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
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
Submitted by a colleague. I'm not sure if the Esri installer reports actual minutes or "RealFeel" minutes.
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
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
Resources GeoPortal Project on Github Mecklenburg County GeoPortal on Github
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
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
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.
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