Reviewing Google AppEngine for Java (Part 1)

When Google announced that Java is the second language that the Appengine will support I almost didn’t believe it given the surge of the new languages and the perception that Java entered legacy but the JVM is a powerful tried-and-true environment and Google saw the potential of using it for what it is bound to… Continue reading Reviewing Google AppEngine for Java (Part 1)

Selecting location data from a spatial database

I have been thinking to write about this subject a while back when project Spincloud was still under development. I was even thinking about making this the first post on my blog. The idea is simple: you have location-based data (POIs for instance) stored in some database (preferably a spatial DB) and now you want… Continue reading Selecting location data from a spatial database

Spincloud Labs: Political boundaries overlay in Google maps (Part 2)

Update Sep.21.2011: I took the code in the two parts 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! In Part 1 we imported world political borders into a database table. In this second… Continue reading Spincloud Labs: Political boundaries overlay in Google maps (Part 2)

Spincloud Labs: Political boundaries overlay in Google maps (Part 1)

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… Continue reading Spincloud Labs: Political boundaries overlay in Google maps (Part 1)

@Meteo_alarm twitter stream now available

  =   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… Continue reading @Meteo_alarm twitter stream now available

@BreakingNewsOn map

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… Continue reading @BreakingNewsOn map