There is a plugin out there called XML-Google Maps WordPress Plugin (probably rolls of the tongue better in the native German). It works but boy is it a struggle.

I would like to show a map just from a link to a google map but I could not get this to work. After installing the plugin you really need a gpx file to make a map display. To get a GPX file you need to get the GMap to GPX javascript doodad. Follow the instructions on this page to make a link in your favorites to the javascript that makes the GPX file for you. When you are viewing a google map and click this thing you get an xml file you can copy / paste into a file. Then in your WordPress post simply link to this file.

Its hard. Its clunky. I probably don’t really understand how to do this right but I’m trying to do this quick and dirty. If anyone has any advice please send it along!

I made it to Redwood City, CA today, just after dark. What a long trip! Over 4,000 miles in total over the last two weeks.

Sorry but I’ve been slacking on my posting. Seems I’ve been having too much fun and too little internet connection to make any updates. They are coming soon I promise! Pictures of the Grand Canyon, desert camping outside Vegas and Death Valley. We were very much “off the grid” the last few days of the trip, camping for free in national parks and forests.

Summer took this picture of a deer at Palo Duro State Park in TX. Amazing detail!

Here is (the beginnings of) blogs about Symfony:

http://symfonyandy.wordpress.com/

(not maintained in a while but it saved my butt once already)

http://anywindowwithahammer.wordpress.com/

I am using jeditable which uses the jquery library to do inline editing of text on a page. However there was no way to set the maximum length of the field. I wanted to set the max length dynamically so if we changed the database definition and the model in Symfony we would not have to adjust the code.

First of all the docs on jeditable are here: http://www.appelsiini.net/projects/jeditable
look at the modification mentioned about maxlength

If you have a single line of a result set, in this case $action you do:
$column_def = $action->getTable()->getColumnDefinition('action_desc');
to get the action_desc column definition.

Then do:
$column_def['length'] gives you the length of the column.

If you need it on a table basis instead of individual row (which frankly makes a lot more sense) do:

$column_def = new sfDoctrineColumn('action_desc',Doctrine_Core::getTable('Action'));
$this->desc_field_length = $column_def->getSize();


I’ve recently had to become more familiar with how to scale up a website to take more traffic and have some redundancy.  I hadn’t touched this since my Classroom Connect days, and it was a disaster back then.  So back to school I go…This book seems like an excellent way to learn webserver load balancing and scaling of web applications:Can’t wait to get my copy!

Doing this procedure makes me so nervous.  One slip or broken connector and the laptop could be toast.  But this article really helped: http://www.insidemylaptop.com/take-apart-hp-pavilion-dv5000-remove-system-board/