Joel Spolsky wrote a classic post back in 2001 titled Don't Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You, which warns that the more abstract a solution to a problem is the less useful...

Its a rare day that a truly good standard comes along Its an even rarer day that the standard get widely adopted So the developers of Atom should stand up and take a bow - not...

I'm happy to say that MapBuzz has entered beta MapBuzz is a social mapping web site - which means that it makes it easy for you to share what you know about a place with your...

Exciting news - now that Peter has left Intergraph he can start up his own blog Peter is one of the best known, and brightest, people in the GIS industry so his blog should...

One reason developers like ActiveRecord is that it automatically generates the SQL needed for querying a relational database Obviously, there are various knobs for controlling...

With a headline like that, this better be good, right I'm excited to announce the speakers for the Mapping Applications on the Web seminar on March 4th at GITA's...

Let's say my last post tempted you to check out libxml's validation functionality However, you work in shop that develops on multiple platforms, including Windows, OS X and...

Web sites based on user generated content need to well let users generate content (obviously you read this blog for its insights!) Except that opens a huge can of worms Some...

One of the great mysteries of sofware development is what is the best way to do it Its just like diets - every year or two the latest fad comes roaring through and everyone...

Last time I talked about my implementation of JavaScript inheritance Since then I've made a number of improvements - its now simpler, faster and easier to use In my post I...