onsdag den 24. juni 2009

Er Web 2.0 klar til mainstream?

Der burde ligge et enormt potentiale i at gøre borgerservice web 2.0 understøttet ... Tænk om borgerne kunne hjælpe hinanden ...
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Only Danish ...
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[...] Og så tilbage til spørgsmålet i overskriften - ja selvfølgelig er Web 2.0 klar til mainstream. Teknologien, der ligger til grund for meget Web 2.0, er fra slut 1990'erne, så den fejler ikke noget. Spørgsmålet er om din virksomhed er moden til den nye kommunikationsform og om dine kunder ønsker at anvende de muligheder som Web 2.0 tilbyder. Hvis det med nogen sandsynlighed kan godtgøres, at dine kunder i forvejen er involveret i aktiviteter på nettet, som kan sammenlignes med det, som du ønsker at få ud af Web 2.0, så er det bare om at komme i gang. Men hvis din primære kundegruppe ikke har adgang til internettet, og alle tilhører den ældre generation, så skal du nok finde på noget andet at bruge din tid på - men på den anden side, det skal du nok alligevel! [...]
Read more: http://www.computerworld.dk/blog/executive/1895?a=rss&i=0
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OpenLayers 2.8 Final Release

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The OpenLayers Development Team is proud to announce the release of OpenLayers 2.8, the latest stable release of OpenLayers.  The 2.8 release adds a number of important features, the full list of which can be found in the Release Notes, at http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/Release/2.8/Notes. Some of the highlights include:   * Support for multi-layer vector feature selection  * Support for drawing text on vector layers  * Several new controls  * 5 new layer types, including OSM, ArcXML, and more.  * The long-awaited WFS protocol support, and related improvements  ... and many other new features and bug fixes that you can see detailed in the release notes linked above.  For information on possible changes that will need to be made between this version of OpenLayers and previous versions, please look at the Release notes, available at the Release Notes information[1].  [1] http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/Release/2.7/Notes#CompatibilityNotes  Best Regards, --  Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta
Read more: http://openlayers.org/pipermail/users/2009-June/012414.html
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20 Visualizations to Understand Crime

Mange indbrud sker i nærheden af et busstoppested ... Indbrudstyve er enten dovne eller også er de meget miljøbevidste ...
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A report in Denmark showed a higher number of burglaries near bus stops ... Burglars are either lazy or quite enviromentally aware ...
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POSTED BY NATHAN

There's a lot of crime data. For almost every reported crime, there's a paper or digital record of it somewhere, which means hundreds of thousands of data points - number of thefts, break-ins, assaults, and homicides as well as where and when the incidents occurred.

With all this data it's no surprise that the NYPD (and more recently, the LAPD) took a liking to COMPSTAT, an accountability management system driven by data.

While a lot of this crime data is kept confidential to respect people's privacy, there's still plenty of publicly available records. Here we take a look at twenty visualization examples that explore this data.

crimespotting

sf-crimemap

mount-fear

Source: Flowing Data

Read more: http://flowingdata.com/2009/06/23/20-visualizations-to-understand-crime/
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tirsdag den 23. juni 2009

Books about Geostatistics and Spatial Statistics

Imponerende liste over bøger omhandlende Geografi og statestik ...
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Impressive list of books about geostatistics ...
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And the list continues ...
Read more: http://gisandscience.com/2009/06/23/books-about-geostatistics/
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40+ Essential Front End Web Developer Cheat Sheets

Hvad hedder Cheat Sheet på dansk?
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If you know how to cheat start now ...
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Today more or less everyone can put a simple web page together but implementation of professional Web based Application Front Ends is not as simple as some people may think. It is a complex task requiring deep knowledge of several technologies like html, css, javascript, php, etc. In this article you will find essential cheat sheets for the most commen web based technologies that you are likely to use if you’re a Front End Web Developer. First you will find resources covering client side markup and development (html, xhtml, css, javascript, jQuery etc.) and then you will find resoures covering server side development that are to some extent required for Front End Development (php, asp.net, …). Please make sure that you post a comment if you know an important resource that have not been included in the article. I hope you will find this article useful, lets get started! [...]

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Busting the nine myths of cloud computing

Hvad er fup og hvad er fakta?
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There is no such thing as free lunch ...
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By Robert L. Scheier

Wherever you turn, someone's ready to tell (or sell) you something related to cloud computing. Cutting through the myths is essential to deciding whether, when, and how the cloud is right for you. Here's our top list of myths:

Myth No. 1: There's one single "cloud"

Myth No. 2: All you need is your credit card

Myth No. 3: The cloud reduces your workload

Myth No. 4: You can seamlessly blend your private "cloud" (your virtualized datacenter) with public cloud providers

Myth No. 5: You won't ever be able to seamlessly blend your public and private clouds

Myth No. 6. Cloud computing always saves you money

Myth No. 7: A cloud provider can guarantee security

Myth No. 8: If you're running VMs, you're doing cloud computing

Myth No. 9: Cloud computing is about technology

The truth about the cloud What's the takeaway? That the cloud isn't a magic wonderland of carefree computing, but a complex resource that requires understanding and hard work to manage correctly. And that's no myth. [...]

