After lots of inactivity I finally got a first working version of new throwless site up and ready for testing.
http://homemap.com.au/throwless-0.4-SNAPSHOT/
Main features are:
You can upload pictures of the item
Each item has location that is displayed on map
Searching results are updated when you drag map around
If testing will go fine, I will soon upload this [...]
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throwless-0.4-SNAPSHOT
Posted in Uncategorized on March 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Zeitgeist
Posted in Uncategorized on March 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Let’s assume all the conspiracies are real. Let’s assume it’s all true and there are people behind the scenes that pull the strings. Let’s assume one day someone will get 100% control of every human in the world. You know, something similar to Matrix style.
What will happen after?
Syntetic life
Posted in Uncategorized on March 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“We have a software for designing species on the computer – We don’t know what they look like, we know their genetic code.”
“We just try millions of combinations of chromosomes and wait which ones work”
Pretty scarry, huh?
What can come up out of this?
Zoom level: Finding the right one
Posted in Development, Uncategorized, tagged accuracy, google, map, range, zoom on March 6, 2008 | 3 Comments »
In previous post I came up with formula on how to calculate zoom level using “range” information in KML. To get the formula I compared zoom levels in maps.google.com with views from google earth.
I opened google map page, resized my windows so the map size was 500×500 and set zoom level to maximum – [...]
GMap geocoding – zoom level and accuracy
Posted in Uncategorized on February 23, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Problem:
Google maps geocoder can return coordinates, accuracy and range for given location. However, how to display location on the map, you need to center the map and set the zoom level. My problem was to find right zoom level for given location.
I found one blog post that describes the solution but I wasn’t very happy [...]
Throwless API
Posted in Uncategorized on September 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Rewriting Throwless.com – first thing first… hmm actually which thing should be first?
One site I did I started with back-end, another one with front-end.
This time I will start with API. I hope to implement back-end of the API by the end of this week. Next week I can start working on the user interface.
I am back
Posted in Uncategorized on August 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Hola hou everybody, I am back in Sydney!
I had a nice time in a Europe and I got married. Right now I am working on my resume and looking for a job, but you can expect soon some new developments on the site.
My plan is to quickly change implementation to Java (I tried Ruby [...]
Concerns from Freecycle
Posted in Uncategorized on July 8, 2007 | 15 Comments »
I noticed there were some concerns about ThrowLess circulating in the east Sydney freecycle mail group. I have emailed the reply to the mail list. I am also posting it here in case it does not reach freecycle users.
Hello everyone,
My name is Anatoli and I am one of the creators of www.throwless.com.
I am writing to [...]
It’s all about…
Posted in Uncategorized on June 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
location! location! location! … Oops, this is not real estate site…
I mean – It’s all about users, users and users. Internet sites these days get its value from the users and their contributions. We understand that and that’s why we have our community section, based on wiki pages.
For those who doesn’t know what Wiki is, [...]
ThrowLess and City Councils
Posted in Uncategorized on June 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I got a great idea from my sister. She said that we need to let city councils know about ThrowLess because it might save them money. Every now and again (usually twice a year), councils run a cleanup day. On this day everyone who has large items to throw away take them outside of a [...]
