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All that’s great about CoffeeScript in 40 characters

Posted on Wednesday 29 October 2014 by george

Today, I needed a JavaScript equivalent of Ruby’s Array#compact (which returns the array stripped of any nil values). A standard JavaScript implementation looks like this: Array.prototype.compact = function() { var x, _i, _len, _results; _results = []; for (_i = 0, _len = this.length; _i < _len; _i++) { x = this[_i]; if (x != […]

CoffeeScript, JavaScript

Spindlytext: write in the sky with the Google Earth API

Posted on Wednesday 2 May 2012 by george

I’ve just released Spindlytext on Github. It’s the library that powers the live data display in Pigeon Sim, by creating KML linestrings in the shape of letters. It looks like this:

CoffeeScript, GIS, Google Earth, JavaScript, KML

A depthcam? A webkinect? Introducing a new kind of webcam

Posted on Friday 3 February 2012 by george

Update, 10 February: Sorry for some serious reliability issues over the last few days. The streaming server is now hosted in-house at CASA, which should be a lot more robust. At CASA we’ve been looking at using a Kinect or three in our forthcoming ANALOGIES (Analogues of Cities) conference + exhibition. We’ve been inspired in […]

CoffeeScript, WebGL, WebSockets

Overlapping markers on your Google Map? Meet OverlappingMarkerSpiderfier

Posted on Wednesday 22 June 2011 by george

Ever noticed how, in Google Earth, marker pins that overlap each other spring apart gracefully when you click them, so you can pick the one you meant? And ever noticed how, when using the Google Maps API, the exact same thing doesn’t happen? This…

CoffeeScript, GIS, JavaScript