I’ve been toying around with canvas tag and learning the ins and outs of Drag and Drop
I created a little proof of concept app that allows you to add markers to an image.  The meta about the markers (relative location, marker symbol, desc, color, etc) are stored in a DB on another server using…

Sexy little (well medium i guess) device. As a software developer though I cannot see it replacing my laptop (currently a msi u123). I don’t see writing code on a ipad.
Also, it would not be replacing my phone. I guess we will be able to use skype (or skype-like services) on…

I recently found myself considering moving one of our servers to the Rackspace Cloud. I needed to get an estimate of the cost for bandwidth usage.
I remembered I had installed vnstat on that server when it was deployed.  This made the bandwidth calculation completely simple:
Just have vnstat give me the bandwidth sliced by…

I’m teaching a PHP/MySQL course at the local community college this fall.  First order of business is to get everyone set up with a PHP development environment.  I decided to go ahead and post the strategy for the course as a post here in case it may be helpful others just starting out in…

Inspired by Toby Segaran’s creation of a heat map of restaurant health inspection scores for San Francisco, I set out to do the same for Portland, Oregon.  I was able to scrape establishment records from the existing Multnomah County Food Establishment Inspections Search.  Then I got lat/longs for those addresses using Google’s geocode API. …

Very impressed with Solr and the development community behind it. http://lucene.apache.org/solr/
1.5 days of research, submitted bug and resulting immediate patch and I have a fully functional search engine for a project at work.
If you’ve ever thought it would be nice to have your very own google type appliance, I highly recommend you check out…

One of the books I am currently reading is “An Introduction to Neural Networks“. The introductory chapter covered the Turing Test and the fact that no computer has ever come close to passing it. The context of the chapter was about the limitations of the computer to house and efficiently access a db…

Adding some message body to see where it ends up.

Very happy with my Kindle2 so far as a book reader. I enjoy reading tech books and my wife uses it for novels.
I’ve started playing with the experimental web browser and have found it to be very useful. As expecting it has trouble with graphics but for mobile oriented sites it has…

This year’s Winter Coders Social is set to go. Come join the party this Tuesday, December 9th at Cubespace.
Details: http://calagator.org/events/1250456151