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Dojo7 is the tech blog of Pete Hollows —
a web developer & systems engineer working in Melbourne.

WallMap: Building a huge Google Maps poster

Jan 17 2012

With a new apartment comes new projects! There’s a spare wall near the build space that could do with something useful on it. We decided a map would be good. Now to render the map!

I used the excellent Google Static Maps API, the JS API, some CoffeeScript and a static website to create the map.

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Site relaunched. The power of MM!

Jan 15 2012

This site was re-built over a weekend. Static site generators are the new black amongst Ruby developers at present, and from my experience with Middleman it’s easy to see why. In this article I’ll briefly discuss this site’s rebuild and the gains made from taking the static approach.

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