Comments for Technical Ramblings

Comment on Bluetooth Not Available — Fixed by ColinP

ColinP — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:30:23 +0000

Macbook Pro 15″, Latest system X. Same problem of the BT becoming unavailable spontaneously in the middle of a bunch of work. Not sure if this is the same as others have reported, but sounds similar. This happens every few days to me - of all the things I have tried, it always seems to get fixed if you shut down, disconnect power, and hold power button down for 10-20 seconds until it makes a noise…..then restart at it seems to be fine for a few more days. Why they cannot fix it? Who knows…

Comment on Bluetooth Not Available — Fixed by Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:28:10 +0000

Chalk another one up for me. My black Macbook has working BT again!

Comment on Bluetooth Not Available — Fixed by Matthew Saleski

Matthew Saleski — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:07:31 +0000

Apple fu*king sucks… they have NO support.. this issue keeps happening with zero resolution.

Comment on Haiti Crisis Map Effort by Sophia Parafina

Sophia Parafina — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:37:32 +0000

The volunteers at Mission 4636 ad myself thank you for all the great work.

Comment on How KML Succeeds and Fails as a Web Format by Jason Birch

Jason Birch — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:39:02 +0000

GZip/Deflate encoded KML may “work” with Google Earth but only, if I understand correctly, because Google Earth isn’t sending an appropriate accept-encoding header and is getting served uncompressed content instead. If this has changed recently, I’d LOVE to know about it.

Although KMZ (zip) is sub-optimal, and a pain in the ass for developers, it’s also a necessary evil for performance in many use cases. For instance, while I use KML for individual resources, any query that has the potential to return hundreds of rows uses a KMZ representation.

Comment on How KML Succeeds and Fails as a Web Format by Richard Fairhurst

Richard Fairhurst — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:50:33 +0000

“web-based tools — like the Javascript support in browsers — lose all access to the data”

There’s a popular ActionScript 3 unzip library which is being used for .kmzs, so it’s not quite all. In general, though, yes, I’d agree.

Comment on How KML Succeeds and Fails as a Web Format by Sean Gillies

Sean Gillies — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:57:36 +0000

The EPUB of the “GeoWeb”?

Comment on How KML Succeeds and Fails as a Web Format by Keyur

Keyur — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:27:42 +0000

I concur. But as you mentioned - it’s too late in the game to ‘Free you KML’.

The web at large lives and dies by the goods and bads of HTML and JavaScript. And the geoweb with KML and KMZ.

Comment on How KML Succeeds and Fails as a Web Format by Peter Rushforth

Peter Rushforth — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:47:25 +0000

KML isn’t well linked - how do you link to a specific placemark? Maybe that is just a function of the user agent behaviour, but the “geoweb” browser I’ve been using doesn’t support that.

Regarding compression - a very good point - leave the compression / decompression to the web server and client, but then you have to deal with resource (image) references using full URLs, not relative - which might also be related to the geoweb browser behaviour.

Comment on Haiti Crisis Map Effort by Ragi Burhum

Ragi Burhum — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:21:14 +0000

Thanks for the great work!