It has long been my position that Flash and Silverlight based online maps should die in a fire. Not necessarily all of them. Just all the ones I have seen. A couple of news stories came across my desk this week that furt
Spectacular time-lapse photography from the ISS.
In the didn’t-see-that-coming category, Adobe has released a preview (pre-beta) of Edge, an animation tool for web designers that uses HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript. That’s right, it’s Flash Professional. Only without the F
Whoops. Looks like I’ve been had. The story appears to be an elaborate hoax. Dang it Internets! I’ll leave this post here as a kind of self-flagellation. They also snookered the BBC, CNN, Forbes, MSNBC, CBS, and a bunch
Developers are in a tizzy over Microsoft’s Windows 8 demo at D9 (ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch). Although I don’t care much about .NET/Silverlight development, I do like a good tizzy. To make a long story short, Windows 8 wil
First up with a bullet and a subject near and dear to my heart, Ubuntu 11.04, the Natty Narwhal, has been released. The big change here is the Unity interface, which based on all the reviews you will either love or hate.
This month saw more news on the web browser front than you can shake a stick it. First and foremost, IE9 has been released. It marks the first time since IE6 that Microsoft has had a competitive browser since…well, ever
Firefox 4 was released today, and the folks at Mozilla have a really cool map/counter showing downloads live, including flashing blips showing where the download is coming from. Right now it looks like they’re averaging
Government Technology has a great article on open source GIS at the Oregon Transportation Department. “It’s amazing. We have developers from all over the world who are contributing to this application, and the developmen
First up in this month’s news roundup are a couple of stories out of Redmond Redlands. Esri has released ArcGIS Online basemap data to everyone free of charge, including for commercial use. The base maps available are hi