Linux Reduces E-waste
It seems like the tech industry is in a mad rush to go green. Every time I turn around I’m reading about reducing power consumption in data centers and recycling old equipment. I would put this trend in the broad categor
Grab Some Icons for Web Maps
I was recently stalking some decent icons to use with one of my web mapping projects, and I ran across a resource I thought I’d share. Mapki is a wiki that “is meant to be a forum for sharing ideas, implementations, and
A Quick and Dirty Reverse Proxy with PHP
I’m polishing off a new mapping site that uses Geoserver/Tilecache as a WMS back end. Tilecache is a Python WMS/TMS server that caches images to speed up your WMS client. It’s the bees knees. Unless, like your intrepid s
Google Lets Users Edit Maps
From Slashdot: Google now lets registered users in the US, Australia, and New Zealand move incorrect address locations on Google Maps. Some addresses, such as hospitals and government buildings, can’t be moved, and if yo
Visual Studio 2008 Released
For all the VS fans in the house: Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2008, and with it .NET 3.5. Although Microsoft has has a rash of late software releases the last few years, to their credit this one rolled out the d
ArcGIS Service Pack 4 Is Out
Yes, that’s right. Another one. ESRI has released service pack #4 for it’s core suite of products - ArcGIS, ArcIMS, ArcSDE, et. al. The release notes say: ArcGIS 9.2 SP4 contains critical fixes and new functionality. It
Microsoft and Zend Release FastCGI for IIS
A long while back I mentioned Microsoft and Zend had entered into a collaboration agreement to create a native FastCGI interface for IIS. That project has finally begun to show some fruit. Microsoft and Zend have release
Scientific Web Design
If you have to design a web site from time to time, check out Scientific Web Design: 23 Actionable Lessons from Eye-Tracking Studies. An eye tracker is a device for measuring eye positions and eye movements, often used i
Knowing the Cost of Meetings
As a general statement, I don’t particularly care for meetings. Part of that is my own personal bias. Like a lot of tech/programmer types, I’m mildly autistic (somewhere in the asperger spectrum), and I don’t function te
Using the USNG - The Web
Now presenting part du of our USNG series - using USNG on our web site. First, let’s review our minimum requirements for our USNG-supporting application: Locate and zoom to a USNG location (user input). Display