I've been using Ruby version manager (rvm) for a while now, but hadn't really been paying too much attention to its new features. Over the weekend, I ran in to perhaps one of the coolest new features: project-level configurations. Essentially this allows...

I recently wanted to add a highlight link to a navigational element if the navigation was on the current page. I thought this would be pretty straight forward with Rails' link_to helper. Turns out it was a little less-than-intuitive. So, to remind myself...

Last week I was on a panel at the Organization of American Historian's Annual Meeting up in DC with some folks from CHNM. One of the really cool thing that I've noticed is every time I'm around those folks, I get ideas...which can be dangerous. I had been...

After some really good conversations last week at the Institute on Enabling Geospatial Scholarship about mobile devices and mapping as an interpretive device, I mocked up a quick page to see how OpenLayers looked on the Safari mobile browser. The theory...

I had meant to get this info out there a bit earlier, but we were sponsoring an NEH Institute on Enabling Geospatial Scholarship. That's a different post, but I did want to get back to Omeka and flush out building the RPM for Omeka. What I'm going to...