It looks like I may have successfully written an alpha “migrator plug-in” that may work for migrating your com_google_maps component from Joomla 1.0.x to 1.5. Once I have tested this on the internal testbed migration sites for one of my customers, I will write it up here. This will be useful since the developer of the Google Maps API for joomla has no current migration plugins. Stay tuned….

Chris blogged on PhatBoyG about the Web Inspector included in Safari 3. Previously this tool was a simple content inspector, but now it looks to be so much more. If you are using Safari V3 and you are a web developer, have a look at this useful tool. You can gain access to it by enabling the debug menu. Open Terminal and type this defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1 then restart Safari.

For a long time I used google maps over the local provider, WhereiS (a Telstra/Sensis product). Even though google maps had less local content, WhereiS was so 1999 in its web design that it was unusable. Basic dragging of the maps which is now a staple of so many online map providers, was one of the basic missing pieces of functionality. But recently they have updated their online maps, which can now be accessed as a Beta version.

I am developing a web-site for a business. A really simple web presence with some Content Management. I am yet to fully convince the Business Owner that a CMS will be so beneficial to customers, but I am already using Joomla for the site, so we have one in place. I used the DocMan extension for Mambo/Joomla to cover document content and access control for the published documents. After some initial headaches with that, I sorted the issues out (to be blogged some other time I suppose) and started looking around the net for free templates.

The WordPress upgrade went painlessly, and now I am all up to date and back online. V2.1.3 works fab, and all the plugins were compatible.

I was playing around with a side project of mine, a web site in Joomla, and I added some XSLT to allow users to get directions in the Google maps component of this particular Joomla site. Besides the fact that I’m enjoying playing around with this CMS, I am also learning new things. One of them was the fact that I discovered you can now get driving directions for Australian addresses in google maps now!

I thought people understood this simple premise. You write your code to the standard, not to the browser. The browsers then adhering to the standard display the code correctly, or lay it out based upon the chosen style. Why in this day and age are Telstra/Bigpond NOT doing this? I am a customer, and nearly all their web based products MANDATE the use of a single browser; i.e. they write their code to a platform.

So I decided to make sure the blog was valid XHTML (version 1.0 transitional) and CSS. It meant turning off a plugin or two, and also removing the badly mangled flickr badge which uses inline CSS and some funky but not valid scripting.

The Circle Six blog has some good info on wordpress theme design on a mac: “Having spit out several WordPress custom sites in the last few days, I thought I’d detail my current workflow on my Macintosh OSX platform for posterity … A brief summary to begin with … This post will confine itself to the tools required to create a custom theme for WordPress without hacking the core code. However, all of the tools that are mentioned are powerful enough to handle such tasks and I don’t use any additional tools to do my core hacking.