Google's Intensity Map charts are a really easy and clean way to show heat maps of geographic data. Unfortunately, there's no way to take the next step in the user experience, and let people mouse over and click on the maps to see additional...

I've been using Google's simple map visualizer to picture some of the geographic data I'm gathering, but I've been looking for something more customizable and interactive. After a lot of searching, I finally found Mercator, an open-source flash library...

Photo by Christina Matheson I've been working a lot with MongoDB lately, including some tinkering to add domain socket support. Unfortunately those modifications mean that I can't just use a binary download when I need to install it on a new machine,...

We had my parents to stay over Thanksgiving. They'd never been to Colorado before, so there was plenty to do around Boulder, but I also wanted a long weekend somewhere in the mountains. After digging around on the great Vacation Rentals by Owner site,...

Photo by B Rosen This one article sums up everything that's wrong with engineering interviews. The author likes to ask potential hires to explain whether you can call delete this within a C++ member function. What's so wrong with that you ask, it...