GeoLabs

Its been a great 2-3 days hangin’ with some of my hero’s from the Ruby/Rails world. On Friday we had dinner with Dr Nic and today I learnt about the finer points of RSpec with Dr Nic and Geoffrey of Peepcode fame at the Sankt Oberholz.
Geoffrey also made the fatal mistake of showing Aleks [...]

UPDATE: At the moment there has been significant interest from users willing to contribute feeds to slashgeo. So drop alex a line if you are interested in helping out slashgeo as an editor.
A sad bit of news that Alex from slashgeo.org has decided to put an indefinit end to the project. It’s a real shame [...]

It appears that while most western media’s attention is fixed on the seemingly good work the Government of Pakistan is doing in Islamabad, those truly deserving our help are the deprived and poor of Sind and Baluchistan. The floods in South Asia have had the most devastating effect in South-Western Pakistan. Sadly in contrast to [...]

Some great news for those interested in the convergence between Ruby/Rails and Geospatial applications. Kashif and I will be giving a tutorial at RailsConf in Berlin. There is going to be 3 hr tutorial titled Rails GIS Hacks, where we will be going through some pretty nifty stuff such as RESTful geospatial applications development. [...]

http://www.foss4g2006.org/

http://www.uow.edu.au/science/eesc/conferences/coastgis06.html

http://www.foss4g2006.org/conferenceCFA.py?confId=1

http://www.uow.edu.au/science/eesc/conferences/coastabs.html

Austrialia’s National Coastal Conference is in Melbourne.

April 15, 2006