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This is a small web application that displays a list of articles based on JSON & JSONP published to an Amazon S3 bucket. The implementation is in PHP, which is the language I'm most familiar with on the back-end.
This ended up taking a bit longer than I'd hoped. I started out by exploring the data using some JavaScript mapping libraries, but started to realize I was going to need something with a little more heft. I turned to Ruby, and decided the RGeo gem was the right thing for the job. It's been some time since I've used Ruby regularly, so there was some time spent reacquainting myself with some language stuff. And just getting up to speed with a library I had never used before.
At the core of the problem is this: how close is each address point to a street line? I looked up the math involved, and decided calculating things was going to be too much trouble. Then I discovered a very relevant message on the RGeo-users mailing list, and the rest of the solution was structuring the data properly.
I created a helper function point_line_dist(point, line) that returns the distance
| # LipsumBlender | |
| # Dan Phiffer <[email protected]> | |
| # August 2015 | |
| # LipsumBlender watches the current directory for .txt files, and accumulates | |
| # the file contents into an internal corpus. This corpus is used to randomly | |
| # generate a paragraph of 10 sentences, each containing 10 words. The frequency | |
| # of the word selection is based on how commonly words appear within the | |
| # aggregate input texts. |
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My motivation for joining the Anthropocene Campus comes from a convergence of perspectives. I have experience as a technologist, as an artist, and as an educator (both in higher education and as a workshop leader). I’ve worked closely with journalists, and my projects are anchored by a sense of ethical responsibility—sometimes under the banner of “activism” or “advocacy” (what I regard as a baseline expression of civic participation). I would like to offer this mix of perspectives at the Campus and inflect it with ideas from other participants coming from the humanities, arts, and design.
Where I come from (I grew up in California), computer nerds have been emboldened by financial capital to assume a kind of extra-political control over our collective destinies. Rich technologists from America’s coasts are extending their relative dominance over the Technosphere to encompass aspects of the Biosphere, re-forming the “natural world” through m
This assumes you already have XCode installed, and have a project ready to go with a working Gemfile.
There’s more info at: https://help.github.com/articles/using-jekyll-with-pages/
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"sudo gem install bundlerbrew install libxml2 libxsltsudo env ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" gem install nokogiri -- --use-system-libraries -- --with-xml2-include=/usr/local/Cellar/libxml2/2.9.2/include/libxml2 --with-xml2-lib=/usr/local/Cellar/libxml2/2.9.2/lib --with-xslt-lib=/usr/local/lib --with-xslt-include=/usr/local/includebundler install
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