First up in this month’s Make Smarter, via the Google Earth Blog, is the Battle of Fort Sumter in Google Earth. The KMZ file includes 3D models of the fort and the battery of guns firing on it, historical map overlays, c
I’ve been so busy these past two months, I’ve actually hit SHIFT-A to clear out Google Reader a number of times - gasp. But a few nuggets did catch my eye. If you want to get started with HTML5, look no further than Dive
Here’s the talk I did last week at the 2011 North Carolina GIS Conference. It was the first non-technical talk I’ve given in quite some time (nary a line of code), and it was a lot of fun. If you click on the box-looking
First up in this month’s Make Smarter is the 2011 NC GIS Conference, coming up later this week. Workshops are on Wednesday, and the conference proper starts on Thursday. It’s an outstanding conference - if you’re in the
First up in this month’s make smarter is something near and dear to my heart - Gedit. I split my development time between a text editor and an IDE (Komodo Edit) about 50/50. On Windows that text editor is Notepad++, and
First up in this month’s Make Smarter (mostly because I’m working at home right now) is Jason Fried’s TED Talk Why Work Doesn’t Happen at Work. It talks about why people don’t really do work in the office, and how to imp
Gads! It would appear I forgot about my monthly Make Smarter last month. And by forgot I mean I totally saw it coming and jumped out of the way while sparring with a bunch of other projects. Never fear - the month off me
There was a lot of stuff in the make smarter category this past month. If you’re not smarter after going through some of these, it is not my fault. First up, OpenGeo has been kind enough to release their workshop materia
If you’re into cartography, you’ll want to check out Toby Lester’s Google Tech Talk on the Waldseemüller world map, recently purchased by the library of congress for $10 million. ...the map's main claim to fame is that i
Slim pickings in the Make Smarter department this month, mostly because I’ve been more swamped than usual lately. But I did stumble across a few nuggets worth mentioning. We have been looking at smart phone apps of late,