And now for one of those things that will interest only me - a little python script to rotate wallpaper images from a directory in Gnome 3 (for Gnome Shell or Unity in Ubuntu 11.10). Note: Updated with suggestion from Pa
No, not that kind of pencil. This kind of Pencil. I had to make a quick mockup for a project proposal recently. Quick as in I heard about the project at 10:00am and had the project proposal out the door by 3:00pm (and I
GeoKettle 2.0 RC-1
Every time I hear a new buzz word used to describe crap that’s been going on for decades1 it makes me want to hit someone in the face with a skillet. I’d toss DevOps in that category. DevOps according to wikipedia: devop
First up in this month’s Make Smarter is a fascinating talk by Nadya Direkova titled Game On: 16 Design Patterns for User Engagement. We GISers do a lot of things well; user experience design (UX) isn’t one of them. If y
GeoPortal v2.2 is out - get it while it’s hawt. What’s new in GeoPortal v2.2? Glad you asked. Rearranged, prettied, a gutter on the right for scrolling the page, and controls made for fingers. Updated with the late
I just caught this OSCon 2011 talk by Karen Sandler, formerly of SFLC and now Executive Directory of the Gnome Foundation. Any words I type wouldn’t do it justice, so I’ll just shut up and embed the video.
In the didn’t-see-that-coming category, Adobe has released a preview (pre-beta) of Edge, an animation tool for web designers that uses HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript. That’s right, it’s Flash Professional. Only without the F
Whoops. Looks like I’ve been had. The story appears to be an elaborate hoax. Dang it Internets! I’ll leave this post here as a kind of self-flagellation. They also snookered the BBC, CNN, Forbes, MSNBC, CBS, and a bunch