Monthly Archives: November 2008

• Ultimate Site Logo 2 – For real this time November 21st, 2008

  After writing my first article on the subject, Ultimate Site Logo, I’ve come up with two significant enhancements.. With the original solution, there were two major flaws. The first one was a semantic one and the other one a more … Continue reading →

• Spotify is right on the spot November 19th, 2008

  I’ve been using the beta web service Spotify for a couple of months now. And I must say that I’m really impressed. I would almost go as far as to say it’s the best piece of software I have ever … Continue reading →

• Populating Google Maps with Microformats revisited November 16th, 2008

  A few month ago I posted about a demo where I used content marked up with Microformats to populate a Google map using Javascript. Well, now I’ve improved that demo somewhat.

• Report from World Usability Day November 14th, 2008

  On World Usability Day on 13 of November we gathered a bunch of people to put focus on usability. The event which we called A nice cup of coffee on Usability Day, was held at my former employer, Visma Spcs … Continue reading →

• A Nice Cup of Coffe on Usability Day November 10th, 2008

  This Thursday (November 13) is World Usability Day. It’s an event that takes place at different locations around the globe each year to put the spotlight on usability in our daily lives. Here in Växjö, Sweden we’re going to celebrate … Continue reading →

• Polylines in Google Maps [Part 2] November 6th, 2008

  In part 1 I showed how to use and optimize performance on polylines in Google Maps using Javascript. In this article I will show you how to get even better performance by encoding the polylines on the server.

• Shopping for groceries in style November 5th, 2008

  Conchango is developing a shopping system for the British grocery store Tesco. It’s supposed to help customers when buying/ordering food and has a graphically rich interface. I’m for one hate shopping for groceries. If I could have a system like … Continue reading →

• Bounding Box in Google Maps November 2nd, 2008

  Normally when you initialize a new Google map you set the coordinates for the center of the map and manually specifies the initial zoom level. Sometimes, however, there’s a need to dynamically calculate the center point and zoom level for … Continue reading →