A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
In a recent project I needed to permanently run a PHP CLI script; it needed to run as a service/daemon. A few Google search coupons later I got my answer: use start-stop-daemon to make it work. To not manually type in those lengthy commands it’s possible to wrap these in a handy little script, as …
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Five days after the previous update PS_BRAMUS.GoogleMapsTileCutter — a Photoshop Script which automatically chops up a large image into tiles for use with Google Maps — has been updated again. With this new version one can now choose to place all tiles into one and the same folder (as it was before), or use subfolders …
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It’s been 1.5 years already since I created PS_BRAMUS.GoogleMapsTileCutter, a Photoshop Script which automatically chops up a large image into tiles for use with Google Maps. Today a huge update was released. Sparked by an initial pull request by Nick Springer, PS_BRAMUS.GoogleMapsTileCutter now sports a UI dialog in which you can set the options before …
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It’s been 4 months since I released bramus/router, the lightweight and object oriented PHP Router I wrote. Since then a few new features worth mentioning were added. Subrouting Support It’s now possible to mount several routes onto a base route. Think of creating a /movies route on which you attach a callable which in its …
For one of the courses I teach I was in need of a PHP Router. Having explored the available routers out there I found they either were: Outdated Not object oriented(sorry Klein (which has been updated by now, but wasn’t at the time)) Rather bad at the separation of concerns(sorry Ham & Klein; a router …
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Most of the time Finder will show you multiple entries for each application when right clicking a file and choosing Open With. Getting rid of Open With duplicates gives us an alias to remove those duplicates. Below is not only the alias, but a one-line command to add the alias to your ~/.bash_profile. Just copy …
UPDATE 2018.03.07: The issue requesting to have this in the core of Google Maps got marked as fixed … unfortunately I cannot find this change back in the documentation, so I’m not too sure if it’s actually fixed or not. Will keep tracking it. Since Google Maps v3.11 (*) it’s possible to move around a …
The aforementioned Mercator Puzzle is quite nice, but it’s static: you always get presented the same 15 countries at the same 15 starting positions. To counter that, I decided to make the thing dynamic: you get to place 15 countries chosen from a set of 178 in total. If you don’t know the anwser, just …
It’s really not that hard. No need for one of the many diy scripts; just set the draggable property on your instance of google.maps.Polygon and you’re good to go. Note: draggable was introduced in Google Maps v3.11 (dd 22 January 2013). The current stable version of Google Maps still is 3.10 however. For now (until …