October 18th, 2008 by NerdyNick
So for all of you who managed to come see me give my Memcached Presentation. I figured I would provided to you all the links to the resources that I presented to you.
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October 17th, 2008 by NerdyNick
I just found out about this and figured I would share it with you all. Zillow has put 7,000+ Neighborhood Boundary shapes into the Creative Commons for use anywhere. You can download it all here
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August 31st, 2008 by NerdyNick
So for all those who missed it Kevin Rose (Founder of Digg.com) and Daniel Burka (Lead Designer of Pownce) where in Boulder last night. So to share with you the fun of last night here are a couple of pictures that my good buddy Erin took.
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May 14th, 2008 by NerdyNick
So about 2 years ago I made a post on the “Top Reasons Why Mac’s Suck” at the old Blog website. Now yes a lot of what was posted here original is very out of date, but that is not the point. The point I am trying to make is that this posted was made 2 years ago and for some reason I still manage to get hits and comments. I just can’t believe that this simple post “that I made late at night” still manages to get this much attention.
If you’ve got anything to added to the discution please feel free to do so.
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October 25th, 2007 by NerdyNick
So got some awesome news. My Virtual Earth Real Estate mash-up was listed on the homepage of dev.live.com. If you want to check it out I have included a link to a screen shot of it in this post.
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September 29th, 2007 by NerdyNick
Yes I know this is a late post but I’ve been busy playing Halo. So here is what happened at the Release Party.
So here I was the other day sitting at work writing some sick code when all the sudden Shipero gives me a call. Saying that he got the info to get into the Halo 3 release party that was last Monday 24th of September. So of course we decided fuck ya where going. In hopes that it was going to be bad ass like the Bioshock release party sounded. So I get the info from him. Get on the website almost immediately and reserve my seat. With in about 2-3hrs all the seats where gone. Where talking about 30 seats available.
So Monday now comes and we’re so pumped to be going and we’re not sure what to expect. We meet up at the Panera Bread down by the Microsoft offices in DTC. Grab a bight to eat and then start to head down the street to there office. Now as we approach where Google Maps says the supplied address is at. We start to look for a big sign saying “Hey Microsoft is in this Building”. Well it turns out there is no sign. Not a single one that say Microsoft or anything. So we had to find it by looking for the numbers on the building or at least see if we can find a bunch of nerds rolling into a building this late at night. Well we found the Nerds first then double checked the building number just to be sure. After all we are in a Tech Center.
So we park the car and head inside. Once we enter the building we start looking for where the Halo party is at. Well of course no sign again. We end up finding where the meeting floor is at and decide to try there. We hope into the elevator at head on up to the 4th floor. Once the doors open we see our first signs of something actual going on. A nice big sign that says “Halo 3 - No Pictures”. We where in the right place.
Now here is where it got fun. They had 5 rooms all hooked up with Xbox 360 Elites all with Halo 3 running on them. We head into the first room sit down and immediately hope into a massive game of Team Slayer. After a couple games of Team Slayer they have everyone come into the middle break area. So they can all talk to us. To which they say that we will be playing games of Halo 3 all night long tell around midnight and that they will be pulling everyone into the center though out the night to do give aways. To which everyone got existed.
Now it may not have been what we where hoping and all with the Bioshock release party being as big as it was but damn was it fun. They ended up giving out some really sick prizes and we ended up playing some sick games of Halo 3 all night.
Prizes:
Its now at this point I should tell you that Shipero walked away with a watch and a USB flash drive that we one from the Halo 3 tournament they had that night. I walked a way with the Forza package that I got in trade for the Guitar Hero 2 package. What can I say I already had Guitar Hero 2 and the guy who won the Forza package really wanted it instead. So what else was I to do.
All in all the whole night was fucking awsome. It got me out of the house and I got to hang out with some more fellow nerds and play some fucking Halo 3. Hell ya.
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August 19th, 2007 by NerdyNick
So I have been doing a lot of research lately looking for some great data to provide to users of my map search application I made a while back. I am hoping to get a lot of this data implemented into the version 2 roll out of the search application. So far I have managed to trace down some very sweet data. That amazingly is provided by the US Government. Who would have thought that some of these organization would keep track of the data and provide it so freely. So in the efferts of help all other out there that would like to use this data for there very own uses as well as so I have a record of where all this data is located. I’m providing a list of links for you all to use.
Heres is the list:
http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/download_data.htm
http://www.usgs.gov/pubprod/
http://geodata.gov
http://www.recreation.gov
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/cob/shape_info.html
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/
Keep checking comments and what not for more to come.
p.s. If you have any links that you wish to share please post a comment with the links. Thanks.
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July 25th, 2007 by NerdyNick
Recently I had the joy of having Microsoft do a write up on my Virtual Earth property search mash-up I did. They contacted The Group Inc about how its helped them out. They looked into how its helped out there customers find there new homes and what they have been liking about the ability to find real estate this way.
You can check out the write up at: http://dev.live.com/blogs/mashups/archive/2007/07/20/125.aspx
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July 16th, 2007 by NerdyNick
Well after trying to install PyXML 0.8.4 on my work computer and having no success do to the fact I don’t have Visual Studio. I have built a Windows Install for all that wish to use PyXML with there Python 2.5 installation.
As many of you will find out the PyXML project is no longer being maintained by the development crew. So finding a binary distribution of PyXML for Python 2.5 is hard. So to help in the struggle I have built the binary distribution for all to download. Please keep in mind this is really the first time I have created a binary installation for Python. So if something doesn’t work I’m sorry. Please comment back to this post and I will see what I can do.
Download: PyXML 0.8.4 for Win32 and Python 2.5
Please enjoy and keep up the Python work.
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June 21st, 2007 by NerdyNick
jsColorPallet Version 2.0 Beta has been released for your enjoyment.
I have gone to a bit of effort to improve on the original version by decrease load times and process times as well as provide better dynamic Web 2.0 style support. You can now add color pallets on the fly as well as add the color pallet to other forms on the fly. I am working on getting some documentation out so that you all may better understand how to use it. Currently the Source Code is pretty well documented (Still needs some more for all the new functions and make updates to old). I hope this new version going forward will allow me to provide better functionality and controls for you all.
Version 2.0 Changes:
Version 1.2 Changes:
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