Category Archives: Development

Google plusone button hides tweet button

I was slightly frustrated when I tried to add the google plusone button to www.fishblab.com. When I added it in my development environment the google plusone button would completely mask the tweet button. So there were actually 2 google plus … Continue reading

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Fish Catch, Reports, Spots added to photo section

The http://photo.fishblab.com section has been improved. Fishing Catch Reports have been added. This is a log of each species of fish caught – which can be multiple if needed. For each species the name, weight and length are needed. The … Continue reading

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Problems using YUI Panel

I use quite a few YUI panel objects as inline popups used for gathering and displaying information. Using the modal dialog option caused an IE error message: ‘A script on this page is causing Internet Explorer to run slowly …’ … Continue reading

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Strange server errors posting an Ajax form

I just wrestled with getting a form to post via ajax. I have done this before but had a bunch of issues crop up this time including strange intermitten server errors that only seemed to occur on Firefox. I resolved it by … Continue reading

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Geocoding solution

My Geocoding experience with Google and Yahoo became increasingly difficult and lengthy until I finally went looking for another solution. I found that solution with the Perl Module Geo::Coder::US. My final solution utilized Geo::Coder::US for most of the geocoding with Google … Continue reading

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Download continued

I have been doing continued refinement on the reil rets download.  I decided to structure the download so that each ‘Class’ (residential, condo,etc) is downloaded into a separate table -as is. After the download is complete I run updates every … Continue reading

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Download REIL Property data from scratch

My first activity was to download the property data. REIL has a bunch of property ‘classes’ such as RES (residential) and CON (Condominium). The classes will need to go into separate tables. So I designed my download process to take … Continue reading

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Downloading REIL Data myself!

So, this is where I have ended up, writing the REIL data download from scratch. I am using Perl and imagine it would be difficult using something else. I want to be able to have one set of routines to … Continue reading

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MRIS Conduit

MRIS Conduit is another free client for downloading data. In contrast to every other client I tried, MRIS Conduit was super simple, intuitive and worked the first time and every time. It downloads data to text/xml files and will also … Continue reading

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Using VieleRETS to download data

I spent a long time messing with VieleRETS to try and download data from REIL. The short answer is that I failed to get it to work. I tried to debug the PHP code but was unable to identify why … Continue reading

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