Today on Global Nerdy:
C’mon, would Scoble show an image like this for the story about Google deprecating its SOAP API on his blog? Arrington? Om? My newest LinkedIn buddy, Jason Calacanis? (Okay, he might, and I think Marc Canter would too.)
But seriously, folks: for smart-headed and smart-assed tech news, Global Nerdy’s the place to go.
Over at my tech blog Global Nerdy, we’ve been blogging like a mofo:
[via Torontoist] Here’s another Google Map-based web application that you might find handy if you live in Accordion City: this interactive Toronto Transit Map, shown below:
This map takes a Google Map of Toronto and overlays it with the routes for the following transit systems:
Just enter an address or intersection as you would into a Google Map, and you’ll see the routes around it.
for the Toronto technology scene in 2007. More later.
For those of you who have Blogware-based blogs (that includes blogs from Domain Direct, NetIdentity, BlogHarbor and so on) and have looked on jealously at other people’s beautiful blog designs, the Blogware Mechanic series of articles is for you! I’ve been blogging on Blogware for over three years and have started a series of articles in which I’ll show you all sorts of ways to customize the design of your Blogware blog! The first article, Blogware Customization Basics, covers some out-of-the-box basics, but I’ll soon start covering some nifty customizations. Check it out!
If you’ve tried my domain name suggestion tool, Duke of URL, and were wondering what the code behind is, you’re in luck. I’ve got a new series of articles titled Coding the Duke which looks at the underlying code behind the Duke of URL and introduces other things such as the OpenSRS API and the OpenSRS-PHP library. The first article, Introducing OpenSRS-PHP, covers the downloading, installation and taking of a test spin of the OpenSRS-PHP library.
“Can’t sleep…Windows Vista will eat my network connection settings…”
When a suit named George and a geek named Joey put a blog together, what do you get? Global Nerdy. Here are the most recent stories:
One of the fun parts of my job at Tucows is coming up with interesting technology demonstrations. Here’s one called the Duke of URL, a little web app that suggests up to 100 available domain names based on a word or phrase that you provide it. You can either visit the Duke of URL page and enter your own word or phrase, or see what the Duke suggests for the following:
The Duke is written in PHP (PHP 5, but it’s compatible with PHP 4) and makes use of Tucows’ OpenSRS API for provisioning and managing domain names. I wrote it to showcase the NAME SUGGEST API call that was recently added to OpenSRS and to demonstrate one possible use. Over the next few weeks, I plan to post the code along with explanatory notes as well as upgrade the Duke to some other possible applications, including mash-ups, over at the Tucows Blog.
If you use the Duke and find a domain name you’d like to buy but don’t know how to order one, drop me a line and I’ll give you a hand.