As mentioned before, a recent run in with a busload of traffic made me decide to switch from running PHP as CGI to FastCGI, and I’m a better person for it.Here are some instructions on setting up PHP/MapServer to run as
I’ve had this argument a few times before. Maybe you have too. It tends to go like this:“We’ve standardized on the Wuton language for all application development.”“But….it’s so much better to use this other thing for t
One interesting thing that differentiates a web project from a desktop project is you never know how many people you’re going to end up serving. With a desktop application, I can know how many client installs I have and
It looks like the Smithsonian is using MapServer for their Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute web site. It’s an interesting site - it allows you to add your own points to the map from a file and export the resultin
One of my co-workers thought this one up. In our jurisdiction we have a point address database that has all of the known, “official” addresses in our county that we use for all of our geocoding needs. Sometimes, though
I picked this up from the All Points Blog (great blog by the way):Free Geo Crime Analysis Tools for US Law Enforcement The Crime Mapping & Analysis Program (CMAP) a
I’ve been playing with the latest IE 7 beta (beta 3 at the time of this posting), and I have to say it’s a big improvement on IE 6. Most of the usability improvements are simply catching up to the status quo in browsers
I’ve gotten a few questions on learning PHP. Why is finding a class on the most popular web scripting language so tough? Classes on PHP are often hard to find for a couple of reasons.One, it isn’t a vendor-backed solut
This year your intrepid scribe managed to get out to San Diego for the ESRI UC. I thought I’d leaf back through my notes (read: odd pictographic scribbles on cocktail napkins) and post some of the highlights.Labeling &
Machine virtualization is a big deal in IT these days. A virtual machine is an environment which appears to a “guest” operating system as hardware, but is simulated in a contained software environment by the host syste