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New Projects for 2009 with News Statistics and Analysis

In January we re-launched an old website of ours into our big new project for 2009 and beyond.  Something we're very excited about and something I've been working on very hard over the past few months.  The new site is based on some concepts of the new and expanding semantic web.  Where more and more content is being put on the web in machine readable (rather than human readable) formats.  This means that higher levels of analysis and content interconnections can be discovered by content...

Travelling again...

Well after two years in The Gambia I have left.  Melanie and I have started travelling from The Gambia across west africa. A trip we have had planned for quite a long time.  When I was back in North America last summer we were beginning preparations and now we have commenced the journey by car in our white van.  Now we find ourselves 3 weeks in and already three countries deep.  Mela is updating her website a lot more than I am, but unfortunately you will find much of it is in German... not...

Chaos in the Morning

Sometimes strange things happen around here.  Even before we manage our coffee in the morning.  The other day we woke up to the dogs barking and discovered they had somehow caught a Drimmo, which is a giant Gambian rat up in a tree.   We took some video footage of us trying to get it out of the tree and the resulting disaster when it jumped out.  Warning, this video is not for the weak at heart. 

Create Your Own Website with Geographical Media

UPDATE: Our product was renamed to Lara and is available here:  http://getlara.com Well, after 16 months of development I am very proud to annouce that our software product .geographical media is finally availabled to everyone via our website at http://geographicalmedia.org.  I hope everyone who visits my website will take the time to try out of software.  Its free and makes a great blogging platform.  If you are thinking of starting a blog or you or your company needs a website please try us...

Ultimate Frisbee in Gambia

Yes, Ultimate Frisbee is played in The Gambia.  For anyone who may be travelling to The Gambia, or passing through there is a regular pickup game which occurs on Mondays and Thursdays at 5:45 pm at The Medical Research Center (MRC), ask any taxi for directions.  If you are interested to play feel free to just drop by, or if you want to confirm feel free to drop me a note by posting a comment on this post or send me a mail through my contact box. The game has been running since Spring 2007 for...

One of the reasons I live in The Gambia

This is a screenshot from my desktop... Sorry guys, but maybe this will solve that beetle problem you have going. BTW, my desktop background is from http://www.webdesignerwall.com .  I am a big fan of his work.

Converting to SQLite and LIKE Query Optimization

I recently converted our web application .geographical media to use SQLite as its primary database (relegating SqlExpress to the backup position).  This posed some interesting challenges but overall I was very pleased with the result.  As they say on their website sqlite  is small, fast and reliable.  For us, the major reason for change was to reduce load on our hosting servers enabling us to put many more websites on a single server.  Our product is built with .NET and we...

Internet Explorer CSS File Size Limit

Today I encountered a problem where in IE7 and IE6 it appeared as if some parts of my CSS style was not loading.  I tracked the problem down to what appears to be a file size limit of ~288kb for .css files.  In IE only the first 288kb in a file will be read and processed.  Any CSS after 288kb will be ignored.  In this particular case I was loaded a CSS file of 347kb.  Firefox does not seem to have a limit.  The limit appears to be a "per file" limit.  You can split the CSS into two...

Javascript Transition Effects

Here are some samples of some basic javascript transition effects.  We are thinking about putting some of these nifty effects into certain areas of .geographical media.  It seems to be rather trendy these days to do so.  I have created the following effects: Fade In, Fade Out, Fly Out and Drop Out, Drop Back The effects are all very easy to do with Javascript adjusting the style properties of the object you wish to have the effect on.  I found the opacity properties here at quirksmode  ...

What am I up to?

So if you have been wondering what I have been up to the past couple of years, here's a quick update.  Basically, I've been living in The Gambia, West Africa, where I started a company building web publishing software.  Thus all the postings about "new version released" and so on.  The Gambia  is a warm little country and I live with my girl friend/business partner Melanie Radtke. She's a gem and one of the main reasons I am here.  We've been working at our little company with the help of some...