April 2006

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Projections

We've talked about ways of describing locations, using local, geocentric and geodetic coordinate systems In the case of geocentric and geodetic coordinate systems we've been...

Geodetic Coordinate Systems

There is still a bit more ground work to lay before getting to the fun stuff We've talked about local coordinate systems and geocentric coordinate systems Today, let's talk about...

On Coordinate Systems

If you feel like ending a conversation with a developer then simply bringup the topic of character encodings Or, if you're talking to a GIS wonk, then simply mention coordinate...

GEOS Bindings Maintainer

I seem to have officially inherited the job of maintaining the GEOS language bindings from [Sean](http://zcologiacom/news/165) :) For those who don't know,...

Disappointed in Firefox 1.5

I have to join the ranks of those unhappy with Firefox 15 I've been using Mozilla browsers forever - long, long before Firefox I switched over to Firefox right around the time it...

Updated Rails Plugins

[Tom Fakes](http://blogcraz8com/) was kind enough to point out that the Rails Rest controller and content negotiation plugins I posted a couple of weeks ago can no longer be...

Dynamically Scoped Variables

Just as Peter continues to be amazed by Wikipedia, so do I Today I noticed that David Jenkins, who I used to work with, wrote an article about a programminglanguage called Magik...

Typo Feeds

One of the nice new featues in the HEAD version of Typo is per-category feeds However, it wasn't quite obvious to me how to access them A quick look at...

Rails and HTML and XHTML

Rails support for HTML and XHTML is less than exemplary For some reason, the 111 release considers the application/xhtml+xml mime type to be a synonym for text/html Ummwhy And...

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