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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 10:45pm CEST
I’ve been working with an architect on a project in Camden that allowed me to incorporate some of my 3D modeling skills. I firmly believe that incorporating 3D visualization (even if its hand-drawn perspective renderings) is key to any development or planning project. Most people cannot make sense of plan or elevation views. Detailed street sections are completely incomprehensible to the average person. 3D perspectives allow the public to get a better sense of what the physical structure will
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 10:28pm CEST
Mein nächstes Mapping Projekt ist entwas umfangreicher, zum ersten mal in meiner (sehr) kurzen Mapping Geschichte versuche ich nun mein vollkommen eigenes ORPG zu gestalten. Die meisten probleme habe ich beim Save/Load system, was einfach nicht so will wie ich, aber das wird schon noch.
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 9:47pm CEST
We've had icons for a while, allowing you to upload images to decorate maps, features, and your account. Due to popular demand, we've now added the ability to add photos images to features and maps. The maximum pictures size is now 640x640. Unlike the smaller image sizes, this large size isn't cropped to be a square. Thus, nothing will be cut out of the image. Here is what the "Feature Photos" looks like in the feature viewer: Next up is a photo browser, that lets you see browse through p
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 9:13pm CEST
Facebook suspends participation in Google’s Friend Connect May 15th, 2008 This post was updated at 12:51 PM. A post Thursday on Facebook’s developer blog explains that the social network has suspended participation in Google’s “Friend Connect” project, citing a violation of its internal terms of service. “Now that Google has launched Friend Connect, we’ve had a chance to evaluate the technology,” the post by Facebook employee Charlie Cheever read. “We’ve found that it redistributes user i
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 8:56pm CEST
Google’s ReadAir delivers desktop newsfeeds May 15th, 2008 I’ve been looking at quite a few good desktop applications built on Adobe AIR (such as eBay Desktop and Twhirl), and am pleased to report that ReadAir, a Google Reader released on Thursday that is coded to run on Adobe’s cross-platform solution, ranks among them. ReadAir synchronizes with your account to deliver news with a Mac feel. (Credit: CNET Networks) ReadAir mirrors Google Reader’s functionality with a cleaner interface a
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 8:51pm CEST
Interactive Mapping: Taking Advantage of Google May 15th, 2008 Posted in Interactive Mapping | No Comments » When most people think about Google and their real estate websites, they’re immediately going to start thinking about search engine optimization. While that’s important, let’s take a look today at something that’s got people buzzing: interactive mapping for their listings with Google: (source)There’s a new option to search for real estate: click on “show search options” and select “rea
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 8:15pm CEST
Connecting executives (and celebs) with NNDB Mapper May 15th, 2008 NNDB, a directory of important people and celebrities (the two are not exclusive) standing for Notable Names Database, has put together a mapping tool that lets you connect the dots to see how people are intertwined. One example, featured in this demo video, shows the overlap of board members for large tech companies, including Apple, Intel, Yahoo, and Microsoft. You can use the tool to figure out who’s worked where, then
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 8:14pm CEST
White Nationalist Raises Ugly Head Again Posted on May 15, 2008 by Tariq Nelson As some of you may know, last year a white nationalist organization by the name of SANE wrote a lying hit piece on the Dar Al-Hijrah community that contained many outright lies and distortions. However, since I exposed their lies and uncovered their openly white supremist views, they have been dormant and have not similarly attacked any other Muslim organizations with their paranoid filth as they promised. People
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 8:08pm CEST
Over the past couple of days Urban Mapping has put out press releases saying that it now has neighborhood maps/boundaries for “40,000 neighborhoods in 2,000 U.S. cities and towns. This is in addition to 10,000 neighborhoods in Canada and Europe.” It also has detailed data for 53 transit systems across the US. (Here’s more discussion/explanation on the Urban Mapping blog.) This is tons and tons of data. Google Transit covers a somewhat smaller area of the US but has more international covera
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 8:03pm CEST
Bei tagesschau.de gibt es ja seit geraumer Zeit den Nachrichtenweltatlas. Der Westen arbeitet ebenfalls mit einer Verortung seiner Inhalte und setzt dabei auf die (meiner Beobachtung nach eher leidliche Beteiligung seiner User). Eine Nummer größer will der Dienstleister Metacarta ansetzen. Im Google-News-Stil scannt er den Output anderer Websites und verortet die Artikel. Das Angebot ist auch bisher eher mäßig. Die Firma dahinter setzt auf künftige Kunden, denen sie ihre Software verkaufen kann
