Last night I spent a considerable number of hours wrestling with Drupal, Views, Location, Gmaps, and the confounding CCK. I dont think I fully understand Drupal's taxonomy yet, so maybe that's why its still a struggle to edit Drupal. And so this morning I woke up early, deleted Drupal off my server, installed Wordpress and WP Geo - AND GOT EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED UP AND RUNNING IN LITERALLY HALF AN HOUR. With simply Wordpress and WP Geo!

Nuff said.

ITS UP AND I'M READY TO DOCUMENT IT ALL!

http://psychogeography.sg/river

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Site building

I'm no web developer, but a peculiar thing happened again which I don't really understand. Each time I create a new database, it seems to suggest to me that the hostname would naturally be that string of numbers that appears behind it - in this case, the 209 number. In fact, the EVIL, evil MySQL Manager even says that its the Hostname.



But it is not! I actually have to go into phpMyAdmin to find out the real server hostname, which in this case is actually a 216 number as reflected on top. The last time I installed Drupal, I vaguely recall the exact same thing happening? WHY? WHAT IS THAT FIRST MYSTERIOUS NUMBER FOR THEN?



NON COMPRENDRE. Can anyone explain this?

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psychogeography.sg/river was built with:
Wordpress 3.0
WP Geo Plugin
Foliogrid Template

Some people have asked me really good questions while I've been in the gallery setting up. Effendy asked me: "What is the scale of your map?"

After some calculation with the rulers on Google Maps, I have confirmed that the approximate scale for my 3.75metre long map is about 1:1000. (In case you are wondering how I managed to fit a 4.1km river in a representation of a 3.75km stretch, it is simply because the river is CURVY)



The ruler/line function is not automatically switched on in Google Maps, you'll have to click on the green beaker icon on the top right corner to see this feature!



Meanswhile, I must admit that it has been a steep learning curve to use Flash Builder and AS3. Somehow I just could not get a certain offending child object to pass variables to the main document class, even after flagrantly abusing public variables. In the wee hours of this morning, I finally solved the problem, but resultantly it has all become SPAGHETTI CODE. WITH MEATBALLS ON TOP. But it doesn't matter, as long as it works tomorrow...