Because my crap has to live somewhere
In my GIS work, I use OpenStreetMap as my source of road map information. It was better documented and better labeled than the data that I was getting from the MNDOT. Though OSM has been great to me, it hasn't come without its flaws. In my work, I rely on …
I had the unfortunate experience of finding out what happens when minivans and Ford Foci collide in August of this year. My car got nailed (read: totaled), so I got thrown into the market for a new car. The Focus had always served me well (I've owned two of them …
In my last post, I wrote about the Linode that I won as a door prize at the Central PA Open Source Conference. After the initial setup, I wasn't quite sure what to do with it. After some thought, it hit me: I'll move my GIS project to the cloud …
I recently had a recruiter ask me for some PHP code samples. After doing some digging, I realized that I didn't have much to show. Most of the cool stuff that I wrote was proprietary, so I couldn't just expose it. The stuff that I've written for myself has been …