Programming Entries
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Parental Controls
Thursday, August 12th, 2010If you are a parent or teacher who is sharing Going Slowly with your children or students, please be aware that there is some adult content contained within. We want to help, but rather than censor ...
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Goodbye, Blogger
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010Goodbye, 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 ...
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Working in Berlin
Sunday, June 13th, 2010Today, 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 scre...
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Read Our Journal in 50+ Languages!
Thursday, May 6th, 2010Spurred 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 can now read our journal in over fif...
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Site Updates
Monday, April 19th, 2010We'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 pr...
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Journal Interface Update
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010We'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 wh...
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Website Additions
Saturday, November 14th, 2009I 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 photo...
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Database Live
Saturday, October 24th, 2009When Tara and I were preparing to leave we talked a great deal about what we wanted to accomplish with our website. Ultimately we chose two main goals: 1) to document the journey itself and 2) to il...
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Journal Update
Thursday, October 8th, 2009We'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 ...
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Going Slowly Features
Friday, August 28th, 2009I 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...
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Garmin Tracks & Google Maps
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009Our 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 i...
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Google Maps & Spot GPS
Sunday, January 11th, 2009We 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 p...