New Camera

After waiting for years I finally found a reason to buy a nice camera for myself. Apparently Nicole getting pregnant was the magic motivator to spend the money required (ah the irony). We decided that I'd pushed the old point and shoot about as far as I could and it was time to step up to something a bit more advanced. Nicole and I imagine she'll spend hours photographing the kids 9 months from now and on. For now though, so far all I've managed is cats and candles. Take a look here.
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FireEagle

After wrestling with BrightKite's api last week I decided I really didn't feel like screwing with it any more. That and the fact that FireEagle sits above bright-kite in the hierarchy of things, made me decide to use FireEagle instead for my stalker map. It all ends up being the same data, but FireEagle's api is well documented, and of course Net::FireEagle is easy to use. I may go back and work on BrightKite::Auth and BrightKite::User in the future, but I think the FireEagle re-factor should do.
Today turned in to one of those days where you set out to do something simple and blow it out of proportion. I managed to do that by refactoring my fe_maps app interface. Now instead of going to bkite_maps or fe_maps/ you have to go to /fe_maps/loc, and if you want to get xml or json you simple go to /fe_maps/loc.xml or /fe_maps/loc.json. All this thanks to Mason's dhandler system.
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