I am aware that I have not written anything since February, but the longer I go, the more I feel that I need to return with a bang. But I have no bang for you, only a vague promise that I’ll redesign and update soon. But for now, I want to plug Image Shackle, a […]

Well, EarthCache was fun and useful while it lasted, but Groundspeak, the owners of geocaching.com have put an end to it. On September 9th, I received an e-mail from them asking me to remove the service. My server has since been blocked from making any requests to their site.
Since I use this server as a […]

Since PHP is the primary language I use, I’m most familiar with all of it’s wonderful built-in functions, like ucwords(). I’ve used various code for a Javascript equivalent, and everytime I wind up with about 20 lines to do one simple thing. But I pieced this together from several sources today:

String.prototype.toProperCase = function(){
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(See my first entry for background information on EarthCache)
If you hadn’t noticed, EarthCache is working again. Apparently the block was an automated process, which has been lifted, and things seem to be running smoothly now that I’ve implemented a caching mechanism. I had hoped to pull in some additional information from Geocaching.com, like cache size […]

To end my procrastination of making a first post, I figured I needed something to break into the prestigious web development community with a bang. As a Windows user, I’ve had a head start on a lot of other developers with Google Earth (They say Mac support is soon). I’m not going to bother summarizing […]