Manda QoP

I've uploaded the presentation from tonight's talk at CodeMania after dark.    It was great fun showing everyone how easy it is to create your own Google map, and it was quite interesting the number of people afterwards who said they'd always thought it was something difficult to do.   Lots of people are hopefully now going away to play with customising their own Google maps and with any luck creating loads of funky fun things to play with online.    I can't quite name the overall highlight of the evening for me, but it's a close run thing between the great diversity of topics covered by the other amazing speakers, Corey's disco ball hoodie and Zak the Cat!

26th October 2012 Codemania After Dark Hopefully you've already got your tickets to this spiffing event that's happening on the 26th October. Info here:   http://codemania.co.nz/ I'm doing a lightning talk on creating custom Google maps - very lightning, how to create a map in 10 mins - phew... this will require some fast talking. If you're not going to the event and you want to check out the quick start guide to creating a custom Google map, then check out the presentation.

Okay, time to bite the bullet.  I'm always going on about how great Google Apps are and promoting them to other people, but for some reason I'm not fully utilising Google to their full potential when it comes to my own business, so to see how easy it is to set up with Google Apps, I've decided to migrate my website from its current opensource FuzzyLime CMS to Google. I was planning a complete overhaul of the site anyway to make it look more professional and to add some new pages & features, so it may as well be moved at the same time. Before starting the move I need to sign up for the free 30 day trial and spend a bit of time taking a good look around to see what's what.   If you want to check it out for yourself, here's the link: http://ping.fm/wTk6n Things I need to consider: 1.  Make sure mail delivery to *@beegle.co.nz is not interrupted 2.  Make sure visitors to www.beegle.co.nz don't get a 404 at any stage during the move 3.  And erm.... that's it ...

Google, you rock!  The Navigation add-on on the Android is rather spiffing, especially now you've fixed it so that it works in NZ.   However, there is one wee bitty problem in the function where you can speak your destination, though it is proving somewhat amusing.  We've tried Kiwi, English, South African, Welsh and German accents, which all result in some interesting locations; only when we adopt a US accent do we get close to the right location.  Now as much as I enjoy playing around with accents, it can be pretty embarrassing in the car if other people are with you and you suddenly start talking like an American just to get your phone to understand you.  It just isn't cricket old chaps.  So any chance you could do a wee tweak to Navigation so that people can 'Speak Your Destination' in their own native accent?  That would be rather spiffing thanks.