April News Roundup
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. Ubu
Google Releases Experimental 3D Browser Plugin
As you can read about here, here, and here, Google has just released an experimental open source 3D browser plugin. The plugin uses O3D, which is “a new, shader-based, low-level graphics API for creating interactive 3D
Open Source ETL Tools
Moving spatial data into Postgres isn’t difficult to script. Suppose you have the shapefile ponies.shp in WGS84, and you want to dump it into PostGIS as ponies. A plain old batch script like this will do it for you: shp2
Easy Grids in Google Earth
For those of you that live your lives on the grid (ba hahaha! oh, I slay me), the great Free Geography Tools blog posted a link to some grid layers shared by Earth Point. The grids include Degrees/Minutes/Seconds, WGRS,
PyCon Videos Online
Editor’s Note: If you’re training budget looks like my training budget these days, upgrading your skills is something that has to be done on the cheap. Education doesn’t have to be expensive, however. I’m going to try to
Book Review: Learning jQuery 1.3
I get asked for book recommendations on various subjects with some frequency (more so recently as everybody’s training budget is circling the drain). For jQuery, the best book I had found and the one I always recommended
ArcGIS Silverlight API Beta and Some RIA Thoughts
ESRI has released a beta (1.0) version of its ArcGIS Silverlight API. It’s available for download now and supports both Visual Studio and Visual Web Developer Express. Silverlight is Microsoft’s Flash competitor. As much
Internet Explorer 8 is Out
If you hear a faint chorus of cheers through the air ducts, that would web designers around the world heralding the arrival of Internet Explorer 8. Microsoft released version 8 of it’s browser product at 12:00PM EST toda
jQuery 1.3.2 and jQuery UI 1.7 Released
In the woot! department, the jQuery and jQuery UI Javascript libraries have seen major updates. jQuery’s 1.3 branch upgrade happened back in January, with two bug fix releases since then to get to 1.3.2. This is a major
PostgreSQL Upgrade Hack
Here’s a handy tip for you Postgres admins on Windows if you’re getting a “insufficient privileges” error on a minor rev (i.e. 8.3.3 to 8.3.6) upgrade. This tip falls squarely into the hack realm, so use your best judgme