First post at the beginning of this year announcing that the beta of this site is now “live” and then the next thing you know, it’s complete silence. Of course, being forced to ignore the site over the last nine months had it’s own consequences, like the security bulletin involving TimThumb — and that had it’s own little set of consequences. I forgot that one of my plugins uses TimThumb, and I also forgot that the old Jes.Gs theme used TimThumb as well.
Whoops. My bad. And, that’s what I get for neglecting my personal projects. Serves me right.
Anyway, the new layout is an experimental layout that actually makes use of the Geolocation API that’s supported by Firefox 3.5 and up, Google Chrome, Opera 10.6, IE 9 and Safari 5. Anyone using Internet Explorer 8 and old is shit out of luck. Psst: upgrade or use a better browser — if you have a choice. If you don’t, please kick your IT person in the head and tell him/her that it’s 2011, not 2001.
So anyway, Geolocation. Yeah, cool stuff, that. Basically, the new site features an Easter Egg that should be easy to locate. What does this Easter Egg do? Well, it uses Geolocation to grab your latitude and longitude — you know that prompt about wanting to know your location? Well, allow it or you won’t get the goods. Get it? Good. The next thing that happens is that the coordinates are passed via Ajax to a PHP script that uses the coordinates to query Weather Underground and get the current weather for your location. I may switch it to NOAA or just make the query more general because I have a feeling that I might run into caching issues with the script.
..and instead of writing blog posts, I should be going to bed =D
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