OAuth & Changing Passwords

Valid point by Brent Simmons: When Twitter was recently hacked, I was among those who got an email saying I was affected. So I changed my password. But here’s what I’ve noticed: changing my password does not cause any of the Twitter clients on my iPhone to ask me again for authentication. They just keep …

Google Maps v3 Move Polygon

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 …

Mercator Puzzle Redux

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 …

Google Maps v3 Drag Polygon

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 …