Map Widget Maker
Brian Timoney’s post How the Public Actually Uses Local Government Web Maps: Metrics from Denver really got me thinking about things I could be doing differently with web maps. One of them was creating easily embedded, s
Mobile Users > Desktop Users in 2 Years
Matt Welsh and Patrick Meenan from Google have a great slide deck up from Velocity 2012 called Taming the Mobile Beast. Velocity 2012 - Taming the Mobile Beast from patrickmeenan It’s a great (though rather tec
Hello World...
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Should we still support IE7?
One of the most common refrains you will hear from a web developer or designer is “When can I stop supporting the flaming pile of poo that is Internet Explorer [insert any version pre-9]?” For Internet Explorer 6, that
Make Smarter: How to fool a GPS, WebGL, Community Management, CSS Style Guides, and Node.js for Noobs
Todd Humphreys gives a sobering TED Talk on How to fool a GPS. In related news, I am now the Foursquare mayor of everywhere. WebGL is a browser-based hardware accelerated 3D rendering engine based on OpenGL (see Chrom
Holy Smokes TileMill is Fast
It is fairly unfair of me to talk about tile cache generation time for the county via AGS, GeoServer, and TileMill. They are all running on very different machines, and AGS is using a different database backend than GeoS
Curiosity Rover Lands on Mars
Watching democracy inaction here in the states, it is easy to forget the amazing things we can do when we come together. Thanks for the reminder NASA, and congratulations.
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The Gauntlet
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