I’ve recently been working on some Model-View-Controller software for PHP that I’ve dubbed MirageVC.

For some reason I only recently got excited by the web geography phenomenon – i.e. GeoUrl and geourl.info. I think for a long time I’ve was fairly concerned with preserving a sense of anonymity with regards to my presence on the web; or perhaps with maintaining a distinction between my web identity and my personal identity. And while nearly the entire history of my professional career can be revealed by Google and other internet tools, somehow attaching my coordinates to a web site seemed a little too much like rolling over for Big Brother.

Being both a GIS head and a Mac aficionado, I’m very interested to hear of the release of GrassPro.

pAuthorize is a tool I sometimes use to implement a basic user/resource authentication functionality for websites where different users need access to different site resources. Using it will require a MySQL database and bit of tayloring.

Many content management software packages are configured to ping one or more syndication services upon submitting a new post. If you’re “rolling your own” blog or content management tool using php, the following code should do the trick…

The following set of tools is carried over from my old website, “Paddy’s Wagon”. This collection of ARC/INFO AMLs (and a couple of ArcView Avenue scripts) may save some time doing batch processing of grids and coverages.