I decided to create something for the Finnish celebration of 90 years of independence today 6.12.2007. I’m a fan of nice wallpapers, so here’s one for all of you Finland lovers out there.

Finland 90 Years by ~rdnk on deviantART

A Google Maps application for calculating taxi costs and routes has been opened at Kiteentaksi (only in Finnish) pages. The idea is to enter origin and destination street addresses, and use Google Maps API to calculate the route and time it takes to drive. The cost is easily calculated based on the length of the journey. It’s a nice little application, and shows the advantages of using Ajax for interactive functionality.

I have also used Prototype Javascript framework for creating it. It’s a brilliant piece of code that makes handling various browser quirks a breeze.

I set on creating a sort of travelling site for my personal needs. You can find it at virtualtraveller.wolfborder.org. The idea of the site is to provide a search engine for places of the world, and present user relevant information, like information text, maps and photographs. I’m always excited to learn about new places in the world, where I’ve never been. This is now easily possible through Virtualtraveller.

The unique aspect of the site is, that it combines resources from different sites that provide information, like Wikipedia, Flickr and Google Maps. It also has been interesting project to explore into new web2.0 sites API’s, and technologies like Ajax. So there, go expand your mind.