Here is some nerd-sorcery that will probably only interest me. If you aren’t running a Linux desktop or there is something good on QVC right now, go ahead and stop reading. A recent Hak5 episode talked about motion, a pr
My podcast list tends to swell and recede as I add and cull content. Here are my top 5 at the moment: Back to Work - "productivity, communication, work, barriers, constraints, tools, and more". This is my favorite.
Most of us know a lot of the stuff on our mapping sites are things people don’t actually use. Even without the metrics, we all suspected this. But we still put them on there. We do this because of a pervasive misundersta
If you’re looking to move up a major PostgreSQL release (like 9.1 to 9.2), here’s my standard safe/quick way to do it. I’m using Windows in this example, but other than service management specifics it shouldn’t be too di
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The problem with having an app written a year before it is needed is that every time I take a look at it after a few months absence I want to toss it and do it over again. Part of it is development tools and techniques
I could fill a blog with the crazy things you see in government. I generally eschew that stuff because I think people will find it boring, but for you non-government types here’s a quick glimpse behind the curtains. Both
First up in this month’s Make Smarter is a talk by Beth Noveck titled Demand a more open-source government. It’s a timely talk for me (I’m planning an open data refresh when I can clear the ever-growing pile of crap from