Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-26

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Jul 262009
 

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-19

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Jul 192009
 
  • RT @scene360 Incredible Projection on Buildings! – Scene 360 Illusion http://is.gd/1Dc4m #
  • Pro Twitter Tips – http://shar.es/dubd #
  • finally managed to get qt4-designer installed for qgis plugin development #
  • RT @webupd8: How Microsoft Sabotages GNU/Linux Adoption in Russian Schools http://bit.ly/8zu88 #linux #
  • RT @ESRIUC: Many graphics you’ve seen around the UC are available to take home. Stop by Hall A today, 2:30–5:30. http://tr.im/sEPN #esriuc #
  • RT @GeoApplications: #ESRIUC ArcGIS Explorer 900 SDK looks very nice and easy. Small interfaces, only 100 classes, much simpler than Arc … #
  • RT @webupd8: Review: 101 Great Enterprise Open Source Apps http://tinyurl.com/mqxjjj #linux #
  • WeatherBug(R) Announces Enhanced Weather Data Feed for Comprehensive Real-Time GIS Intelligence http://tinyurl.com/mb94p2 #
  • Geo-Spatial Solutions in Challenging Economic Times http://tinyurl.com/nopemt #
  • now even groceries get RESTful http://tinyurl.com/o5jcwd #
  • MapFish server development with PHP/symfony documentation now available http://tinyurl.com/mud56t #
  • RT @ESRIUC: Power loss during today's #esriuc plenary damaged our quick capture device. Therefore, web videos will be delayed until Fri. #
  • RT @SharpGIS: See the silverlight / mapit webpart in action in this demo theater session (title is incorrect): http://bit.ly/168fcd #esriuc #
  • all the lucky ones out there at the #esriuc here's a look behind the scenes http://tinyurl.com/ngnmvu #
  • RT @GEOpdx: Thanx to GPS and GIS the 2010 census will be the most thoroughly researched in history, 140,000 handhelds #esriuc #
  • a look at how the G in GIS is becoming Government http://tinyurl.com/l5d4pd #
  • RT @bernszukalski: ArcGIS Explorer at the ESRI UC plenary review part 1: http://bit.ly/UWqLU and part 2: http://bit.ly/bpkHr #esriuc #
  • So many geocommunity #esriuc tweets that I am having a hard time concentrating on anything else #
  • RT @mikehogan: ArcGIS Desktop 9.4 includes an integrated Search functionality (Find Data, GP tools and Analysis) #esriuc #

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Measure Distance on Google Maps

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Jun 142009
 

DISTANCEFROMTO

distancefromto.net

distancefromto.net

Distancefromto is a simple and easy to use Google Maps application that measures distance between two locations on a map. Distance is measured on the fly in miles and kilometers by dynamically dragging markers to desired locations or typing in locations names for the from and to inputs. The application comes with an inbuilt geocoder, so do not limit yourself to places that are well known to the masses..

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FOSSLC

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Jun 112009
 

The Free and Open Source Software Learning Center (FOSSLC), which has its roots tied to the success of OSBOOTCAMP is a non-profit organization with a vision to improve lives with open source. It provides conference information, webcasts, videos and workshops that teach skills with open source software. Besides its mission to educate people who have never heard of open source it aims to get them started with open source development, understand the business of open source and help meet people from the community.

Here are links to some really helpful resources from the website:

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MapFish & OpenLayers Technical Overview

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May 222009
 

OpenLayers has its fair share of reputation as being one of the best and widely implemented (White House’s Delivering on Change using OpenLayers) open source JavaScript library for displaying dynamic map data in a webpage. Although originally developed by MetaCarta, in November 2007 it became a project of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. Written in object-oriented JavaScript, OpenLayers supports a variety of data sources with methods for accessing geographic data such as Web Mapping Service (WMS) and Web Feature Service (WFS) protocols of the OpenGIS Consortium.

MapFish on the other hand is an open source application framework with Server and Client side components for building online mapping applications. The Mapfish Client is built upon OpenLayers for the mapping part, ExtJS and GeoExt for the GUI part. MapFish Server deals with server side functions and can be used with MapServer, GeoServer or MapGuide.

Geoweb Guru outlines the technical aspects of these open source mapping utilities with examples at Technical Overview: MapFish and Technical Overview: OpenLayers

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Get a clean desktop on Ubuntu

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May 182009
 

Be it GNOME or KDE, most Linux power users prefer to have their desktops slick and geeky with screenlets, gadgets, docks or conky. But I on the other hand (cannot call myself a power user) like to keep my Ubuntu desktop clean without any visual clutter by preventing nautilus from drawing  icons. It is only then I believe the true beauty of a wallpaper can be relished.

To treat yourself with a clean desktop, bring up the run application dialog with Alt + F2.

Type gconf-editor to invoke the GNOME configuration editor. Navigate to the key /apps/nautilus/preferences and scroll down to the key show_desktop.  Uncheck the box next to the key under the value column.

show desktop

P.S. : Right-clicking on the desktop is disabled with this setting

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