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Biking DC Mashup

Monday, November 24th, 2008

DC’s bike lanes and routes drawn on a Google Map.

BikingDC Google Map MashupInspired by the Apps for Democracy contest which encouraged developers to build useful applications from DC’s Data Catalog, I built a Google Maps mashup which displays bike lanes and signed bike routes. Use the map as a starting to point to plan your ride through the city.

View the Biking DC Map
Google Map

Tech Notes

The ‘Bicycle Lane‘ and ‘Signed Bike Route‘ KMZ files from the DC Data Catalog are used. Data is pulled daily. Before displaying, the files are filtered to display only existing bike lanes.

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Lightbox 2.03 released

Monday, April 16th, 2007

A minor update with a couple of bug fixes, a handful of tweaks, and some small niceties added.

After much delay comes the new update. I’m not extending the functionality at this point but making some tweaks and fixing some of the small bugs. You can grab it from the main page: Lightbox JS v2.03

  • Object and Embed elements hidden on Lightbox activation, prevents Flash movies and other media from appearing through Lightbox image
  • extended keyboard support (arrow keys, esc key)
  • added toggle in Javascript file to turn off animations
  • imagemap support
  • valid CSS
  • clicking anywhere in ’shadow’ closes Lightbox
  • removeDuplicates function works with incontiguous items
  • a bit of code cleanup

Like I said, minor stuff.

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Messageboard

Friday, May 19th, 2006

634 comments into the game, a new forum is up for discussing modifications, features, troubleshooting, etc. related to the Lightbox scripts. You can find it here: Huddletogether.com Forum

Better late then never? The forum is run with Vanilla, a web forum created by the team over at Lussumo.

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Lightbox JS v2.0

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

Lightbox JS v2.0 – Go check it out!

Use the comments on this entry to post and discuss bugs, questions, and troubleshoot the script. I’ll be in and out of here.

3/31/06: I’ve Released a minor update v2.01 that fixes IE6 centering and smooths out the kinks in the resize transition. If you’re looking for multi-line captions or keyboard navigation, expect another minor update this weekend.

4/4/06: New update v2.02 that keeps the layout in check when captions extend to multiple lines. Keyboard navigation has also been enabled. Lastly, the addition of a variable in the lightbox.js configuration section to control the speed of the resize transitions.

Posted in Development, Lightbox | 910 Comments »

Squeaky Clean CSS

Thursday, February 16th, 2006

I thought I’d share a little bit of what I’ve learned from noodling around with stylesheets these past few years. Here are some basic organizational practices I try to follow. ( Much of this might be old hat for you, and if so, just think of it as a refresher. I run into enough messy stylesheets that I thought this might be of some interest. )

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Lightbox != Lightshow

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

Lightshow JS script is still in the works, just taking a bit longer then expected. It is similar to the Lightbox JS script with a few bonus features helpful for viewing photos in ’sets.’ More details to come. For now I’d recommend you browse the recent comments and take a look at others who have extended the script with ‘gallery’ functionality.

Question: Anyone have an idea why my RSS feed appears ‘broken’ at the moment? I’m using Wordpress 1.5. hmm…

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Lightbox JS – update

Tuesday, January 10th, 2006

Now with captions! I’ve also fixed a couple of minor issues involving extra-large images falling out of the viewport and a small gap in the overlay in Firefox. Also, it’s more keyboard friendly now. Thanks for all the comments and suggestions.

Grab the latest files here: Lightbox JS

Just a teaser, but per many requests for extended functionality, I am working on a complimentary ‘photo-gallery’ script. It will include forward/back navigation, preloading, and much more. Check back next week.

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Lightbox JS

Monday, January 2nd, 2006

I wrote a simple script for bloggers and other friendly folk to overlay images on their site called Lightbox JS. I’ve recieved lots of nice words and feedback, all of which is soaked up and appreciated.

Posted in Lightbox | 243 Comments »