I’m not really an iPhone person. I have nothing against Apple per se - they make well engineered, aesthetically pleasing, and very functional hardware and software. I’m a technology guy, though, and I like to futz with t
I just stumbled across Blog Action Day, which their site describes as:Blog Action Day is an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite theworld’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the sameissue on the s
Recently there have been a string of live geolocation services that have popped up, including Fire Eagle and the Google Gears Geolocation API. Now Mozilla is jumping into the ring with Geode. The W3C has created a draft
I ran into this on the NC GIS mailing list (thanks Julia!). GISVM is a virtual machine for GIS, including a lot of great open source software: PostgreSQL, PostGIS, GeoServer, Mapserver, FWTools, Quantum GIS, gvSIG, uDIG
With all of the FOSS releases lately and those coming this month (Django 1.0, OpenOffice 3.0, Ubuntu 8.10), I hardly know what to do with myself. But I just ran across this one on Slashgeo, and I think it deserves some s
If you’re a hard-core scifi fan like me, you’ve probably been following the Large Hadron Collider with some interest. What’s not to like about a 27km particle accelerator smasing stuff together at nearly the speed of lig
Unless you’re living under a rock, you’ve heard about Google Chrome, Google’s new web browser and its biggest foray into the browser wars. I’ve been using it for a few days, and I’m really impressed.The main thing to lik
In the continuing march of location-aware web applications, Yahoo! released their Fire Eagle service. What is that you ask?Fire Eagle is a site that stores information about your location. With your permission, other ser
ESRI has officially released its JavaScript APIs. You can read about them and see code samples here.Essentially the Javascript API’s are client-side Javascript libraries that connect to ArcGIS Server REST web services. O
In the oh-finally-thank-you department, ESRI has released a patch that allows 9.2 clients (ArcGIS Desktop, ArcIMS, etc.) to direct connect to a 9.3 SDE server. Yes, the mythical upwards compatibility. You can’t see me ri