Nearly there

It's been a lovely day again today. The Gorse Fox had some football to play this morning so headed out at his usual time. The game was 6-v-5 then 5-v-6 in the second half. It was pretty even in the end, with a final score of 7-6 to the yellow bibs. The Gorse Fox scored his first goal for a couple of weeks having ridden a couple of fairly agricultural tackles and, overall, played pretty well throughout the game.

Back home he returned to the code face. (Did you see what he did there?). The code is coming along well now and as he writes this, he thinks the basic extract and mashup is just about done. What he has realised is that he spent a huge amount of time debugging a problem that he hadn't got. Well, that's not quite true - he has got the problem, but the source of the problem was Google and there's nothing he can do about it. In the extract of Gplus, they have linked to various photos - the problem is that they have failed to download some of the photos so the code points to nothing. There's nothing that can be done, so the Gorse Fox will just have to manually check the few posts affected and add a comment to explain.

One of the features that the Gorse Fox used to use in GPlus was "check-in" where he could drop pin on a map to show where he was. This creates a link to Google maps and this opens up in a new window. The Gorse Fox is considering whether to change this and create an imbedded map instead. He'll sleep on this before deciding, then run a full test run on the test system (tawnyowl).

Just for the record, the Gorse Fox is doing all of this by writing directly to the underlying SQL databases for Wordpress rather than trying to manipulate Wordpress itself. It took quite a while to get an understanding of the data model... but he now has some fairly robust and well-tested code that does this on a daily basis.