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• Using Live Maps to Show Beijing 2008 Medals Distribution by Contry

  I've was looking for an interesting project to get my hands on live maps API. Just to get the hang of developing cool application on top of Live maps. I've started this Olympics Medal Count + Community Contributed Data + Live Maps Mashup And It's almost... Posted Aug 23 2008, 11:36 PM by zroiy with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: General Software Development, Beijing, Olympic Games, Medals Count, Countries GPS, Community, Beijing 2008, Live Maps

• Engineering Failures, Bad Engineering or No Engineering at all

  Here are a few examples that you can probably relate to as an analogy to your latest Software Development Project     Posted Aug 18 2008, 12:45 AM by zroiy with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: General Software Development, Engineering, Bad Engineering, Engineering Failures

• Mapping the world - Community Style.

  I had an idea for a cool mashup that included a map , countries coordinates and another secret ingredient.  But to my surprise, I couldn't find a free Country to  gps coordinates Database. which means that even though Columbus discovered America... Posted Aug 14 2008, 11:17 PM by zroiy with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: open source, Geotagging, General Software Development, coordinates, Countries GPS, Creative Commons, Community, GEO Database

• GPS Coordinates in JPEG C# Example - Looks like there is a western side to the world as well

  In one of my previous posts , I provided an example of embedding GPS coordinates into a JPEG image. I had a bug!. It only took care of the eastern side of the world. A comment by John about not working with negative longitude numbers identified the issue... Posted Aug 10 2008, 09:09 PM by zroiy with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: c#, .NET, class libraries, Geotagging, GPS, JPEG, General Software Development, EXIF, coordinates

• Beijing 2008 IT

  I hope the title of this post is not too much misleading, by IT I don't mean to talk about which brand of CPUs is being used to host the official games website, or which Imaging technology is being used by which vendor . By IT I mean that... Posted Aug 08 2008, 12:09 AM by zroiy with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: 2008, RSS, videocasts, youtube, General Software Development, Usability, Olympics, Beijing, Olympic, Web Design, sports

• Making your site more RSS browsers friendly

  Both IE7 and Firefox 3 are embedded RSS on page aware, meaning that in order to improve user usability they provide a one click RSS subscribe button. Here is how it looks like : IE7 when enabled (from cnn.com) Firfox enabled IE7 not enabled (from... Posted Aug 06 2008, 06:14 PM by zroiy with | with no comments Filed under: RSS, General Software Development, IE7, Firefox3, Usability, ASP.Net, Feed

• Hacking 101

  Not so much software related , but something to keep in mind when designing user interfaces aimed for security purposes. From the following picture, guess which buttons are being used for typing in the parking lot gate code ...   BTW, this is a real... Posted Jul 27 2008, 12:17 PM by zroiy with | with no comments Filed under: General Software Development, Security, Hacking, USer Interface

• An informative GeoTagging Getting-started Article

  A friend at work , sent me this well documented and informative article on geotagging . He got the feeling I was hooked onto this technology after I nagged him about whether his Nokia N95 can take pictures with embedded GPS coordinates (No it can't if... Posted Jul 15 2008, 11:58 PM by zroiy with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Geotagging, GPS, General Software Development, Digital Photography

• A 16 minutes video on YouTube's infrastructure.

  http://blip.tv/file/1069718/ - ~16 minutes. (Poor sound quality) Mostly rely on open source software (MySQL, Apache, etc) and developing their applications with python. Nice bit about tracing an error that brought down their systems down to a simple riser... Posted Jul 13 2008, 01:19 PM by zroiy with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: youtube, infrastructure, General Software Development, Content Management Server, scale