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 7:30pm CEST
On the C7Y website, a new tutorial has been posted from Nate Abele (following his previous CakePHP-related article) covering the use of the framework to create a REST web service and manage resources inside of it. read more
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 7:05pm CEST
Bubble 2.0 Watch: Aggregation site Brijit shuts down May 15th, 2008 Brijit.com, an aggregation site that summed online news stories and other content up in 100 words or fewer for quick consumption, has shut its doors. The shutdown is ideally temporary, the site’s management said Thursday, but a placeholder on the front page admitted that Brijit “is out of money and can no longer afford to bring you the world in 100 words.” A post on Brijit’s blog by CEO and Editor In Chief Jeremy Brosow
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 7:00pm CEST
Forget-me-not service Kwiry adds photo nagging May 15th, 2008 Kwiry, the memory-saving tool I wrote about back in December, has just put out a useful update for people who don’t like to type. Users can now send photos to their Kwiry stream in hopes of digging up a search for it later. The company is hoping people will use this to catalog things they come across in everyday life, and bookmark them for later like people do with links on services like Delicious and Magnolia. Kwiry’s creators
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 6:59pm CEST
Walkable urbanism is the new buzzword in community planning and development. Websites are dedicated to neighborhood walks, the brookings institute has a collection of several articles by Chris Leinberger, and now you can even check the walkable score of your own neighborhood. [Image: Walkable urbanism is a new trend in the popular perception of neighborhoods. [...]
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 6:53pm CEST
In the post “Assessment 101,” I mentioned that Scott Eichelberger and his ilk get a lot of grilling while staffing the 3TIER booth, and not just about the location of the restrooms, or which booths give away the best tchotchkes. People want to know how our method, numerical weather prediction (NWP), compares to other techniques. Many of our competitors are using a method called measure, correlate, predict, or MCP. Here’s the skinny on some key differences between the two. (more…)
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 6:00pm CEST
Yahoo beckons coders to gussy up search results May 15th, 2008 Yahoo on Thursday will take one of its first big steps to make its site a more vital part of the Internet. The company will offer developer tools to let programmers start using SearchMonkey, technology to make search results more elaborate and, the company hopes, more useful. SearchMonkey lets programmers write applications that can turn dry textual listings in search results into a much more elaborate display, and Yahoo
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 5:43pm CEST
This just in…Umibot is pleased to announce a few enhancements to our Neighborhood REST API… In addition to our significantly-increased neighborhood coverage we’ve responded to developer requests and enhanced the REST API’s getNeighborhoodByLatLng to offer the option to return zero-to-one results, as opposed to the default zero-to-n results. Why does this matter? Particularly in urban areas, neighborhood boundaries are organic, complex and because they are culturally defined phenomena. They a
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 5:41pm CEST
Lately I have been interested in Bayesian approaches for genome wide association mapping. These have the benefit of often being able to consider all data in a single model and from that score markers with their probability of being related to the disease without the usual multiple testing problems. So for our journal club today, I picked the following paper for us: Bayesian Graphical Models for Genomewide Association Studies Verzilli, Stallard and Whittaker American Journal of Human Genet
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 5:40pm CEST
Recent Trends in Human Resource Management Contracting Success The contract research industry is currently riding a crest. And with serious money pouring in, there’s plenty of reason to smile. OUTSOURCING of research to India is not a new phenomenon. In fact, India, with its oft-praised technically proficient, low-cost talent pool has today come to be known as a high-quality research and
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 5:18pm CEST
Success is more than economic gains, titles, and degrees. Planning for success is about mapping out all the aspects of your life. Similar to a map, you need to define the following details: origin, destination, vehicle, backpack, landmarks, and route. Origin: Who you are A map has a starting point. Your origin is who you are right now. Most people when asked to introduce themselves would say, “Hi, I’m Jean and I am a 17-year old, senior highschool student.” It does not tell you about who Jea
