I have been working on a project called the Quality of Life Dashboard. In a nutshell it’s a collaboration between the City of Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, UNCC, and a host of other partners to create a neighborhood bas
I’ve had a few questions on how I make the podcasts on Linux, so here is my latest setup. Eat your heart out Stephen Spielberg. For recording the screen, I use ffmpeg to capture audio and video. I capture directly to Web
To get anywhere in responsive web design, you’ll need to set the viewport meta tag in the head of your web page. 12<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> Here’s the media query us
*If you are a project manager I’m acquainted with, this doesn’t apply to you. It only applies to the other ones.
First up in this month’s make smarter, Paul Irish gives a great talk at Velocity 2011 on using Chrome’s Dev Tools to test your app for speed and performance. Chris Coyers of CSS Tricks has a great post called What We D
Our annual GIS Day festivities are being held at Spirit Square (345 N. College St., Charlotte NC) on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 from 8:30am to 4:00pm. There will be presentations, activities, fun and games for all ag
XKCD = Awesome
It has long been my position that Flash and Silverlight based online maps should die in a fire. Not necessarily all of them. Just all the ones I have seen. A couple of news stories came across my desk this week that furt
Via Frank’s Geo-Geeking, the FOSS4G presentation and workshop videos are available. Included is my short talk in the Wading Into Geospatial Open Source workshop. If you didn’t guess from the video never changing, I wen
There’s something about walking out my door in the morning and away from my head-slappingly fast PC and bandwidth and cozy office, spending 45+ minutes on the road to wind up in front of an atrociously slow last-last-las