thirstymind.org » javascript http://www.thirstymind.org andrew watts' weblog Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:11:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Fixing twitterrific’s iphone lat lon cryptography the hard way http://www.thirstymind.org/2008/08/03/fixing-twitterrifics-iphone-lat-lon-cryptography-the-hard-way/ http://www.thirstymind.org/2008/08/03/fixing-twitterrifics-iphone-lat-lon-cryptography-the-hard-way/#comments Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:10:18 +0000 Andrew Watts http://www.thirstymind.org/?p=381 Twitterrific’s iPhone App updates your location on twitter using the twitter api. This is fine and dandy but the problem is that it updates with the actual latitude and longitude that (I assume) comes from the iphone api.

So, since most people simply just want to know where you are without hurting their heads doing a reverse geocode, I have created a greasemonkey user script to help them out.

It takes a twitterrific created location that says “iPhone: 40.733956,-73.992789″ and turns it into “New York, New York, US”

If you have greasemonkey installed, all you need to do is download and install this user script and you will be set. If you don’t have greasemonkey, then you will need to obviously install it first and revisit this page to download the user script.

Hopefully one day the twitterrific iphone app will do this automatically so this script is not needed, but until then, I hope this helps some people out.

]]> http://www.thirstymind.org/2008/08/03/fixing-twitterrifics-iphone-lat-lon-cryptography-the-hard-way/feed/ 0 Dustin Diaz’s Brain Teaser http://www.thirstymind.org/2008/07/08/dustin-diazs-brain-teaser/ http://www.thirstymind.org/2008/07/08/dustin-diazs-brain-teaser/#comments Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:43:30 +0000 Andrew Watts http://www.thirstymind.org/?p=370 Late last night Dustin Diaz posted a short brain teaser, there are lots of solutions already posted, but I didn’t see any with a similar approach to mine, so I thought I would also share:

  1.             var arr = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'e',
  2.                        'e', 'e', 'e', 'f', 'e', 'f', 'e',
  3.                        'f', 'a', 'a', 'a', 'f', 'f', 'f'];
  4.  
  5.             var output  = [];
  6.             var tracker = [];
  7.  
  8.             arr.forEach(function(item, index, ar) {
  9.  
  10.                 // check if the tracker array matches the current item
  11.                 if( tracker[0] === item ){
  12.                     // then check if we need to insert a marker
  13.                     if( tracker.length == 2 ){
  14.                          output[output.length] = '<span>';
  15.                     }
  16.                 }
  17.                 else {
  18.                     // if it is different check if we need to close the marker
  19.                     if(tracker.length > 2){
  20.                         output[output.length] = '</span>';
  21.                     }
  22.  
  23.                     // now reset the tracking array
  24.                     tracker = [];
  25.                 }
  26.  
  27.                 // add to the tracking and output arrays
  28.                 tracker[tracker.length] = item;
  29.                 output[output.length] = item;
  30.  
  31.                 // close up, just incase we are open
  32.                 if( index == ar.length – 1  && tracker.length > 2){
  33.                    output[output.length] = '<span>';
  34.                 }
  35.  
  36.             });
  37.  
  38.            document.write(output.join(''));

and here is my live demo.

]]> http://www.thirstymind.org/2008/07/08/dustin-diazs-brain-teaser/feed/ 0