I’ve been playing around with a simple but hopefully interesting logo for the site. I’m not an artist by any stretch of the imagination. GIMP did a few things I wanted and then Photoshop did a couple other things well.  This is what I finally came up with.    Let me know what you [...]

WordPress has a global class that allows you to tie into just about anything.  So I was using the query function to pull my results for the map.  I was watching the load times with Firebug and decided to experiment in an effort to optimize the code.  So i took out the includes to 2 [...]

So I just implemented some basic error checking on the “Submit Landmark” page.  Now, if your landmark cannot be located with a reasonable amount of accuracy, then you will be asked to locate your landmark on a map.  Just zoom in and click on the map once you locate your landmark.  When you click on [...]

So I was checking out the site and looking to see what new landmarks were entered.  It was then that I noticed that my paging links were not appearing in IE when the page loaded.  If I rated a landmark, then the script would run properly.  Through some investigation, I determined that my script that pulls [...]

So apparently the designer of the WordPress theme I am using did not include the wp_footer() function call in the footer of the page. Normally not a big deal but the WordPress Stats plugin uses the wp_footer action to set off the stats function. Once I put in the function I was able [...]

So most of this project is a chance for me to learn more about Javascript and AJAX. I’ve learned a good bit about inheritance and how some variables are global and some are local. So what does this all mean.

When you rate a landmark, the page will refresh using an AJAX call, [...]

So the site has already been “hacked” if you can call my brother with a perl script hacked, but I liked the outcome.

This project was inspired by Cnet’s Buzz Out Loud: Episode 718. It seemed like a fun project and maybe as a by-product of my research I’ll visit some of these places.
So what’s the point. Geek-maps.com is a place to locate tech or geek slanted historical landmarks for your next trip. Geek-maps.com is [...]