This post will entertain virtually nobody but me. If you aren’t interested is seeing me being entertained, you can go ahead and stop reading.Aside from a scrap mini-pc I turn on every now and again for my Windows-only L
Ah, Internet Explorer. How do I hate thee? Let me count the ways.#437 Image ToolbarThe Image Toolbar is the handy toolbar that pops up whenever your mouse hovers over an image, asking if you want to save, print, res
A big buzz word (phrase rather) has been floating around for a bit, and as the division I work in is rapidly moving toward it, I thought I’d give it a brief overview. That buzz word/phrase is: service oriented architec
Let me start out by saying I hate this sort of thing. I’ve read so many articles that essentially amount to fanboys writing love letters to their desktops (oh OpenSUSE 10.1 RC1, how I love thee….) that I tend to shun th
This is a tip I picked up on digg. For those Firefox users among you - which I hope is just about everyone - you’ve probably noticed Firefox starts snarfing lots of RAM over time. If you’re sitting on a decrepit machin
I have good news and bad news. Internet Explorer, Microsoft’s long abandoned browser project, is finally slated for an upgrade (thanks to Firefox’s 10%+ and growing market share). That’s the good news. That is also th
Ah, project management. To quote Shakespeare: “He has kill’d me, mother: Run away, I pray you! (dead).”I don’t want to slam the art of project management here. Project managers have a tough job, and oddly enough I fin
I have some projects coming up that need to do routing. And not the nice point-to-point routing either. We’re talking the infamous traveling salesman problem I talked about and wrote code for earlier. This is the kind
Sometimes I find things with dubious real world value that are so cool I have to share them anyway. This gem I ran in to is called Web on Stick (WOS). It essentially lets you run everything you need for a full-fledged
In another article this month we looked at the relatively easy steps to get MapServer installed on Windows/IIS. Now let’s take it a step further and make a map, complete with panning and zooming. PHP/Mapscript makes th