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Re: Show HN: Website 181 Took Way Longer Than a Day – YumHacker

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Post by mattholtom »

jenniferDewalt wrote: post #7
mattholtom wrote: post #5

She's back! Nice job, Jennifer. The one place I think the 180 previous helped you build massive skill is in UI design. Simple and snappy. What are you using for geo-coding and mapping? I've found a combination of "geocoder" and "gmaps-for-rails" gems work great.

Thank you! I totally agree with you on the 180 websites project really helping with understanding UI design. I'm using the Google Maps Javascript API for the maps and RGeo as a wrapper for PostGIS/Postgres.

Cool, nothing wrong with going to the bare metal for Gmaps in simple applications. If you find yourself doing any complex marker or polygon manipulation Gmaps-for-rails is really worth a look.

Keep up the good work, look forward to more from you in the future!

Re: Show HN: Website 181 Took Way Longer Than a Day – YumHacker

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Post by jenniferDewalt »

mattholtom wrote: post #11
jenniferDewalt wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you! I totally agree with you on the 180 websites project really helping with understanding UI design. I'm using the Google Maps Javascript API for the maps and RGeo as a wrapper for PostGIS/Postgres.

Cool, nothing wrong with going to the bare metal for Gmaps in simple applications. If you find yourself doing any complex marker or polygon manipulation Gmaps-for-rails is really worth a look. Keep up the good work, look forward to more from you in the future!

Awesome! I will definitely check it out.

Re: Show HN: Website 181 Took Way Longer Than a Day – YumHacker

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Post by jenniferDewalt »

izolate wrote: post #12

I think the greatest thing you learned on your 180 website trip was how to deliver. You've cultivated a habit of finishing projects and shipping them through the door. No matter how good a developer you are, that in itself is invaluable.

It was actually a little overwhelming when I first started working on YumHacker. I conditioned myself to have a final product at the end of the day. In the first few days of working on YumHacker I had to keep telling myself that I was working on the order of finishing features not websites. :)

Re: Show HN: Website 181 Took Way Longer Than a Day – YumHacker

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Post by jenniferDewalt »

ToastyMallows wrote: post #16

It's not finding me by current location, it drops me in the map at what looks like Coords 0,0 in the Pacific Ocean.

Sorry about that! Probably not too many restaurants there to endorse. Thanks for letting me know. I'll look into it.

Re: Show HN: Website 181 Took Way Longer Than a Day – YumHacker

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Post by nobodysfool »

jenniferDewalt wrote: post #18
ToastyMallows wrote: post #16

It's not finding me by current location, it drops me in the map at what looks like Coords 0,0 in the Pacific Ocean.

Sorry about that! Probably not too many restaurants there to endorse. Thanks for letting me know. I'll look into it.

Same here. Even when I put in my zipcode, it's not finding me and dropping me at 0,0. The name of my location shows up correctly in the search box, but it returns no results and drops me in the ocean. I can scroll around the map and zoom into my city, but it finds no results.

Re: Show HN: Website 181 Took Way Longer Than a Day – YumHacker

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Post by jenniferDewalt »

nobodysfool wrote: post #19
jenniferDewalt wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry about that! Probably not too many restaurants there to endorse. Thanks for letting me know. I'll look into it.

Same here. Even when I put in my zipcode, it's not finding me and dropping me at 0,0. The name of my location shows up correctly in the search box, but it returns no results and drops me in the ocean. I can scroll around the map and zoom into my city, but it finds no results.

Hm, I think I understand the problem. Back to the code to see if I can track it down. :)
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