SVG symbols in the Google Maps API 3.9 - elevations along a path

SVG symbols is one the the big new things in the Google Maps API v3.9. They showed it in a variety of ways at Google I/O (see the last Make Smarter), but one of my favorites was when they took the elevation service and d

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Use a Git hook to push it when you push it

When I heard Paul Irish mention in passing in his JSConf talk that a certain company’s Git repo box would play Salt-n-Pepa’s Push It every time somebody…pushed it, every geeky molecule in my being screamed WANT. It ended

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A little longer than I had hoped...

Submitted by a colleague. I'm not sure if the Esri installer reports actual minutes or "RealFeel" minutes.

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Make Smarter - Google I/O 2012, JSConf, Learning Github, and Building an App with GeoLocation and Tracking

A couple of big conferences wrapped up recently, leaving me with more presentation videos than I can waggle a mouse at. First, check out the gaggle of videos available from Google I/O. The quantity and quality of stuff t

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Mecklenburg GeoPortal Updated with Transit Routing

As mentioned in my last post, the GeoPortal Project recently had a monster update (and has had several more git pushes since then - I never do anything right the first 12 times). I then spent the better part of a day and

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Screencast

Resources GeoPortal Project on Github Mecklenburg County GeoPortal on Github

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Make Smarter - Smelly Code, Stop Sucking, Software on a Deadline, the Best JavaScript Book EVER

This month’s make smarter brings you slide decks galore! First up is Crafting Software on Impossible Deadlines by Christopher Groskoph (@onyxfish). Imagine shipping software in 2 hours flat! One of the top things you nee

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Brackets is kinda awesome

Check out Brackets, an alpha-ish open source code editor for the web from Adobe.  Basically it looks like it’s all Chrome (the code itself is JavaScript/CSS/HTML) inside a light shell to handle things like local

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Doing it wrong - no such thing

I told the boy sometimes people dress up in costumes for the Heroes comic convention in Charlotte. He darted into his room and emerged wearing a fireman hat and a chef apron.

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Dante's Easy-Bake v2.0

Embed Link: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-K4zFYDHgEJs/T98pSpiIh2I/AAAAAAAADEo/VXiKHYQ5Owg/s918/1.png Last week’s family trip to Disney World inspired me to do something I have been thinking about/procrastinating o

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