Archive for May, 2009

Socorro Moves to New Hardware

Friday, May 15th, 2009

What has two quad core 3GHz 64bit CPUs, sixteen gigs of RAM and makes the Socorro users happy? That would be the new hardware that the Socorro system moved to during a six hour operation on Thursday night. The new hardware was recommended by the folks from the aptly named PostgreSQL Experts,... »

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How Download Day Succeeded

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
How Download Day Succeeded

The Download Day campaign won a People’s Voice Webby Award for online campaigns and a SoFIE award for Most Effective Online Brand Experience. As Mary said, NoBox came up with a great design, and the project was a great success. From where I sat, it was a pretty amazing view. There were many... »

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Geolocation in the Browser

Friday, May 1st, 2009
Geolocation in the Browser

Firefox 3.5 makes it super simple to discover the location of a user on your website  You can read more about it from Doug Turner or the official Mozilla page, but today I want to look at how to use the new API. The following image is a screenshot of geolocation plus Google maps. ... »

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