For MapBuzz, we use a popular open source project called Trac for managing our bugs, feature requests, release schedules, etc  As long as you don't have complex...

In preparation for getting back to this blogging thing, a couple of weeks ago I toyed with changing my blogging software from Typo to WordPress  I originally chose Typo for...

Well, it wasn't quite in the same league as 62-36, but a victory over Nebraska is always cause for celebration  Here's Mike, my brother, and I in the south stands of Folsom...

Peter wrote a good post last month about the power of links It strange to be evangelizing links over ten years into the Web revolution, but in an ironic twist, what the...

As many of you know, I'm a big fan of Atom, including both the syndication format and publishing protocol At Foss4g, I gave a talk that argued that Atom offers a better solution...

Before Sunday's World Series game, Lauren and I did a bit of pumpkin carving to get ready for Halloween To keep with the spirit of the day, I went with a Rockies logo And since...

Boston Red Sox versus Colorado Rockies Time for Lauren, one of my best friends and lifelong Sox fan, to make it to Denver for a World Series weekend We scored two tickets off...

Like most American male teenagers, I loved baseball When I discovered Bill James' incomparable Baseball Abstract in 1983 it was like finding a slice of heaven The Baseball...

I had no intention of getting involved in the proprietary versus open source versus free software war But Tom asked an excellent question in response to my article exploring if...

Today I discovered a really interesting blog, Spatial Law, written by Kevin Pomfret Kevin commented on my last post about open source and Google maps, and pointed out that the...

Since returning from FOSS4G, I've been nagged by a question in the back of my mind - can open source succeed in the geospatial world Now you might think I've lost my mind...

Foss4g 2007 witnessed the birth of a new Google Group - GeoRuby Like I talked about last week, when we started MapBuzz the Ruby and Mapping community could be counted on one hand...

Wilhelm Chung had a nice followup to my post last week about Rails Unusual Architecture He provides more details about how alias_method_chain works and even includes a few...

Back when I started MapBuzz, there was so little work being done in the open source geospatial world with Ruby and/or Rails that Sean even commented on it Geospatial was the...

Let's continue our on-again, off-again series about making Rails better We've talked about fixing ActiveRecord's awkward handling of attributes, implementing RESTful error...

Its been over a year since I blogged about GEOS, an open source project that provides rich functionality for analyzing and manipulating geometries and is a key part of...

Ealier this week, Yue was interviewed by Christine Lu on The China Business Show Christine does a great job of interviewing people who are experts on doing business in China,...

As I've mentioned a number of times, I'm a big fan of Atom and the Atom publishing protocol and believe they will become the lingua franca of Web Services, including spatial web...

There has been surprisingly little written about how Rails is implemented If you Google for "architecture Rails" you'll find plenty of articles that describe Rails as a web...

How neat, Matz linked to my article about fixing architecture flaws in ActiveRecord Of course I was curious to see what he said, so I ran his comments through online...