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 5:00pm CEST
At the Where 2.0 show Google’s John Hanke in his keynote discussed Google Maps’ evolution from a yellow pages like database of service business listings, plotted on a map, to something much broader. Indeed, Google seems to be rapidly building out Maps will all kinds of additional information. And the community/My Maps feature is a key element of all of it. The company is also experimenting with how best to surface this information: Recently it added images from Panaramio (theoretically Fli
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 4:59pm CEST
Success is more than economic gains, titles, and degrees. Planning for success is about mapping out all the aspects of your life. Similar to a map, you need to define the following details: origin, destination, vehicle, backpack, landmarks, and route. Origin: Who you are A map has a starting point. Your origin is who you are right now. Most people when asked to introduce themselves would say, “Hi, I’m Jean and I am a 17-year old, senior highschool student.” It does not tell you about who Jean
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 4:32pm CEST
Connecting your handheld device with iBT-GPS. Please refer to the user manual of PDA to enable the Bluetooth. connectivity. If the connection between..iBT-GPS Solar Bluetooth GPS Data Logger User’s Manual Published on 8-Feb-2007 Rev 1.1 8029504601A2 (more…)
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 3:30pm CEST
relief projection lab at bit teatergarasjen by hc gilje april 2008, originally uploaded by hc gilje. This easter I got the opportunity to work in a large theaterspace (BIT Teatergarasjen) to continue my work on relief projection (or masked projection). I made 9 plywood boxes to use as my projection objects, and worked with two projectors, having a total of 16 projection surfaces. One of the aims for this session was to also work with sound (each object would double as a speaker), and to c
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 3:28pm CEST
Google Maps lets loose a Flash-y API May 15th, 2008 Google has released a Google Maps application program interface that enables developers to use the mapping software in applications that use Adobe Systems’ Flash technology. “We’ve designed it so that Flash graphics can be used for each tile layer, marker, and info window,” a n announcement by Google Maps engineer Mike Jones read, “opening up possibilities like dynamic shading, shadowing, animation, and video.” Earlier this week, Google M
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 3:21pm CEST
Susi Watson developed this unique map for people who wanted want to visit the various tourist attractions in San Francisco. Unfortunately, non-Mindjet users can’t open the branches to see the details. Above are two versions of her map. One is the collapsed overview and the second map is expanded in a few places to show some of the map’s many details. I suspect many of you would like to know how she created this map, so let me give you some background. I was introduced to Susi in the fall of 2
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 2:36pm CEST
Apparently Google have developed sophisticated face-blurring technology in a bid to protect the privacy of those of us captured in any forthcoming filming for it’s Street View service, within Google Maps. Privacy concerns were raised across several cities States-side last year prior to their roll-out within the service. Meanwhile further concerns have been raised in EU countries, where citizens are protected by a general right to privacy, under Article 8 of the Human Rights Act. This news is
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 2:07pm CEST
BitComet 0.58 Final May 15th, 2008 BitComet is a p2p file-sharing freeware fully compatible with Bittorrent, which is one of the most popular p2p protocol designed for high-speed distribution of 100MB or GB sized files. BitComet is a powerful, clean, fast, and easy-to-use bittorrent client. It supports simultaneous downloads, download queue, selected downloads in torrent package, fast-resume, chatting, disk cache, speed limits, port mapping, proxy, ip-filter, etc. Changelog : v0.58 2005.5
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 2:01pm CEST
Une quinzaine de mots de vocabulaire sur l'architecture des châteaux féodaux. Utilisation de l'image mapping pour isoler les parties du château à afficher. Autre lien vers une page présentant le glossaire des châteaux médiévaux
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 1:34pm CEST
Google has introduced a API that will allow developers to use Flash when building Google Maps. Aside from creating a speedier and smoother operation as users move around maps the new interface creates the opportunity for a more creative approach to map building and use. Have a look at the nice example on the Google Maps API blog. “We knew that version 1 of any software project is not perfect, so we opted to split the interface and implementation. As a result, you can build against the current
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 1:32pm CEST
