In a previous post, we had set out to take a pair of latitudes and longitudes and eventually create a map of directions between the two points. We had discussed the process of geocoding the locations and using APIs to …
I have done a number of professional projects where I had the same fairly well defined problem in different domains. The problem boiled down to one of starting with two destinations and programmatically mapping them as part of a larger …
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Being a resident of the Chicago area, I enjoy spending time in our neighboring state of Wisconsin. Especially in summers, I find myself planning and taking a number of road trips to this great state to the north. As I …
OR….. WHERE ARE THESE PEOPLE WHO ARE PLANNING A BASEBALL ROAD TRIP ? I was doing some homegrown analytics for my baseball road trip planner at basesroaded.com. I have the IP address of any visit to the site, so I …
As I mentioning in a previous post , I had a project that required mapping locations, but I wanted to slightly perturb the locations on the map so as to not reveal any of the actual locations on the map, …
I’ve posted this mostly for a reminder for myself, but others may find it helpful. I currently develop any websites ideas I have in Django and host them on Webfaction (which I really like). To my everlasting shame as a …
My Git workflow for Webfaction, Bitbucket and local development in Django Read more »
A friend of mine studies Chinese medicine and had painstakingly entered a decent amount of data into a FileMaker database on his Mac. He wanted some help deploying to a Web based interface and I agreed to help on the …
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I had the need to develop a small system to automatically post Tweets from a database of content. To illustrate such a system , I have begun a Twitter account named @QuotesonData which tweets well known and some lesser known quotes on …
REAL SHORT ANSWER : Like most things in life, it depends. SHORT ANSWER: For a NS street (a street running north-south), there are about .001831 degrees in a standard city block. For an EW street (east-west), there are about .002438 degrees in a …
THINGS EVERYONE ELSE KNEW THAT I JUST LEARNED: The sum of the first n odd integers is . I was reading a Hacker News comment thread and ,as in every other one, someone referred to incompetence among programming interviewees, this time …