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Mikel Maron :: Building Digital Technology for Our Planet

myRadio weather nuggets are busted

Like I said in the previous entry, I have a problem letting old projects die. But in the case of the myRadio weather nuggets, I don’t have time right now to fix it.

Kevin Respecki alerted me to the problem. The SOAP service providing data for the weather nugget/module has been disabled by xmethods.net. Browsing xmethods, I found another SOAP service for weather by zip code which seems to be functional.

I can’t remember how to specify a SOAP service to Radio Userland. If any enterprising RU hacker wants to take a look, the SOAP request parameters are specified in table myRadioMyRadio.modules.weather.webservice.

There are still some good ideas in myRadio, which haven’t been completely realized .. enabling users to aggregate and publish personalized web services, through simple template controls. A couple years on from any active myRadio development, most interesting web services are RESTful or RSS.

Update to GMaps Annotation User Script

I’ve updated the user script described here and here.

• First, update and get the latest Greasemonkey plugin.
• Re-install the gmaps.user.js user script.

The old user script has ceased to work (and may have delivered you here). The old script used “script injection”, which is now old fashioned with Greasemonkey providing xmlhttp requests to any domain.

It still doesn’t work perfectly .. for some reason the map does not recenter and zoom to the location specified in the points file. It could be some change in the XML format, or the gmaps javascript. No time to track this down now, and I know this kind of thing will continue to plague gmaps hacks. If you’re inspired and figure out the problem, I’m happy to hear about it and update the script.

Yea, I have a problem with allowing old projects to die.

Special thanks to “Some Guy” for motivating me