MovieLandmarks

Adding Movies works!

admin — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:44:19 +0000

I have slowly been making progress on the new site at http://movielandmarks.appspot.com, I now have the movie add code working, the picker searches amazon.com for matches and displays their covers for you to pick from.

Next up is getting the add media dialog created. I think I’m going to use the http://www.oembed.com APIs from Youtube, Hulu, Flickr, etc. to manage adding the embedded media. It looks like a good standard, and it can return json, making it alot easier to parse the results.

Moving to Google AppEngine

admin — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:58:34 +0000

I’ve decided to rewrite the back-end of MovieLandmarks in Python and move it over to Google’s AppEngine. This should allow me to focus on developing features for the site without having to worry (too much) about scalability and reliability of the servers it is running on.

I have plans to re-activate user submissions for content, as well as extensive use of jQuery for the User Interface dialogs. The basic clean design will remain the same, with dialogs being used for adding and editing the content of the site.

The landmark clustering will also be rewritten from scratch in Python, with the goal to improve its speed and my understanding of how it actually works. I will be blogging about this as I work through it since Google Map object clustering seems to be a subject that alot of people are interested in.

Adding jQuery

admin — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:16:05 +0000

I’ve started adding jquery to the development version. I’ll be using it for UI elements and themes.

Fixed a Bug for IE7

admin — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 07:07:14 +0000

I had an undeclared map variable which caused IE7 to choke with a cryptic error message. Seems to be fixed now, but you really should use Firefox or Chrome instead of IE.

MovieLandmarks Updates for January 30, 2009

admin — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 04:15:48 +0000

I’ve been working on some improvements to the site the last few days. The default display mode is now just maps instead of satellite — it loads faster and you can always switch. Eventually there will be a cookie to remember user prefrences.

I’ve fixed the URLs so that you can email links to your favorite movies (Blues Brothers) and landmarks (Bridge Jump). This makes it alot easier to share things with your friends.

I’ve moved the blog from blogspot to a wordpress blog. I forgot the login and google changes things around and its just easier to start over. I’ll copy the old posts over sometime this weekend.