Next year the 2010 Census data will be coming out, and shortly after that redistricting will be in full swing across the US. Redistricting for our County Commisioner districts is a very simple affair. The districts are c
For a number of my OpenLayers projects I create a vector layer to hold markers and handle popups et al. I’ve found this more flexible than a marker layer, especially if you want to futz around with particular features la
If you’re a Linux user, you probably caught the Phoronix post about scheduler improvements coming in the kernel. Basically it’s grouping tasks together in a way that improves desktop interactivity under system strain, wi
I just pushed out GeoPortal v1.3 with some new features - moved to jQuery Templates for reporting, put a lot of config code in one file (contributed by Mike Wilson - thanks!), added search help, and some general bolt tig
Note: Recently updated with a few fixes. Most notably I switched mobile device detection from CSS width/height to JavaScript navigator.userAgent. It feels like cheating, but it so much easier. Thanks for the feedback! I
I’ve been toying with the idea of making an open data portal for Mecklenburg, ala DataSF or Vancouver, for a while now, but I didn’t get around to starting one until last month. It’s pretty much done now, and you can see
Via Slashdot, a researcher at the University of Illinois at Chicago has figured out how to game foursquare with 9 lines of Perl with standard Perl libraries. 123456789101112131415#!/usr/bin/perl -Wuse IO::Socket;srand;sl
Another bit of random coding from Fuzzy Tolerance. I have a wiki page where I put a lot of tutorial videos for our division. Some are hosted on YouTube because they are about something general or about something related
The W3C Web Storage API is a specification for persistent data storage of key-value pair data in Web clients. It was originally part of the HTML5 spec and you’ll still hear it called HTML5 storage a lot online, but it wa
I have always been fascinated by things I suck at, and design is way up on my suck list. I’ve become much better over time, but boasting about that would be like boasting about progressing to a cushier level of Dante’s E