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Fleeing Mud Season to Boston

Sunday, April 6th, 2014

Tyler and I have just finished a fantastic week in Boston! He was in the city to work and teach a class on Javascript at the Bocoup Loft, and I was lucky enough to tag along. The mini break could not have come at a better time. After months of snow...

Woo Hoo, I Work At Bocoup!

Monday, January 6th, 2014

I just landed my dream job—as of today, I am an engineer at Bocoup! After eight years running a one-man software consultancy, I am ready for something new. I'm not usually much of a group joiner, but the Bocoup team has totally won me over. ...

Our Process: Automation: Journal Photos

Wednesday, January 5th, 2011

This entry is part of an ongoing series about how we've documented our adventure. As of this writing, our journal contains approximately eight thousand photos, distributed over eight hundred and five published entries. We store this ever g...

Our Process: Google Maps & GPS Tracks

Friday, December 24th, 2010

This entry is part of an ongoing series about how we've documented our adventure. Throughout our trip, I have saved our GPS tracks nightly. My plan to maintain one unbroken line, showing every road we've ridden for the entirety of our adve...

Our Process: Automation & the GSDB

Thursday, December 23rd, 2010

This entry is part of an ongoing series about how we've documented our adventure. When we left on this trip, neither of us had an inkling that we'd be documenting our adventure in such exhaustive detail. The original idea was simple: a fli...

Working at Lake Teletskoye

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

We started our day looking for information about Uchar Waterfall. Our investigation turned up some interesting news: the falls are very young, just a few hundred years old, and they were only discovered about twenty years ago! Also among the fact...

Parental Controls

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

This feature was removed during website upgrades on November 8th, 2012. If you are a parent or teacher who would like to use it, please contact me and I would be happy to re-implement it. If you are a parent or teacher who is sharing Going...

Goodbye, Blogger

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

Goodbye, blogger! I have officially migrated all five hundred and twenty of our journal entries, and nearly two thousand comments to our own server. This journal is now stored in our database, and displayed with my new, written-from-scratch publi...

Working in Berlin

Sunday, June 13th, 2010

Today, we spent some time designing a new website for our road trip. It is going really well! As was the case when we made Going Slowly, there were some frustrating bits where we stared at the screen cringing. It's especially difficult for me, b...

Read Our Journal in 50+ Languages!

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

This feature is currently missing on our new design, but may return eventually! Spurred by several conversations we've had over the last year with non-english speakers who have expressed a desire to follow our journey in more than photos, you...

Site Updates

Monday, April 19th, 2010

We've received several reports over the last few months that the search feature on our journal was pretty awful. In response, I've just implemented a new google-based search. The results aren't pretty-looking yet, but they are a lot more relevan...

Journal Interface Update

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

We've received several emails from people saying that they often accidentally click on images and feel it is confusing when they are directed to a Flickr photo page. I've updated our site so that when you click on an image it will display a larger...

Website Additions

Saturday, November 14th, 2009

I finally spent some time this weekend working on integrating our Bicycle Touring Database with our website. Most of the changes were to the google map on our home page. Each marker now shows photos and journal entries for the location when you c...

Database Live

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

We started this trip by simply recording our GPS coordinates every night and maintaining a budget in excel. Over the last six months we've added all sorts of features to our website that we didn't originally plan for: saving our daily gps tracks, ...

Journal Update

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

We've received several emails over the past few months with people requesting an easy way to read our journal from start to finish rather than hunting through dates on the navigation pane. I've put a new link under the search box (on the left at t...

Going Slowly Features

Friday, August 28th, 2009

I spent some time programming a few new features for our website today: You can view our photos (updated in realtime) from our website! You can now view our GPS tracks by country in addition to seeing them for a specific day. This is...

Garmin Tracks & Google Maps

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

Our GPS unit records our position every few seconds while we ride to a 'track log'. We have been downloading these tracks nightly to keep a record of our journey. I have been meaning to hook this information into our google map for a few weeks no...

Google Maps & Spot GPS

Sunday, January 11th, 2009

We received our Spot Satellite Messenger this week. I spent some time this weekend working with their sharing interface to set up a Google Map that will show our current/past locations on the home page of our website. The XML parser I wrote fo...

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