Source: NetWork World

Read more: http://www.networkworld.com/cgi-bin/mailto/x.cgi?pagetosend=/export/home/httpd/htdocs/news/2009/062209-busting-the-nine-myths-of.html&pagename=/news/2009/062209-busting-the-nine-myths-of.html&pageurl=http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/062209-busti
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mandag den 22. juni 2009

The Upcoming Smashing Book

Har sendt en mail til dem om at jeg gerne vil anmelde bogen - nu får vi at se om de bider på ;-)
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Smashing hoping to be reading it for real ...
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Our biggest and most important project of the year, the Smashing Book, has come in swinging. Eleven extensive articles have been written, as decided by our readers. They are at various stages of completion. Creating a book ultimately requires more effort and dedication than online articles because, in the end, nothing can be changed, and readers have to pay for a physical product.

We have tried to keep errors to a minimum; several correction cycles were required: hard times for our proofreader Andrew Lobo. The writing was done (in alphabetical order) by Adelle Charles, Alessandro Cattaneo, Andrew Maier, Chris Spooner, Darius A. Monsef (Colourlovers), David Leggett, Dmitry Fadeyev, Jacob Gube, Jon Tangerine (partial editing), Rene Schmidt, Steven Snell, Sven Lennartz and Vitaly Friedman.

The book will have 313 pages and 11 chapters, printed completely in color.

Also completed are almost a dozen color illustrations created by the Russian designers from the Soft Facade Icon Design Agency, one for each chapter, and the book cover by Brian Nelson that many of us have seen, also chosen by our readers. The back cover of the book will have a little surprise.

The book cover of the upcoming Smashing Book

The book cover, designed by Brian Nelson. Larger version.

Read more: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/06/22/the-upcoming-smashing-book/
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50 Fresh JavaScript Tools That Will Improve Your Workflow

Black und Decker til JS snedkerne ...
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Great tools for the JS developers ...
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JavaScript is an integral part of the RIA revolution. JavaScript allows developers to create rich and interactive web interfaces and establish asynchronous communication with servers for constantly up-to-date data without a page refresh.

Many things that were once accomplished using Flash objects can now be built using JavaScript - with the added benefit that it is free, typically more web and mobile accessible under most circumstances using best practices for development techniques, and without the need to use proprietary software for development.

Though JavaScript has been around for a while, new tools, techniques, and information are constantly being pumped out to continually push the technology into greater heights. In this article, we wish to share with you a huge list of fresh and new tools and resources that JavaScript developers will find useful and informative. [...]

FireUnit

Source: Smashing Magazine

Read more: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/06/21/50-fresh-javascript-tools-that-will-improve-your-workflow/
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Why You Can’t See The Great Pacific Garbage Patch On Google Earth

Hørte om denne gigantiske affaldsspiral på P1 ... Plastik affald som i udstrækning fylder det samme som Texas - USAs største stat ... Forhåbentlig er der nogen som en dag ser en fordel i at 'høste' og genanvende det ... Dyrelivet lider ...
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I heard of the gigantic plastic waste spiral on the radio ... So much plastic that would cover all of Texas - the largest state in th US ... Hopefully somebody one day will see the advantage of 'harvesting' and reusing this giant waste ... Animal life is suffering ...
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by Danny Sullivan

After hearing about the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” earlier this year — an area the size of Texas in the Pacific Ocean filled with trash — I went looking for it on Google Earth. And never found it. It’s not that the patch doesn’t exist. It’s just that despite being large, it’s not that visible from above.

I was disappointed in Google at first, for not having images of the patch. After all, the company made a big splash with Google Ocean earlier this year, a way to see more about the majority of our planet that’s covered with water. But while Google Earth is good for seeing under the ocean, why can’t I see more of what’s on top, such as this huge collection of garbage? [...]









Read more: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/oceans/pollution/trash-vortex
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Ross Racine

Det ville være så nemt at klippe klistre fra ortofotos, vride lidt i et tegneprogram og vupti ... Jeg gjorde det samme da jeg arbejdede på en forside til Geoforums jubilæumsudgave ... det endte dog en med en helt anden ide ...
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I would have been so much easier just to clip from an aerial photo and twist it in photoshop ... I did the very same thing when designing a front cover for a Danish GIS magazine ... It did however end up with something complety different ;-)
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Surprisingly, Ross Racine’s artwork is drawn freehand on a computer; “my works do not contain photographs or scanned material,” he says, but you’d be hard pressed to tell. “The subjects of my recent work may be interpreted as models for planned communities as much as aerial views of fictional suburbs, referencing the computer as a tool for urban planning as well as image capture. Investigating the relation between design and actual lived experience, the works subvert the apparent rationality of urban design, exposing conflicts that live beneath the surface. [...]
Source: The Map Room
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