/01/21/so-who-wants-to-do-a-nice-shiny-mash-up/#comment-139 Hey folks-- Just wanted to say I'm participating in Ada Lovelace Day and also happen to be the support engineer for the Google Maps API, so I'm happy to help anyone who wants to use that for a mashup. (If we did so, we could use a spreadsheet + spreadsheet form, or an AppEngine app). - pamela Hey folks–

Just wanted to say I’m participating in Ada Lovelace Day and also happen to be the support engineer for the Google Maps API, so I’m happy to help anyone who wants to use that for a mashup. (If we did so, we could use a spreadsheet + spreadsheet form, or an AppEngine app).

- pamela

]]> By: Suw http://findingada.com/2009/01/so-who-wants-to-do-a-nice-shiny-mash-up/comment-page-1/#comment-138 Suw Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:46:38 +0000 http://findingada.com/blog/2009/01/21/so-who-wants-to-do-a-nice-shiny-mash-up/#comment-138 A few further thoughts. * Is it possible to search by language? It would be nice for people just to see posts in, say, Spanish . * Is it possible for us to see who is getting the most blog posts? It would be an interesting exercise, to see which women get blogged about the most. * Would we be able to archive this so that we have a permanent record? A few further thoughts.

* Is it possible to search by language? It would be nice for people just to see posts in, say, Spanish .
* Is it possible for us to see who is getting the most blog posts? It would be an interesting exercise, to see which women get blogged about the most.
* Would we be able to archive this so that we have a permanent record?

]]> By: Tony Kennick http://findingada.com/2009/01/so-who-wants-to-do-a-nice-shiny-mash-up/comment-page-1/#comment-107 Tony Kennick Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:18:44 +0000 http://findingada.com/blog/2009/01/21/so-who-wants-to-do-a-nice-shiny-mash-up/#comment-107 Christine Burns, both your entries are mapped but one pin sits exactly over the other, on the Yahoo pipes map, if you hit the forward and back arrows you can see both entries. If you view the KML file with google maps it does the same thing, but as it renders a list of entries down the side it is more obvious that the location has two entries. It will be difficult to fix this issue without going the whole hog and doing a custom mapping mashup and jogging any overlapping pins so they separate. I will also look into where it is more efficient to check for the 'http://' prefix and add it in, I may be able to do it as part of validation in the Zoho front end, rather than the pipe. Christine Burns, both your entries are mapped but one pin sits exactly over the other, on the Yahoo pipes map, if you hit the forward and back arrows you can see both entries. If you view the KML file with google maps it does the same thing, but as it renders a list of entries down the side it is more obvious that the location has two entries. It will be difficult to fix this issue without going the whole hog and doing a custom mapping mashup and jogging any overlapping pins so they separate.
I will also look into where it is more efficient to check for the ‘http://’ prefix and add it in, I may be able to do it as part of validation in the Zoho front end, rather than the pipe.

]]> By: Christine Burns http://findingada.com/2009/01/so-who-wants-to-do-a-nice-shiny-mash-up/comment-page-1/#comment-105 Christine Burns Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:41:25 +0000 http://findingada.com/blog/2009/01/21/so-who-wants-to-do-a-nice-shiny-mash-up/#comment-105 This is a very impressive mashup. It's amazing what folks can just throw together these days with just a few standard web components! A couple of test points: First, URL's aren't recognised unless they have the http:// prefix. It would be good to pre-enter this as a prompt in the box or test and add the prefix yourself. How long a URL can you cope with too? People will most likely be posting permalinks. Second, both my test entries had the same post code but only one appears to be mapped. I checked the mapping though and it was spot on -- even Kindest regards Christine This is a very impressive mashup. It’s amazing what folks can just throw together these days with just a few standard web components!

A couple of test points:

First, URL’s aren’t recognised unless they have the http:// prefix. It would be good to pre-enter this as a prompt in the box or test and add the prefix yourself. How long a URL can you cope with too? People will most likely be posting permalinks.

Second, both my test entries had the same post code but only one appears to be mapped. I checked the mapping though and it was spot on — even

Kindest regards
Christine

]]> By: Premasagar http://findingada.com/2009/01/so-who-wants-to-do-a-nice-shiny-mash-up/comment-page-1/#comment-96 Premasagar Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:50:04 +0000 http://findingada.com/blog/2009/01/21/so-who-wants-to-do-a-nice-shiny-mash-up/#comment-96 Great stuff. Nice piping! Great stuff. Nice piping!

]]> By: Tony Kennick http://findingada.com/2009/01/so-who-wants-to-do-a-nice-shiny-mash-up/comment-page-1/#comment-87 Tony Kennick Sun, 25 Jan 2009 09:44:01 +0000 http://findingada.com/blog/2009/01/21/so-who-wants-to-do-a-nice-shiny-mash-up/#comment-87 It is currently alapetical by subject, but again that can be easily changed. It is currently alapetical by subject, but again that can be easily changed.

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