http://crschmidt.net/blog Ramblings of a GIS Hacker Tue, 01 May 2012 05:29:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The OpenLayers that everyone knows today, born in what seems like the dawn of time of the modern Javascript age, was not born of whole cloth. The early development of OpenLayers recorded in our SVN history represents some of the very very early work in OpenLayers as it is today, ... http://crschmidt.net/blog/archives/583/deep-dark-openlayers-history/ OpenLayers testing for new users was always felt a bit odd at things like code sprints: because the OpenLayers tests use XMLHttpRequest, Popup windows, and the like, there was always an issue of a few tests that would fail outside of being run on an HTTP server. For a product ... http://crschmidt.net/blog/archives/581/python-simplehttpserver-openlayers-testing/ Occasionally, I think back to when we started writing OpenLayers, and some of the tools we didn't have when I started programming JavaScript. Then I feel old, and start to yell at kids to get off my lawn. In May of 2006, when we started working on OpenLayers:Internet Explorer was 63% ... http://crschmidt.net/blog/archives/578/get-off-my-lawn-how-maps-js-have-changed/ In 2002, I got an account on LiveJournal. In order to help my friends get accounts, I started doing LiveJournal support. (I got 5 support points in my first week, which was a reasonably big deal back then. (Warning: Reading other posts from that era of my life is not ... http://crschmidt.net/blog/archives/576/simple-mistakes-in-getting-started-in-open-source-dev/ This weekend, I sat down and got comfy with Scalatron, a programming tutorial based around building a competitive bot in a game environment in Scala. At first, I was a bit stymied; with no Java-friendly IDE, and the instructions being really IDE targeted, I had some problems getting my development environment ... http://crschmidt.net/blog/archives/573/scalatron-rough-approach-and-running-code/ "When a junior developer has decided they need to build a whole new framework to solve a relatively simple problem, and they’ve started building it instead of fixing the problem, that’s an unpleasant surprise. When they’ve a week in to it, and have been making difficult-to-undo changes to support it, ... http://crschmidt.net/blog/archives/569/picture-hanging/ So, in general, I've avoided multithreaded processing; it's one of those things that historically has been tricky to get right, and I don't typically have embarrassingly parallel problems. Today, however, I was parsing a set of 25,000 HTML files using BeatifulSoup, to pull out a small set of data (~500 ... http://crschmidt.net/blog/archives/565/multiprocessing-is-cool/ One revelation I had yesterday, when participating at BarCamp is... I still actually care about maps. Now, those people who observe me probably know this. Although I have moved out of the map creation business -- my day job is no longer hacking on OpenLayers, though amusingly, I actually end up ... http://crschmidt.net/blog/archives/563/revelation-i-still-care-about-maps/ These days, the things I do have changed pretty drastically from what they were a couple years back. Since I'm attending BarCampBoston this weekend, I figured I should make a So, here's a collection of things I know and do:Django: I have worked with Django since long before 1.0, using ... http://crschmidt.net/blog/archives/561/things-i-do/ My daughter was recently accepted to the Emma Willard School. I'm glad for her getting the opportunity to be in a welcoming, academically rigorous all-girls environment, with what seems to be a huge dedication to fine arts. I think that it will be an excellent environment for her, and ... http://crschmidt.net/blog/archives/558/emma-willard/