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Map A Path

emily — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:43:21 +0000

At my current job, I do some GIS specific UI work and recently needed to display a path of some generated longitude and latitude points on a map. Simple to do with a map client like OpenLayers, but I thought I would look online to see if someone had a page that would let you drop in a path of lon/lat values and display them. I just needed to confirm some generated data.

Did a quick search and did not see anything, so I made a quick test to do it and thought I would share in case someone else needed it.

Here you go! Map A Path

Weber Mandolin

emily — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:00:26 +0000

I started playing the mandolin about 2 years ago after picking up a very cheap instrument from a local shop. It was find to get started on this instrument, but nothing I’d want to play in public. After looking around at various models in my price range (which wasn’t much) I decided I wanted to save up and by a Weber mandolin. However, I did not have even close to the amount needed for even the lowest model they made. While looking around for more information I went to their website… and boy did it need work. It had a ton a issues.. broken links.. huge lists of centered text (can you say 1995? I knew you could!) and much more.

This gave me an idea… I could design a website for Weber and offer to complete it in exchange for a Weber mandolin. I thought that if I presented a strong prototype of the site they would take me seriously and consider the offer. I spent about two weeks working on the page and emailed a link to them.

Well, they really liked it! But much to my dismay, they had recently contracted with a local company to start working on a brand new website. As a consolation, they offered to sell me a Weber mandolin at wholesale price.. unfortunately I still couldn’t afford it. Though I eventually did find a used Weber mando for a decent and affordable price. I am very pleased with my purchase.

Here is a link to the prototype I setup. Thought I would share as I really liked the way it turned out.

Weber Prototype

-Fred

adLib

fred — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 01:20:54 +0000

Currently, my primary duties involve writing the webapp for our core product, adLib. The client side UI is currently written with OpenLaszlo (xml markup language that compiles JS and/or flash client apps) and is back-ended with Java servlets. The entire system is used to capture video from various sources (primarily unmanned areal vehicles like the Predator) and provide that video back in small chunks thru a search interface. If you want some more (marketing) information check out the EchoStorm website at www.echostorm.net

Here are some screenshots of my UI specific work on the project.

JavaOne

fred — Sat, 03 May 2008 05:12:20 +0000

Well, I got to go to JavaOne last year and I had a blast. The conference, which is always top-notch, is a great place to get re-energized about technology and software development. I’m not a writer so I won’t go into great detail but it was both fun and very informative at the same time. My co-workers all went out each day and met at various times to compare notes on sessions, technology and of course.. where to get the best free t-shirts from the vendor floor. Got to see some really cool previews of Java FX, some 3d game engine stuff and much more.

Here are my pics from the conference itself: http://picasaweb.google.com/monkeytroy/JavaOne08Conference

Besides all the great knowledge we obtained, we got to spend several nights eating out at various places in San Francisco including the best stinkin pastry shop in the world.. Mara’s Italian Pastries. (503 Columbus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94133, (415) 397-9435‎). I think after the first time we went there every night for cannolies, cookies and more! If you are in the bay area, you MUST stop by there. It is worth it.

The last day the conference ended and we all booked it back to the wharf where we did a bike trip over the Golden Gate bridge. Man it was cool! Ended up on the other side in Sausalito where we ferried back to the wharf. Did I mention it was cool? Oh yea!

Here are pics from the bike excursion.. enjoy! http://picasaweb.google.com/monkeytroy/JavaOne08AfterConfBikeTrip

In case you notice the date, you will see that I am updating this a year later. Did not get to go this year.. not enough money for extra stuff like that. Maybe we can swing it next year.

-Fred

WoW!

fred — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:49:38 +0000

I havent played World of Warcraft for a long while now. Had a lot of fun while I played though.. here are some of my fav screen caps from playing.

Game Shots

fred — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:37:11 +0000

Ran across these screenshots from some LAN party games from a while back. Still get a chuckle out of them…

Font Manifest

fred — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:24:40 +0000

Font Manifest is a simple program that lets you browse the fonts on your system, print a list of all the fonts or selected fonts, or print a single font list which shows a font in multiple size.

Program is short, sweet and free. There are lots of font display programs out there now.. but hey, you might like mine best!

Download here: fontmanifest

Early Learning Center

fred — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:17:26 +0000

A site I did for a friends daycare service. The Early Learning Center in Chesapeake, Va. The design was actually created by my brother-in-law Matt and passed to me as a static image. I split the image and implemented the page based on the design idea. The site is also based on TextPattern, which I was really happy with. It allows the customer to manage their site content without knowing anything about web technologies and lets me, as the admin, make design changes remotely with little difficulty.

Virginia CAD Services

fred — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:14:28 +0000

A very simple site I setup for my brother’s drafting service company. The site is based on TextPattern and the ’style’ is custom for his company.

jChat

fred — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:59:07 +0000

jChat was another application I wrote while at the US Courts. It was a simple chat program based around the ASTA client/server components. I was not tasked to write it but did it more as a short technology test of ASTA and because at the time we were all locked out of AOL and MSN messaging programs.

I think I wrote it in a few days and then bit by bit enhanced it over a year or so. It worked well, but I never really put enough time in it to make it anything super special. It was replaced a few years later by an open source jabber client/server setup.

Screenshot!