's map service to put detailed street-level images on the Internet could raise concerns in Europe if it was introduced there, the EU's data protection agency said on Thursday. BRUXELLES (Reuters) - La capacité de Google Inc "s service de cartographie détaillée de mettre de plain-pied des images sur l'Internet pourrait soulever des préoccupations en Europe si elle a été introduite, l'Union européenne sur la protection des données agence a dit jeudi. 's Street View offers ground-level, 360-de
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 12:27pm CEST
What kind of crowd scene or performance piece could you develop with the aid of P2P sat-nav on your phone? A new technology for automobiles gives some hints. Dash Driver Network™ approaches traffic in an entirely different way – by collecting it from other people driving real commute routes, during real commute times. Each Dash Express anonymously and automatically sends its position and speed back to servers at the Dash Network Operations Center. The Dash servers then update all other Dash
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 11:17am CEST
Tone & Gamma 15. 05. 2008 um 02:22 Uhr Some terms we’ll need to define: Gamma: is a nonlinear operation to code and decode luminance in video or still image systems. There is a whole science to it and to start reading, introduce yourself to a wiki article. Tone Mapping: is a process of mapping colours/tones to reduce strong contrasts and map them to the displayable range and maintaining image details. Monitor Calibration: a process to measure the colour response of a device and match it to
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 10:29am CEST
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 8:53am CEST
From overly chatty WLAN systems to IT consultant shenanigans, some of the worst IT problems facing companies are the ones they don’t know they have. There’s no shortage of tough problems that jump right in the faces of IT administrators, but some of the worst IT problems facing companies are the ones they don’t know they have. In this story, eWEEK Labs identifies 10 cost- and productivity-robbing problems that might be lurking in your infrastructure and offers IT admins guidance on how to over
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 7:49am CEST
I had the honor of closing O’Reilly’s Where 2.0 Conference today, where I gave a talk on “Activist Mapping” and some history on our Ushahidi project in Kenya. A couple people have asked me to make the slides available, so I’ve embedded the presentation below. | View | Upload your own I’m not sure how useful those images are without the context of me speaking to them. Since I generally type out my notes, I’ve added those below after the “more” button. The notes are not verbatim what I sa
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 7:11am CEST
As portable GPS devices become increasingly commonplace in cars, it was only a matter of time that such devices would become also networked and programmable. Dash Navigation, the maker of Dash Express, a “two-way, Internet-connected GPS navigation system,” announced today DashApps, an API and developer program for the Dash Express. The Dash Express system connects to the network via WiFi or a cellular network. We have created an initial API profile for Dash. Currently available apps include o
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 6:01am CEST
There is a new article in press in the journal Icarus titled, "Geologic Mapping of the Zal region of Io," by Melissa Bunte, David Williams, and Ron Greeley. A summary of their results was presented in March at the Lunar and Planetary Sciences Conference and was reported on here. Now the full paper is available on the Icarus website (subscription required to view paper). This paper is based on imagery acquired during the I25 and I27 Galileo encounters with Io. Like many of the regions mapped by
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 6:01am CEST
Adobe set to test new Flash Player May 15th, 2008 Adobe on Thursday is expected to launch a beta test program for the latest version of its Flash Player software. Flash Player 10, developed under the code name Astro, includes better support for 3D animation and video hardware acceleration, among other improvements. Adobe said that Flash Player 10 will now support custom visual effects, created with Adobe’s free Pixel Bender tools. Developers can write code to create effects that can be
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 5:54am CEST
US study on landslip zones- Hills eye tie-up Posted by barunroy on May 15, 2008 Kalimpong, May 14: A detailed mapping of the hazardous slopes could form the basis of an engineering solution to the problem of landslides in the Darjeeling hills. If all go according to plan, such an exercise would be taken up in Kalimpong with the help of the University of Pittsburgh in the US. [Inset: The Pittsburgh team with members of Pahar in Gangtok. A Telegraph picture] An indication to this effect was gi
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 5:05am CEST
