July 2009
75 posts
ahh.. the sweet smell of native postGIS code being executed…
RT @datastore: Hack the environment #hackday http://bit.ly/khvQn
<3 #PostGIS & #Rails: Transect.all :joins => :country, :conditions => “countries.name = ‘Australia’”, :select => “ST_extent(geom) as box”
Am I the only one that thinks Google Earth is a bit of a crutch? Sure the big “G”, but where’s the interaction? Where’s the story?
Remembered why I came for the rails. Easy to loose track of that.
Finally realised it unlikely I’ll meet tomorrow’s deadline. It’s been a hell of a day. Think I’ll sleep on it.
Looking forwards to my morning training session. Gonna be a good day!
Great to get down to some solid e-commerce work today. Customer interaction is great fun & I love UX when you are in control of the stack.
JRuby, with Rubyfied Geoserver and GeoAPI libraries - interesting…..
After a teleconf with a great global team I walk out the office and am here. Funny old world. http://twitpic.com/bgi6g
in SSL cert renewal hell.
thought I might have #swineflu. 14 hrs of Z later it turns out I just needed sleep…
House of Flying Daggers storyline is frikking mental.
Nick Drake advertising BT Unlimited Anytime plan. #apocolypsenow
Really liking mingle 2.3. With its prioritisation and snappy jruby server it’s finally surpassing a traditional card wall. #mingle
Awesome RT @galaxyzoo via @ninajansen I’m talking to 2 teenagers on facebook who heard my talk and are up at 3 a.m. classifying galaxies.
hitting ‘e’ to archive webpages doesn’t work. Too much Gmail…
glad that @saleiva is doing the UX in #PPE!
Google Flash/Flex Maps API Evolution and plans: http://bit.ly/r28Lw
3d perspective coming to flash maps! via @pamelafox
Jruby speed is amazing. Finally making the switch from MRI. Apple’s Macruby is all kinds of awesome too: VB done right. Gonna be huge.
man, I must get to RubyKaigi next year.
OMFGBBQ Monkey Island for the iPhone. http://bit.ly/x5Kzs #iPhone #Monkey. Via @simonech & @rschu
anyone know if the RubyKaigi sessions are online?
looking at the Google Wave sandbox URL, it’s on it’s way to google apps. All kinds of A.W.E.S.O.M.E
Reading up on spatial taxonomies. Taxonomy is such a cross cutting area - reinventing the wheel has happened lots.
Being made very happy by the Common Data Model for managing Taxonomies. Thanks @timrobertson100 ! #CDM, #Win #Win #勝ち
hmm. encoded polylines and ultra fast json streaming in ruby….
OH: swine flu has so much more mindspace because it’s so well branded.
Collaborative map editing on google wave. Garlic bread!
Amazing HD footage of whale sharks and mantas in a huge Japanese Aquarium: kuroshio sea http://is.gd/1D8sn. Via @svenfuchs
Angry catman singing in SF bar. They don’t have this down the Legion. http://twitpic.com/aqnuz
is there an online scientific reference manager with API access?
Great to have dinner with @pixelnurse tonight, also great post on patience: http://bit.ly/ZUZWn
I really really hate marketing flow charts http://twitpic.com/ag996
Nice to be back in SF, it’s such a nice city. Chilly tonight!
Social media is lame http://twitpic.com/ag8g0
Awesome piano standoff! http://twitpic.com/aemwt
#esriuc loving the esriuc backchannel on freenode
made it to the cloud computing talk at #esriuc. I like this man’s beard
About to blow my body clock out of the water…
Upgrade! Result!
Traveling past fields teeming with rabbits, birds and deer. Who says there is no wildlife in agricultural england?
Google Apps are out of Beta. You’d now have to officially be mental to use MS Exchange. http://tr.im/rgCl via @charlesroper
Google apps iPhone login screen really lets the rest of the awesome app down. Please fix. #google
I love a billious moon, and that’s what we have tonight!
Thinking in the shower productivity > Desk based thought productivity.
linux/unix server monitoring toolbar over ssh from your OSX local machine. ACE. http://digitalflapjack.com/serverbar/
watch the #tdf live: http://tdf.sbs.com.au/tdf2009/web/flash/index.html
aaah.. SSD’s make photoshop usable again!