PGCon - the PostgreSQL Conference - wrapped up in May, and they’ve posted many of their session online for free, including slide shows and videos. The links are in the notes for each session/tutorial. The videos are host
I was fortunate to be able to attend the first ever Southeast Linux Fest (SELF) in Clemson, SC this last Saturday. I arrived bleary-eyed and smiling after a 2.5 hour drive early that morning, not entirely sure what to ex
Google has been busy this past month. They have just released a Web Performance Best Practices extension for Firefox. Via Google: When you profile a web page with Page Speed, it evaluates the page's conformance to a numb
I occasionally branch away from GIS topics on this blog to talk about stuff I think is cool. By occasionally I mean all the time, with this post instant being a likely candidate. Which brings me to the recent announcemen
A couple of major announcements from the big web mapping API folks came out recently. First, Google has launched a Maps Data API, which is what it sounds like - you can store map data in the cloud and retrieve it. Now y
What follows is notable news and happenings that I want to purge from my bookmarks folder. It will be a combination of things you already know spiced with things you probably won’t care about. I apologize in advance. Pau
I recently modified one of my mapping sites, Geospatial Portal, to have a nice blue theme to go along with a blue jQuery UI widget theme. I made a new logo, page background image, etc. Blue. Who doesn’t like blue? As it
Two stories collided with my RSS reader this morning, each showing very different approaches to open source software and open standards. I thought the Oh wow!/Oh crap! contrast was enough to warrant a blog post. First I
This month’s Make Smarter homes in on some CSS and Firebug goodies for the web deveopers out there, as well as a couple of resources on Agile project management. In the CSS department, I recently stumbled across the CSS
I’m not sure how the phrase goes exactly, but it includes the words “necessity”, “invention”, and “mother”. To say that my employer’s Internet connectivity can be spotty is a bit of an understatement. Besides frequent sl