Canvas is a HTML5 element that allows for 2D shape and bitmap drawing and animation. I haven’t done anything with canvas yet (at least not anything useful), but I’ve been keeping an eye on it. Here are a couple of cool d
First up in this month’s Maker Smarter is a Google Tech Talk on OpenHatch. If you have ever wanted to get involved in open source software, OpenHatch is a great way to start. An open source volunteer finder, it makes it
First up in this month’s make smarter comes via the Google Geo Developers Blog and links to 9 different geo related presentations from Google I/O, including porting applications from the Google Maps API v2 to v3, tips an
Last month Google unveiled its Font API, which makes custom font usage on your web page a snap. I talked about using @font-face before, and it isn’t terribly hard to use your own fonts that way. But doing it through Goog
Since this conference won’t be on the radar of most readers of this blog, I thought I’d wave its banner. The SouthEast LinuxFest is June 11-13 in Spartanburg, SC. I attended the inaugural SELF conference last year, and
First up in this week’s Make Smarter comes via Download Squad and is a free, interactive book called Eloquent JavaScript. It’s targeted at the beginning programmer, but there’s enough in there to keep most folks entertai
I use Google Maps often. I’ve created a handful of mashups with it. And I’m a certified GIS Savant © for pete’s sake*. But I didn’t know about a number of things in Lifehacker’s Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know Google
This month’s make smarter is so chock-full of goodies, it’s a wonder I’m not significantly smarter than I is am. First up is a 5 part series on JavaScript by Doug Crockford, who may know more about JavaScript than anyone
First up in this month’s make smarter comes via SlashGeo and is maptogether’s Illustrated Guide to Nonprofit GIS and Online Mapping. This well written and illustrated document covers the basics of GIS, some examples of n
Tim Berners-Lee (yes, that Tim Berners-Lee) gave a great TED Talk called The Year Open Data Went Worldwide. And it’s all about maps. OpenStreetMap gets a special mention.