Tom Morris



2008.04.24

Geo blog post 2008-04-24T14:19:54ZTitled entry permalink

I now have FireEagle built into my blogging software. Pretty cool, no? I'm working on building it so that my blog posts will have my geographical location built in (if I'm not at home, that is). This is a sample post just to test the storage of this information. I'm not actually in Paris (although it'd be jolly nice if I was).

Once again with the renegade master 2008-04-24T14:25:55ZTitled entry permalink

Almost works. Made a silly mistake (one of those not reading the documentation mistakes).

Paris, France

Co-ordinates test 2008-04-24T14:38:35ZTitled entry permalink

I'm still not in Paris, but I am pretending to my software to be so. If it all works, we should be able to get the website and the feed pushing out my geolocation in no time at all.

Paris, France

FireEagle: it knows where I blog 2008-04-24T15:43:41ZTitled entry permalink

Today, I've been working on hooking up Fire Eagle to my blog. I've got it doing some fairly smart things. First of all, when I post on my blog, I now have a 'Location' field in the form so that I can bash in a new location. This is just simple HTML with a bit of PHP back-end to handle updating Fire Eagle with my new location. Fire Eagle is one of those fantastic things that gets better the more you use it. And having it in my blogging software means I end up using it all over the place.

But there's more. When I post to my blog - whether it's through the web-based interface, or through an XML-RPC client, my server will ask Fire Eagle where I am. If I'm not at home, it stores the name, latitude and longitude of where I am in the XML files that holds my blog content (SQL? Pfft!). This is then published on my blog in the geo microformat. It looks ugly at the moment, but this evening I'll be tidying up the stylesheet. I'll also be adding it to the RSS 2.0 feed I publish (yes, I use RSS 2.0 not Atom, because Atom requires that posts have titles - and, as Twitter proves, not all posts have titles) using GeoRSS.

Does your blog know where you are?

 

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Tom Morris
Currently in: East Sussex, England
Usually in: East Sussex, United Kingdom
AIM: tommorris
YIM: tom.morris

I am a , an , like to code in and noodle about with and the . I also have a BA in philosophy from London, and am studying for an MA. My philosophical interests are in Victorian-era German philosophy, Kierkegaard, Robert Nozick, hermeneutics and current approaches to the demarcation problem in the philosophy of science. Musically, I like jazz fusion, soul and P-Funk. My musical nirvana would be a mixture of Beethoven, Miles Davis and George Clinton topped with a side-serving of Erykah, Jill and Angie.

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