Use Yarn in Place of npm
Use Yarn in place of npm: Workflows don’t change; Packages load faster; Consistent node_module structure.
5 Ways to Comment Your JSON
Comments aren’t part of the official JSON specification. According to an old (2012) Google Plus post by Douglas Crockford, he removed them to preserve interoperability. But that same post suggests you can still use comments so long as you remove them through minification before parsing. There are a few other ways to handle JSON comments …
A First Crack at HTML5/JavaScript Game Development
For a while now I’ve been wanting to start writing JavaScript/HTML5 based games for the web. I’ve always been drawn to simple games like the old Asteroids and Galaga where you have a ship and a bunch of bad stuff trying to destroy you. They’re easy to learn, play and waste your time with and …
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Mapping The Dead
A quick search for cemetery mapping software reveals several pages of apps, services and companies with interesting names like Memorial Business systems, CemMapper and The Crypt Keeper.
Why Gulp is Great
The great thing about using Node streams in Gulp is that you don’t have to keep opening and closing files for each task like in Grunt. This lack of i/o overhead makes running a series of tasks very fast.
Why Grunt is Gone From My Build Team Lineup
I was always bothered by how long Grunt took to run through all my tasks and complete my build. It would take 10+ seconds to finish and I would have to sit there waiting to check my latest edits. It can be really hard to develop a piece of code when you are constantly halting your flow.
Search Directory Trees with Python
Here is a simple but powerful way to use Python to search and find all files with a specific extension within a given folder and all of its sub-folders using os.walk(). I use it a lot to find map documents with broken data sources, images that need to be organized or just to get a quick count of …
When Django Met IIS
The Problem: The county I work for had a one page geography quiz with outdated questions and a poorly structured user interface. It was just an unstyled list of select dropdowns and a submit button. The answer page that was returned just listed each question with all the answer choices under them. One answer under each …
Brackets – My New Favorite Code Editor
A couple of months ago I started searching for “the best” code editor for web development. I wanted to see what was out there and how it compared to what I have used and was currently using. Since most of my co-workers live in the .NET world I have access to Visual Studio, which I actually …
Shapefile as a Multi User Editing Environment?
I had a ArcGIS user that I support come to me with a corrupted shapefile the other day. It had the old “number of shapes does not match number of table records” error. It turns out, he’s still using this shapefile as his layer’s main data source and he and several others regularly edit it! …