First up is the release of the GIS Stack Exchange Beta. If you’re a developer, you know what Stack Exchange is. If there’s a better resource for getting tech help, I haven’t seen it. Check it out and answer some question
Via Slashdot, a researcher at the University of Illinois at Chicago has figured out how to game foursquare with 9 lines of Perl with standard Perl libraries. 123456789101112131415#!/usr/bin/perl -Wuse IO::Socket;srand;sl
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Slim pickings in the Make Smarter department this month, mostly because I’ve been more swamped than usual lately. But I did stumble across a few nuggets worth mentioning. We have been looking at smart phone apps of late,
Via Downloadsquad, check this out: Apparently somebody likes Ayn Rand so much he stuck a GPS unit in his car and drove 12,328 miles to “draw” Read Ayn Rand. You might have to drive 12,328 miles to get through the audiobo
Another bit of random coding from Fuzzy Tolerance. I have a wiki page where I put a lot of tutorial videos for our division. Some are hosted on YouTube because they are about something general or about something related
Via the Google Earth blog - whoa! NASA Earth Observatory The Google Earth blog posted a link to Network for Good if you want to donate to the relief effort.
The W3C Web Storage API is a specification for persistent data storage of key-value pair data in Web clients. It was originally part of the HTML5 spec and you’ll still hear it called HTML5 storage a lot online, but it wa
I don’t mention Bing Maps on here a whole lot, mostly because I rarely use it and being a Linux user Silverlight is a no-go. They’ve introduced a couple of interesting new features of late, with the coolest one coming so
You couldn’t swing a dead cat this month without running into news about the Esri UC. Despite the economy, the UC was bigger this year than ever before. I didn’t make it out to San Diego, but reading the coverage and pla