How much do you need those Google Maps API features anyway?

Like lots of people in our field, I have been contemplating moving off of the Google Maps API. I am in no way in danger of hitting the usage caps or violating the API’s TOS. I just have better data. With tools like Ti

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Fixing Code in Wordpress Posts

Ever have Wordpress eat some code in your post? Replaced your >’s or “s with HTML friendly versions did it? Even when you’re running a nice syntax highlighting plugin like Crayon (my new fav) or Syntaxhighlighter Evol

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An Improved PubSub for jQuery

On my last screencast I talked a bit about PubSub and how you could apply it to jQuery. In that one I used “Cowboy” Ben Alman’s jQuery Tiny Pub/Sub. That works great, but I wanted a little something more/different. First

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New Quality of Life Dashboard Design

In case you were wondering, this project hasn’t gone away. The data isn’t due until December now, and the application won’t be due until ~15 minutes after that (give or take). I recently redesigned the whole thing, esche

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Screencast

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Make Smarter - CSS Positioning, Google Maps API + Chrome Dev Tools, Inventing on Principle, and Management Fads

...as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.Guess who forgot to do a Make Smarter last month? THIS GUY! Nobody tooted me complaining, but I can sense the subconscious angst. First

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Getting SublimeLinter Running on Windows

Sublime Text 2 has managed to wrest me away from Komodo Edit, my code buddy of choice for a long time. I like Sublime Text 2 so much that I dropped $60 (gasp!) on it, and I haven’t dropped money on an editor in ages. It

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The Pitfalls of Consensus

Sometimes Google Reader (feed aggregator) goes through my subscription list (mostly other feed aggregators) and flings something at me I wouldn’t normally look at. The other day it sent me to Forbes to look at The Six En

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Feats of Memory Anyone Can Do

I’ll pass this off as topical because the word spatial was bandied about once, but it’s really just a fascinating TED talk by Joshua Foer about memory.

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Screencast

Part 2 of using TileMill. We’ll make some decent street renderings (based on DC Maps), use SVG markers, show raster imagery, and hack TileMill to do 2.5D buildings based on a field value. Main Styles 1234567891011121

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