It is alive! ALIVE! …which isn’t terribly exciting, seeing how as it hasn’t changed a whole lot in months. But there data is there now and the beta label is off, so that’s something. Feel free to grab the code on GitHu
If you hover near the image header on this site, another image will pop up on top of it. I thought that would be a neat effect, but I would normally do something like this with a jQuery $("#id").hover() type of thing, and this site is probably the only site I’ve done in years that doesn’t load jQuery. jQuery is small and generally everybody has the Google CDN version cached, but I didn’t want to load jQuery just for what is really styling.
Looking for a plain-old JavaScript way to do it, I stumbled onto how to do it in pure CSS.
Ah, that’s better. This theme is still a work in progress, but you can get it here. It isn’t really a customizable theme per say (read: you probably don’t want to use it), but feel free to pilfer should you find anything useful.
Behold! Fuzzy Tolerance has moved from Wordpress to Jekyll/Octopress.
Jekyll is the engine behind Github Pages and is a static-site generator. That’s right - no PHP, .NET, Python, RoR, etc. - plain old HTML. You set up a HTML/CSS/JavaScript template, write your content in HTML or Markdown, and then generate your whole site. Rsync up to your server, Bob’s your uncle. No databases or server-side content required. Octopress is a blogging framework that sits on top of Jekyll and adds a lot of convenience.
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After my Quality of Life Dashboard project (which is still glacially inching towards the finish line), I decided I have mad love for (a) Leaflet and (b) Bootstrap. I tossed together a template I can use to quick-start ne
Resources How the Public Actually Uses Local Government Web Maps Installing LibreOffice Presenter Console on Ubuntu 1210: sudo apt-get install libreoffice-presenter-console
Our GIS Day 2012 festivities will be kicking off at Spirit Square, 345 North College Street, Charlotte NC on Wednesday, November 14th. You can leave your awesome at home because we’re bring it, including an Ignite talk
Brain-dump on a number of topics: Dropbox Git and Github Sublime Text 2 and favorite extensions Video recording software CSS box-sizing Legacy browser support My thoughts on GISP Resour