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
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
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
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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...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
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
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
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.
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