Hacking at 0300

To make the eruv map, someone had to enter all the individual points of the eruv boundary. That someone was Mickey Ariel (thanks!). To make it possible, I wrote a simple web application that contains a Google map and placs a marker at every mouse click. Each marker has a number, and the list of each marker's latitude and longitude is inserted at the end of the page. The markers can be dragged to new locations, and the boundary is drawn between the markers. Clicking a marker brings up a small callout window where notes can be added, the marker can be deleted and it can be renumbered (to move a marker between markers 4 and 5, change its number to 4.5. When you hit Update, the list will be renumbered appropriately. The tool can be used anytime you need the latitude/longitude for any route. Enjoy!

For those who liked the YI Hebrew keyboard, I wrote a similar keyboard that I use to turn Hebrew into HTML entities (for the website), and, at my kids' request, uses Morfix dictionary and Google Israel to translate or search for Hebrew terms. Enjoy!

Well, I had every intention of documenting all the PHP and Javascript tricks I've learning to get the YI site running, but I'm leyning Acharei Mot-Kedoshim in 2 weeks, plus trying to keep up with shnayim mikra/echad targum plus Rashi and Emek Davar (i've given up on the Malbim,which I started but can't go through all of Sifre each week) in this season of double parshiot is taking all the time I would have had. At least I have my priorities straight! (If you're reading this because you're interested in programming and it all looks like Hebrew, don't worry. It is.)