Povo World: Tag "technical" on Povo Staff http://www.povo.com/Zine:Povo_Staff?search&radius=Page&kind=All&tags=technical The Povo Community This atom feed represents a search around a location in Povo http://static.povo.com/img/logos/povo32.png http://static.povo.com/img/logos/povo_text.png Portions Creative Commons Licensed via cc-by-sa-3.0. Terms of use: http://world.povo.com/Povo:Terms%20of%20Use. Geographic location data is NOT Creative Commons, but copyright TeleAtlas. 2008-12-05T20:35:34.7670000 Complicated C# Generics http://www.povo.com/Zine:Povo_Staff?section=Complicated_C%23_Generics 2008-12-05T15:35:34.7670000-05:00 2008-12-05T15:35:34.7670000-05:00
technical, c#
We've been giving some thought to reworking some low level layers of Povo's wiki rendering system. Along the way we ran up against an impressively difficult problem in converting some "weakly typed" classes to C# generics. A more full writeup is here, including links to help you tell us why we're missing the easy answer. (ahem.)
ExtJS Library http://www.povo.com/Zine:Povo_Staff?section=ExtJS_Library 2008-12-05T15:35:34.7670000-05:00 2008-12-05T15:35:34.7670000-05:00
technical, javascript, ExtJS
We use the excellent Ext JS library for the fancier bits of our user interface. We wrote an article about our modifications which you can read here.
iPhone Application http://www.povo.com/Zine:Povo_Staff?section=iPhone_Application 2008-12-05T20:35:34.7670000 2008-12-05T20:35:34.7670000
technical, iPhone, qr codes
We've been furiously developing "real" applications for the iPhone. We were happy to hear the announcement of a formal SDK, but we're not waiting until January. We have three application bits at the moment:
  1. The main "Povo Client"
  2. A Mobile Safari Plugin to allow any web application to get GPS information (with user permission of course)
  3. A iPhone QR Codes (Wassat now?) decoder application, allowing you to use the camera to get bookmarks, contact info, etc.
Using GeckoFX, Firefox and Javascript for Screen Scraping http://www.povo.com/Zine:Povo_Staff?section=Using_GeckoFX%2c_Firefox_and_Javascript_for_Screen_Scraping 2008-12-05T15:35:34.7670000-05:00 2008-12-05T15:35:34.7670000-05:00
technical, javascript, c#
Sometimes we find a public data source, like the list of Boston Parks on cityofboston.gov that we'd like to have in Povo. There are some good tools out there for doing this, such as OpenKapow which present graphical interfaces for defining your "crawler." But I wanted something a little more generic. An account of my insanity, and ultimately success is described in detail on the GeckoFX Javascript Engine page.