August 2005 Entries
Inspired by what Rob did with geotagging Flickr, I built something similar with Where's Tim that I talked about yesterday. You can click the “Fly To With Google Earth” button and it will generate a .kml file that will open inside of Google Earth. It wasn't that hard to generate. I used a XmlDocument to load the core .kml file (I actually renamed the base.kml file to base.xml because XmlDocument will not load a file that doesn't end in .xml) I then use a XmlNodeList to find the specific...
Using EnGraph's GPSParser, Air-Trak's Cloudberry AVL data and Google Maps, I built a web page that shows my real time location. It took a little over an hour to put together. That shows the ease of EnGraph GPS Management tools and Google Maps. Here's the page - www.timhibbard.com/wheresti...
It's not really a “buzz”, but Quicktime Killer is getting some people talking here, here and here.
We use this code to limit the size of directories in our Logger control. The control will automatically export itself to an .xml file after it reaches a certain number of entries. However we don't what that folder to get too big. So this function gets the size of the directory and if it is larger than a certain size of MB, it will delete the oldest file. It works recursively, so the directory size will always stay at a certain size. It actually runs surprisingly quickly. Private Sub TrimArchiveFolder(ByVal...