Yahoo! today released a developer preview of its Yahoo! Internet Location Platform, a collection of in-depth geo-location based APIs. We expect to see location be more smartly used in many applications around the web thanks to this platform. The gist of what’s being enabled is this: applications can provide the name of one location and then the Yahoo! APIs will report neighboring and “parent” locations. Flickr developer and map lover Dan Catt articulates the potential power of the API very wel
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 2:56am CEST
A Day in the Life of a Laptop Student Filed under: Blog, Hardware, Learning Community, Mind-Concept Mapping, Web 2.0 Tools — David Carpenter @ 5:56 pm I wrote a short piece for our school yearbook describing how being a 1:1 laptop school affects our learning community. I cover just a few of the ways these wonderful learning tools affect the way we communicate, organize ourselves and learn. Technology and Learning at HIS The 1:1 Apple laptop program drives much of the learning at HIS givi
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 2:48am CEST
The future of the Firefox address bar May 15th, 2008 I had an interesting discussion today about Firefox with Mozilla’s Mike Schroepfer and Mike Beltzner. One of the things we drilled into a bit was the address bar in Firefox 3 (download). It’s being called the “awesome bar” at Mozilla, and while it will end up with an official name eventually (the “smart location bar”), what it does for users can fairly be described as awesome. And as it’s probably the most important touchpoint in the br
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 2:28am CEST
As "promised," now that the semester has ended I am resuming my presence here on synthetic stupidspam. I plan to present some of the things I've been doing this semester in reverse order so that it will be in the right order afters. I'm a bit out of practice here, and my time is still mechakucha-limited, so keep the heat up huh? Wanna reach rant speed 2-D sweet. I'm considering more vlogging, but I will need support. Who's gonna do it with me? Bros? Peeps? As for today's content, I am present
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 1:52am CEST
Mapping the disaster zones A variety of technologies are assisting cartographers map out areas devastated by natural disasters, which helps better focus relief aid efforts. In such desperate times, relief workers are in urgent need of fast, detailed and accurate information of the new situation on the ground. In other words, they need a new map. And, thanks to a series of technological innovations, mapping natural disasters has become a much more effective business, handing cartographers an
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 1:39am CEST
As noted on the NSGIC Blog (3.18.08), Professor Will Craig from the University of Minnesota led a discussion on the NRC National Land Parcel Data Report (2007) at this year’s NSGIC Mid-Year Meeting in March. This report recommends actions needed to establish a nationally integrated land parcel data system, and is part of the NSGIC Advocacy Agenda. National Land Parcel Data Report In Brief:
[dels.nas.edu] Professor Craig’s NSGIC Presentation: ht
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 1:02am CEST
Simplify Media adds chat May 15th, 2008 The new chat function lets users talk to their friends about the music they're borrowing from them. (Credit: Simplify Media) As the self-imposed deadline of June approaches, Simplify Media remains in beta for Windows, Mac, and mobile users. The iTunes and Winamp plugin that lets you share your music with friends has, however, added three new feautres: chat, a “now playing” message that displays what your friends are listening to from your collecti
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 1:01am CEST
Media Teknologi :Dengan banyaknya permintaan Pasar akan alat survey (Theodolite, Total Stations, Kompas dll) dan GPS (Geodetik, Mapping, Navigasi dan Tracking)kami hadir sebagai supleyer alat survey dan Garmin GPS dengan harga yang sangat bersaing dan Bergaransi. untuk Pemesanan anda bisa hubungi kami di: office: Jl.Kemajua n Raya No.2 Petukangan Selatan JakseL 12270 Phone: 021-73416 81 02193699445 0819-05 471152 Untuk Wilayah Jakarta pengiriman Gratis…!!!
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 12:47am CEST
Google Maps adds user-created photos, videos, maps May 15th, 2008 Google Maps launched a new feature on Wednesday that shows you photos, videos, and maps that people have created about different locations around the world. After typing in a city or address there is a new “Explore this area” link near the top left. Clicking on that brings up thumbnails of photos and videos with links to more of each, as well as custom maps for that location. For instance, a search on San Francisco brings
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 12:19am CEST
Introduction Lately there have been many questions regarding how to best map a tree structure in NHibernate. In this post I'll try to show you various techniques how one can deal with a tree structure. The code for this sample you can get from here. Domain Model Let's define a very simple domain model for this sample. We have a single class called Equipment that has a parent of type Equipment and 0 to many children of type Equipment. The tree has a single root node. The root node is specific
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