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Make an OpenLayers Preview from Metadata

Posted on October 21, 2009 by Fuzzy

My horrific Metadata Navigator hack garnered a lot more interest than I expected, so in addition to patching a couple of bugs some users pointed out (thanks folks!), in the 1.1 release I added an interactive map preview using the … Continue reading →

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Google Chrome Frame Puts Chrome in Internet Explorer

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Fuzzy

In the if-you-can’t-beat-them-shove-a-tube-down-their-throat-and-plant-eggs-in-their-chest department, Google has released Chrome Frame, an open source plugin that drops Chrome’s HTML (WebKit) and JavaScript (V8) engines into IE. Ars has a good summary as usual. The idea is an IE user stumbles upon your … Continue reading →

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Simple Python HTTP Server

Posted on September 22, 2009 by Fuzzy

Linux Journal posted a nifty Python trick to quickly share files on your network. It should work anywhere that Python does (i.e. anywhere). Just CD to the directory you want to share and type: python -m SimpleHTTPServer Anybody that navigates … Continue reading →

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Metadata Navigator

Posted on September 11, 2009 by Fuzzy

I’ve been resisting sharing a project here for two reasons. First, it involves metadata. Metadata is absolutely one of the most important and valuable things you can do. Like paying taxes. Second, what I did is such a total and … Continue reading →

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jQuery Tools – A Cool New UI Library for jQuery

Posted on September 9, 2009 by Fuzzy

When I have to do JavaScript programming for a web site, the first thing I do is drop in a reference to jQuery on Google’s CDN. I can’t imagine doing any non-trivial JavaScript work without jQuery. jQuery is: …a fast … Continue reading →

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