November 30, 2005
Randy's been a bad, bad boy...
Yes I know it's been forever since I last posted. About 7 weeks ago to be exact ! I bet you thought some nasty computer virus had killed me didn't you? LOL
I apologize, but I've been incredibly busy for the last couple of months. Between projects I already had running, a couple of new ones I have in process and the beginning of the Holiday shopping season there just are not enough hours in the day. In fact, I was only here tonight to clean out all of those spammy comments that seem to pile up in the blog. You know... The ones you never see because I restrict them to require approval.
Anyway, it'll be another few weeks yet before things in my Life slow down enough to get back to regular posting and development of more tools. Actually, I already have one sort of neat tool that uses the Yahoo! Maps API that I cobbled together in a couple of hours a few weeks ago. Believe it or not, I coded it on the laptop without any glaring errors while I wasn't even home! ;-)
It's called Qwerty Map Ver. 1
It came into being because Torka from Jill's forums wanted to find a way to use Yahoo Maps as a sort of Company Locator type of thing. But wanted to be able to customize the details that show up in the little balloon.
The current version allows just a single location and will spit out all of the code you need to make the map appear on your web site. The next version will have the ability to change more things without having to touch the code (the initial Zoom level of the map for one) and also the ability to create pointer balloons for multiple locations.
I think I have a pretty good idea for monetizing something like this. But it's going to take some development time, which is something I just don't have right now! Maybe next year... ROFL
Toodles for now! Gotta get back to the email that's come in this evening and then head off to bed so that I can get a few hours of sleep before it all starts again before the sun rises tomorrow.