MovieLandmarks

A simple missing var map declaration was causing IE to choke on the site. It is now working for all browsers I can test with (FF3, Safari, IE8, Chrome). Let me know if you find any problems with it.

After dumping app engine to return to the original PHP+MySQL based system I’ve been working hard to get all the user facing features running. Tonight I’ve finally reached the point where everything is working. You will notice that hovering over the landmarks shows ‘null’ in a lot of cases. This is because I’ve made a [...]

Adding Landmarks is now working, they just aren’t linked to anything yet and don’t show up on the map when it is reloaded. The system is also creating csquares for use in the clustering system (to be described in detail after I have it working). csquares should be a significant improvement over the clustering method [...]

I’ve decided to rewrite the back-end of MovieLandmarks in Python and move it over to Google’s AppEngine. This should allow me to focus on developing features for the site without having to worry (too much) about scalability and reliability of the servers it is running on. 
I have plans to re-activate user submissions for content, as [...]

I’ve started adding jquery to the development version. I’ll be using it for UI elements and themes.

I had an undeclared map variable which caused IE7 to choke with a cryptic error message. Seems to be fixed now, but you really should use Firefox or Chrome instead of IE.

I’ve been working on some improvements to the site the last few days. The default display mode is now just maps instead of satellite — it loads faster and you can always switch. Eventually there will be a cookie to remember user prefrences.
I’ve fixed the URLs so that you can email links to your favorite [...]