Month: May 2011

  • links for 2011-05-11

    Libraries and Web Services for Outdoor Pursuits Mashups If you try and load big GPX tracklogs they may well contain too much detail (too many short legs) for display as a GMaps GPolyline. To work around this, the point set needs to be thinned. The classic algorithm for this is known as the Douglas Peucker […]

  • links for 2011-05-07

    Awkward Showcase – A jQuery Plugin | Awkward Group – A Digital Agency Awkward Showcase – A jQuery Plugin This article was last updated on Apr 27, 2011 Awkward Showcase is a plugin for the JavaScript Framework jQuery. We call it a Content Slider. But it can do more then just slide the content. For […]

  • links for 2011-05-06

    SimString SimString is a simple library for fast approximate string retrieval. Approximate string retrieval finds strings in a database whose similarity with a query string is no smaller than a threshold. Finding not only identical but similar strings, approximate string retrieval has various applications including spelling correction, flexible dictionary matching, duplicate detection, and record linkage. […]