Design

Link: TileMill coming to Windows

January 17, 2012

Catching up on some news from last week. I’m really happy to see that TileMill will be able to run natively on Windows sometime in the next few months. I work on a Mac both at home and at work, but Windows is still the standard for our organization, so this should make it easier [...]

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Link: TileMill 0.6.0 released

October 26, 2011

The stuff I’m most excited about: Sqlite improvements – We are now using Sqlite in place of shapefiles in some of our TileMill projects. Why? Shapefiles have restrictions on field length, etc. Sqlite files don’t. OS X desktop app – I already ran TileMill using the Google Chrome “Canary” build, but this will allow me [...]

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Hiring another web map developer

October 24, 2011

We are looking to hire another web map developer to help us build out the NPMap framework and work on various NPS and partner web mapping projects. If you know of any experienced JavaScript developers in the Denver area who are looking for work, please let them know about the position. We also really appreciate [...]

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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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Development Seed is making it easier to create and serve tiles and maps

April 26, 2011

Interesting news today in the world of web mapping: Development Seed, a company that works primarily in the international development space, announced that they are releasing two new commercially-focused products: a hosted TileStream service and a TileMill/TileStream appliance that is mobile and can be deployed behind corporate firewalls. If you don’t know much about TileMill [...]

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Cappuccino Atlas

February 24, 2009

I just read on Ajaxian that the Cappuccino team announced Atlas, a new “visual layout editor and development environment”, today at the Future of Web Apps conference in Miami. I heard Atlas mentioned (not by name) by a member of the Cappuccino team, Ross Boucher while attending a Cappuccino bootcamp session at Web Directions North [...]

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Attending Web Directions North

February 2, 2009

I’ll be at the Web Directions North conference here in Denver today through Thursday of this week. If you haven’t heard about the conference yet, take a look at the schedule at the conference site. There are some great workshops and sessions, with some presenters that I highly recommend seeing. And, oh yeah, there is [...]

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ArcGIS JavaScript Extension for Microsoft Virtual Earth Bug: Cannot Dynamically Draw Polyline or Polygon in Internet Explorer 7

January 22, 2009

UPDATE: This was a bug. I reported it to ESRI, and they have fixed it in the latest release (1.3) of Virtual Earth JavaScript extension. Funny, I’m not sure if anyone is even using the extension, as there was a major lack of response about this issue in the ESRI forums. Are you using it? [...]

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A Few Nifty Corners ‘Gotchas’

May 19, 2007

I’m sure most of you who, like me, hate using tables in your web design already know about Alessandro Fulciniti’s wonderful Nifty Corners. If you don’t, a quick summary (or you can find all the information you need at the creator’s website): Nifty Corners is a set of javascripts and some associated css that, when [...]

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Helpful CSS Resources

July 30, 2006

I have been learning Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) as I go while working on this site. They have saved me much time and grief; I can’t believe that I ever did any design without them! While learning, I have run into a number of helpful resources scattered across the net. Here they are, in no [...]

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