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Mar 13 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | Add a Comment
John Resig hosted a panel discussion on the "Secrets of JavaScript Libraries" yesterday. The slides are here and the original post is on John's blog at http://ejohn.org/blog/secrets-of-javascript-libraries-sxsw/.
Feb 22 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | 5 comments
Notes and links from last night's presentation on web mapping and the Google Maps API to the New York Web Standards Meetup Group. Thanks to everyone who made it!
Please contact us if you'd like to present at the March or April meetup.
We'll discuss best practices, our favorite mashups, and what makes the good ones so good. We’d also like to see if anyone in the group has any experience with the Mapstraction library.
Last month we talked a little bit about web mapping in general and ran through a Google Maps tutorial. All of the materials from last month's meetup are available on our website, including a podcast of the presentation.
Any questions about developing Google Maps? Any observations?
Has anyone here worked with Yahoo! Maps, Live Earth, or MapQuest? If so, what do you think?
I remember that Marco was very concerned about the fact that Google is a corporation last month, but OpenLayers is an open source solution.
I briefly worked with MapQuest in 2006, prior to driving directions in Google Maps, but I found it kind of a pain and would stick with Google—their API is faster, cuter, and easier
When initially working with the the MapQuest OpenAPI, I had a lot of difficulty getting the map to render correctly. The culprit turned out to be the DOCTYPE directive! Remove it if you want your map to display at all in Firefox and correctly in IE. Not sure if this is still true.
What are the best practices when doing a mashup? Is it using abstraction layers? What makes a good UI? What are people’s favorite mashups and why? What makes a good one so good?
Google has a New Year's Resolution to help produce more usable maps.
Vincent Lim sent this one: http://www.onnyturf.com/subway/. Custom tiles. Stemless markers.
From Dominic Espinosa: Stamen Design: Oakland Crimespotting
They also released an open source interaction library called Modest Maps for displaying tile-based maps like Google's in Flash.
Mapstraction—Client-side abstraction layer
Jan 25 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | Add a Comment
Below are links to materials from last night's presentation on the Google Maps API to the New York Web Standards Meetup Group. Thanks to everyone who made it—there were a lot of great questions and input.
Rashmi, here's the link I promised: Sasha Maps—A Google Web Toolkit-based library that provides functionality similar to the Google Maps API. I've never used it, because I don't know Java.
Next month will be less of a presentation and more of a roundtable as we continue our web mapping discussion. While the focus will remain on Google Maps, we'll also talk about alternatives, both commercial and open source. Other topics include: best practices, our favorite mashups, and what makes the good ones so good.
Please send the URLs of your favorite mashups, any development questions, and any tutorial requests to Jeffrey prior to part two. Thanks!
Please contact us if you'd like to present at the March or April meetup.
Jul 23 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | Add a Comment
The New York Web Standards Meetup Group will be meeting at theMechanism on 26 July 2007 at 6:30 pm to discuss Ajax and forms.
Did you miss Ajax and Forms a few months ago? Here is an opportunity to catch up and see what we’ve been cooking up. Jeffrey Barke will review cool features, scripts and general visual goodness at theMechanism's office.
After the talk, we will open the floor to a monthly design critique. We encourage attendees to bring current or past projects they feel comfortable showing to get collective input from the group, as well as discuss topics and desired presenters for future Web Standards meetings.
There is no fee—and beverages as usual—will be provided. RSVP now!
26 July 2007 . 6:30 pm
theMechanism|eEmerge
440 9th Avenue 8th Floor
New York, NY 10001 [map]
Please contact us if you’d like to present at the August or September meetup.
Mar 27 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | 1 Comment
These are the notes to my recent presentation on AJAX and forms to the New York Web Standards Meetup Group. These notes were purposefully left open and vague to facilitate discussion based on attendees’ interests—during the presentation a lot of good questions were asked. That dialogue is not represented here.
Hello, my name is Jeffrey Barke. I’m the Senior Developer and Information Architect for the US office of theMechanism and I plan on talking briefly about how to easily use AJAX to improve the usability of forms and admin/control panel interfaces.
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