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What Doesn't Stay in Vegas?

13 March, 2012
- 1 min read

Today, and thanks to a colleague, I found this great video about how the Las Vegas city has grown in the past years. When Landsat 5 launched on March 1, 1972, Las Vegas was a smaller city. This image series, done in honor of the satellite's 28th birthday, shows the desert city's massive growth spurt since 1972. The outward expansion of the city is shown in a false-color time lapse of data from all the Landsat satellites.

Scale-adaptative Projection

08 March, 2012
- 1 min read

Take a look to this awesome exercise from the Oregon State University:

Dojo + OpenLayers = New Challenges

23 January, 2012
- 8 min read

Recently, the new Dojo 1.7 was released with many improvements and important changes. As a developer, I'm pleased to work with Dojo on RIA application because simple reasons: </html> // Create a map instance var map = new dojox.geo.openlayers.Map('map'); map.fitTo([-10,30,40,62]); // Add to the GFX layer gfxLayer.addFeature(feature); gfxLayer.redraw(); }; var graphFeature1 = new dojox.geo.openlayers.WidgetFeature(descr1); gfxLayer.addFeature(graphFeature1); }; var graphFeature2 = new…

Presentation tools in the browser

05 January, 2012
- 2 min read

With the arrival of HTML5+CSS3 the browsers are getting more attention because the new possibilities. One example of the possibilities are the proliferation of frameworks, tools and libraries to create HTML presentations to run in the browser. No need to transform your presentation from PowerPoint or Keynote to any portable format, the content is plain HTML.

Filling Flexigrid with JSON/XML data

09 December, 2011
- 1 min read

Flexigrid is one of the most useful and powerful grid plugins for jQuery. Unfortunately, as the author explains in the project page, there is no much documentation so you must learn how to use it looking at existing code. If anytime you need to fill a Flexigrid with JSON or XML content and you are a little buggy to look at example code, here is the great summary:

Greedy and Nongreedy Matching in a Regular Expression

19 November, 2011
- 1 min read

This questions has come to me many times so it is time to write a post that acts as a reminder.

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