More signs of the decline of Flash

September 9, 2011

According to .appendTo(), jQuery is now deployed on more sites than Flash, via John Gruber. And Adobe seems to be throwing in the towel (or finally facing reality?), via MG Siegler. I still think there is a market for Flash, but the number of use cases that require or are best addressed by Flash is [...]

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Link: Updated documentation for MapBox’s Wax

August 27, 2011

NPMap now supports TileStream layers, and when the only layers you bring into a web map are TileStream layers, NPMap automatically uses the Modest Maps JS baseApi with Wax. The integration is still a work-in-progress (hence the limited documentation), but we are close to deploying a large number of web maps for a few NPS [...]

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Running out of space on your VMware Fusion virtual machine?

August 3, 2011

I was, and I had a really hard time figuring out how to bring it back online. You see, VMware Fusion doesn’t handle running out of disk space gracefully; it just pauses the virtual machine and won’t let you get back in until disk space is freed up. On top of this, and this is [...]

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Link: Adobe’s New HTML5 Tool Is Web-Designer Duct Tape

August 2, 2011

I get it, but I don’t like it. Developers/designers shouldn’t learn tools. They should learn how to write standards-compliant code on their own.

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Setting up TileMill on an Amazon EC2 Ubuntu instance

July 26, 2011

The NPMap team has been utilizing TileMill more and more over the last couple of months to develop tile sets for our web maps. Why TileMill? The tiles are good looking, and when we deploy them to our hosted TileStream we get interactivity and tile compositing out-of-the-box. This really helps enhance the 1) usability and [...]

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Bye bye, Firefox

July 14, 2011

I’ve officially stopped using Firefox for web development. I’m saying bye to slow start up times and high memory usage! I mean, how can you compete with Chrome’s developer tools? Just look at that array of objects!

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Live preview Markdown from any text editor

July 13, 2011

A clever little Mac app that monitors your Markdown file, as you work on it in real-time, and gives you an instant preview of it. We are now writing all of NPMap’s help documentation (which still needs a ton of work, so don’t hate!) in Markdown, so I’m sure I’ll be using this app several [...]

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Pandora going Flash-free

July 12, 2011

Is there a single company still building new products on Flash or Silverlight? OK, let me qualify that. Is there a single company with a large user base that is still building new products on Flash or Silverlight?

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The top 10 open source fonts

July 12, 2011

What? Open source fonts? There are some great looking ones out there.

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Finally a new version of Espresso

June 29, 2011

Espresso is hands-down my favorite editor for writing websites. I work in a Windows environment for the National Park Service, so I find myself working in Windows (via VMWare Fusion) and Visual Studio 2010 quite often. But anytime I can get out of the ASP.NET world, I switch almost immediately over to Espresso and its [...]

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