Fauna Cartoon

I have recently helped my friend Greg Bishop get his comic site up and running Fauna Cartoon. Other than taking over hosting duties and creating a quick gwt app to display them; all of the creative design, thought and obviously comic credit goes to Greg. I highly recommend for any animal lover/ general enjoyer of comics. To be honest, I saw a couple and my only thought was, these need to be on the web/cloud/internet/whatever we are calling it these days. I hope you enjoy.

Hello gwt-gis

As my gwt wrapper for esri's js api gwt-esri becomes more and more stable (a relative term), I have added a lot of functionality to what was 'the example project'. This project has itself grown in complexity and functionality. I have thus dubbed it gwt-gis and created it's own google code project (my second!) for the src to live. Please check it out. Feedback is always welcome. I'll try and release a jar soon, though as w/ gwt-esri, living off the trunk is recommended.

Also, always looking for gwt/jsni folks to help out with the gwt-esri library as many of it's components are wrapped but only have (sometimes very) limited testing.



PS. RIP Mr. Jobs.

My website's actually look decent in IE 9

See title. That's really all I have to post.

Last Call For I/O - Games

I just finished a challenge for Last Call for Google I/O after making it to the second round (not sure how, looks like I did very poorly on the test). Anyway, went ahead and made the next 'killer' webapp.... or a quick game that fit the 'order from chaos' description using HTML5. We only had 22 hours, I was sick and I still had to work. But put something together using the canvas tag and an svg of the chrome logo from wikipedia (~6 hours). So without further .... something... I give you Chrome Shuffle. Enjoy.

Sprint 4g

I'm getting 5Mb/s down and 1Mb/s up almost everywhere in downtown Sacramento. Holy. Crap.

First Release of the gwt-esri library

I have pushed the first release of the gwt-esri library. I have chosen to start at 0.5 because 0.4 just sounded depressing and I have actually pushed 4 other jars before this one. I have all the major classes to the Js Api's 2.1 spec and have documented all of the classes. TODO's still include the ServiceArea task, Virtual Earth support (guess I can't be ALL google), as well as better dojo support. Several of the dojo classes are just placeholders at the moment. Finally, I am sure the library full of bugs which I am hoping anyone who actually uses this library helps me find and kick out.

NetCDF to Web 2.0 via THREDDS

Lately I have been working on an extension to THREDDS so you can do OpenDap style queries on NetCDF files but return a JSON format instead. Specifically so you can have a Google Visualization Source JSON format returned. Currently THREDDS allows easy access to OpenDap forms like this, I have created a dataset access form for creating the visualization source query here. This form can be used to create and test queries. I will be working to integrate this form into the THREDDS catalog page as an access type.

We (my lab) are hoping this will be useful for pushing scientific datasets, among other things, to the web as well as adding the ability to quickly create online visualizations for these datasets. The google visualization source json protocol is a simple protocol with an extensive library of widgets behind it. Creating new visualizations in JavaScript or tools such as GWT is relatively easy as well.