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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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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Submitted by a colleague. I'm not sure if the Esri installer reports actual minutes or "RealFeel" minutes.
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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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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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Resources
GeoPortal Project on Github
Mecklenburg County GeoPortal on Github
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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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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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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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Last week’s family trip to Disney World inspired me to do something I have been thinking about/procrastinating o
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