Technology

Link: Adobe officially kills Flash Player for mobile, says HTML5 is ‘the best solution’

November 9, 2011

It’s official. The world is about to end.

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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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Link: Google Maps and WebGL

October 16, 2011

Glad to see that Google is still pushing the envelope.

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‘He Changed the Way Each of Us Sees the World’

October 5, 2011

Michelle and I are saddened to learn of the passing of Steve Jobs. Steve was among the greatest of American innovators – brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it. By building one of the planet’s most successful companies from his garage, he [...]

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Piling on Flash

September 15, 2011

I really don’t mean to pile on, but there is a lot of noise today about this announcement from Microsoft: Running Metro style IE plug-in free improves battery life as well as security, reliability, and privacy for consumers. Plug-ins were important early on in the web’s history. But the web has come a long way since [...]

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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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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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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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How does Windows 8 compare to iPad?

June 3, 2011

John Gruber: “The ability to run Mac OS X apps on the iPad, with full access to the file system, peripherals, etc., would make the iPad worse, not better. The iPad succeeds because it has eliminated complexity, not because it has covered up the complexity of the Mac with a touch-based ‘shell’.” This is why [...]

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Data is everything for Google

May 12, 2011

An intriguing piece from “This is my next…” on how Google acts as the gatekeeper between OEMs and the Android operating system. The piece contains excerpts from a slew of documents that were recently released as part of Skyhook Wireless’ “business interference and patent infringement” case against Google. These documents allow us a (very) brief [...]

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