Code. Design. Explore.

I’m excited to tell you about my first “real” contribution to open source!  Sure, I’ve given my feedback on various forums over the years, but I have never worked on a project solely for open source… until now!  And I’m excited about it.

Last year I needed to built a component to view data both spatially and temporally for work.  I tried searching for something open source, but nothing existed.  All I found was lots of people asking for such a component.  So in Nov of 2007 I decided to build it.  Why post it in Jan of 2009 then?  Well let’s just say “process.”  It’s not easy to release open source software when you work at a company.  But anyway…

The component uses and synchronizes OpenLayers map API with MIT’s SIMILE timeline.

A demo is available here.

And the project can be found here:

http://code.google.com/p/maptimeline/

Last night what started out as a light conversation about social networking and sushi turned into a deep, meaningful conversation about life, work and heart.

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I was trying to copy the base of a project for another project I was starting.  I figure it’s smart to write this down as I will probably refer to it again.

find ./ -name ".svn" | xargs rm -Rf