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Update Sep.21.2011: I took the code in this post and part deux and made a github project off of it called Gborders. The code is simpler and there are more options to generate the borders overlay based on geographic regions. Happy forks! One thing I needed when designing the Meteoalarm mashup for Spincloud were the political boundaries for all European countries. With them at hand, I would use the polygon overlay from the Coogle API and … read on »

I launched Spincloud on New Year's day. I didn't expect a flood of traffic to hit the site since -let's face it- there was nothing groundbreaking. Spincloud was born from my idea of having access to the world weather in one step or less and I'm pleased with the results so far. Spincloud gains adoption every day and this is only due to the people that saw something new and exciting in it. There are blog … read on »

  =   Update Nov.25.2009: The twitter name has changed to @meteo_alarm. Please update your bookmark or follow list. Between code refactoring and cooking new ideas, I took some time to add a new feature to Spincloud. Inspired by the crowd-sourced weather updates triggered by really bad snow storms in the UK, I (finally) started to see the advantages to using Twitter. So I took the Meteoalarm data that I mashed-up on Spincloud's map and streamed it to Twitter. So … read on »

I'm a bit of a news junkie and when I heard that a twitter stream called @BreakingNewsOn existed I did the natural geekish thing, mash it up. Yahoo pipes was my friend here. I haven't used the Pipes before but that didn't quite matter, Yahoo did a great job keeping this playgroundsy product in the child realm so even a caveman could do it. The mashup result -two pipe connections later- is beyond the link: http://pipes.yahoo.com/newsplore/breakingnewson

I just installed Google Earth on my mac. It went smooth, the software was installed under Applications but when I launched it I got this: The application Google Earth quit unexpectedly. Hit the Report button and got: Library not loaded: /usr/lib/libcurl.3.dylib  Referenced from: /Applications/Google Earth.app/Contents/MacOS/libge_net.dylib Reason: image not found I actually upgraded libcurl a while ago and to 7.19.0 and I now only have /usr/lib/libcurl4.dylib libcurl.3.dylib version is gone.  The solution I found was to create … read on »

I've considered myself a Java guy (that's before I recently started with Ruby). I've stumbled upon Java in 1998 and fell in love with it at first sight. I remember quite crisply my first encounter of the third kind with Hello World. But I confess, I only learned about java.lang.Void yesterday. I was digging through the SwingWorker concepts and as I went through the tutorial I was intrigued by a mention about the Void type … read on »