September 12th, 2007 | by Derek | published in Car Tools, Data
So in response to several commenters on my previous post, I went to caspio.com to see about a free 14-day trial in order to test things out. Then I read the Terms of Service, which contains this sentence: “In addition, you may not access the Service for purposes of monitoring its availability, performance or functionality, [...]
July 26th, 2007 | by Derek | published in Car Tools
Today is my last day at OSCON, which finishes up tomorrow here in Portland. It’s my first time attending and I’ve really enjoyed the sessions and chance to catch up with developer-types from all over. Most of the sessions are, frankly, way above my pay-grade, but there have been a few that are worthy of [...]
April 28th, 2005 | by Derek | published in Car Tools, Mapping
If you thought Google Maps is cool (and it is), feast your eyes on the visual display of Census data at Social Explorer. Backed by the National Science Foundation and the New York Times, it has great functionality to display maps, drill down and even create a slideshow. Really cool stuff.
April 20th, 2005 | by Derek | published in Car Tools, Mapping
Caught a session this afternoon on MySQL’s spatial extension. An Irishman used GIS data and MySQL to create an atlas of Ireland (viewing it requires Adobe’s SVG plugin). Apparently ESRI hasn’t written an SDE for MySQL because it didn’t support stored procedures. But with version 5.0, that’s changed, so perhaps we’ll see an ESRI interface [...]
April 6th, 2005 | by Derek | published in Car Tools
A couple of references out there that I hadn’t seen before:
AutomateExcel, which has tips on extending and using Excel in new and interesting ways. Although, I have enough trouble with XML in databases to try and handle it in a spreadsheet.
A GCN piece entitled “SQL vs. XML in a database world” that explores XQuery, a [...]