Posts describing software I’ve written.
I recently launched several major new features for Curvature, my program that generates maps of the twistiest roads world-wide. I’ve had these in the works for several years and finally found the time to wrap them up.
Drupal 8 has a great Plugin API that not only allows one to write plugins that modify Drupal core’s behavior, but also to define your own pluggable system that you and others can plug into as well. The Plugin API documentation has a number of examples that cover many common…
Several years after creating Curvature –my program that analyzes road-geometry and builds maps of twisty roads– it now has a dedicated site of its own: roadcurvature.com The new site is written to help non-techies understand how to use the curvature files with step-by-step instructions and a lot less jargon than…
Update October, 2020: Curvature is now available as an in-browser map. Update November, 2016: New dedicated Curvature site — roadcurvature.com Update October, 2013: Google Earth KML files generated by curvature.py are now available covering the entire world. In the process of taking up motorcycling this summer I also gained an…
The RiverLevels widget provides an easy way to monitor the amount of water flowing in your favorite streams and rivers right from your Dashboard. The RiverLevels widget is of particular interest to whitewater kayakers and canoeists. Once any United States Geological Survey (USGS) stream-gauge station is selected, it is automatically…
For the past 6 months our Web Application Development work-group has been Bugzilla as our issue tracker with quite a bit of success. While it has its warts, Bugzilla seems like a pretty decent issue-tracking system and is flexible enough to fit into a variety of different work-flows. One very…
I have been using Twitter as a log of my daily doings and wished to export my time-line for reformatting into a calender format. Unfortunately TweetDumpr just retrieves the list of Tweets using a single fetch request which is limited by the Twitter API to a maximum of 200 Tweets….
A new version (1.2.2) is available that fixes issues with image URLs This version is a re-release of version 1.2 which had a corrupted archive missing some necessary files. The RiverLevels widget provides an easy way to monitor the amount of water flowing in your favorite streams and rivers right…
Update: A new version is available that fixes a corrupted archive in version 1.2. The RiverLevels widget provides an easy way to monitor the amount of water flowing in your favorite streams and rivers right from your Dashboard. The RiverLevels widget is of particular interest to whitewater kayakers and canoeists….
I’ve recently developed a small PHP script, the WPEnclosureAdder (source | try) that goes through each item in an RSS feed, looks for links to YouTube videos or GoogleVideo videos, and then adds an enclosure tags for the videos. If multiple videos are found embedded in a post, then that…
