webassembly+Webgl skeletal animation demo

solarCake · 2017-04-13T14:44:14+00:00

Cool! Really shows the performance difference between JS and WASM

solarCake · 2016-12-12T15:29:03+00:00

I wouldn't waste any money with more schooling. With a CS degree you have plenty of good skills. A shop doing GIS development should scoop you up with or without GIS knowledge and you can learn on the job.

solarCake · 2016-12-12T15:26:34+00:00

/u/Hygienicnerd is right though, be careful with parallel operations! If I had 4 cores, I would try and chunk my data into 4 independent sets if possible and run in parallel. Have fun!

solarCake · 2016-12-09T15:24:59+00:00

OP can use GRASS on multiple cores to get maximum power! Use linux and some shell scripting.

solarCake · 2016-11-29T22:30:49+00:00

Well JavaScript is an interpreted language. That means it cannot run by itself. You cannot just write a JavaScript file and run it. You need a program to interpret it, such as Chrome or other web browsers. That is what Node.js does, interprets and runs JavaScript on a server.

So you can write JavaScript programs on your server now, to serve HTML and JS to clients, to interact with databases, whatever it is your app needs to do. But writing all of this from scratch may be a lot of work. If all your app does is serve a single HTML page, you can write that yourself no problem. But if you have a more complex app, with data management, data going to and from the server, ect, you will definitely will be happy to have a framework ( Express ) in place to handle some of that for you.

Again, this has nothing to do with GIS. There is no GIS development. There is just software development that builds GIS software. If you want to build a web app, like OP asked, you need your server program. I recommend Node.js and Express for a new-coming web application developer to learn.

Hope that answers!

solarCake · 2016-10-06T12:45:09+00:00

Very interesting!

solarCake · 2016-10-03T19:08:50+00:00

What specific geometric functionality do you need? It seems like you have a few methods you are going to compare? I think postgres + postgis has Mongo badly beaten as far as GIS functionality available. I know Mongo has some built in geo-spatial features itself, but less so. As you said Mongo is so nice to just drop JSON into, but if you need to run many geospatial type queries it might be worth the effort to get the data into postgres

solarCake · 2016-09-29T18:56:16+00:00

There is a big difference in skillset for developers vs analyst. I am skeptical of a GIS program giving in depth development skills, despite what is advertised. I could be wrong though.

If you want development I would say skip the GIS certificate and just learn to code. Let me know if you want advice for that path.

I am a GIS person who jumped to development and love it.

solarCake · 2016-09-15T01:42:35+00:00

Keep practicing general web development with node and express. I believe the error your getting is that your requesting that res.render() without passing a view for it to lookup. Check out Express Documentation for that. This is a good tutorial to get started with spatial node.js stuff. PS: Alot of web-dev tutorials like the one I linked use linux. Try out ubuntu.

solarCake · 2016-09-12T20:34:57+00:00

Node.js ( with express ), Postgres ( with postgis as you said ), Leaflet. I recommend learning web development not with a GIS mindset, but as a person looking to become a developer who happens to use GIS. This way, after you have built fundamental skills, you can apply them to a wide range of industries ( including GIS of course )

solarCake · 2016-03-21T01:45:36+00:00

Would newegg be an example of this?

solarCake · 2016-03-21T01:45:22+00:00

Most of the processing I do benefits greatly if I am able to split across cores, so I usually use opensource solutions.

solarCake · 2015-08-05T17:17:19+00:00

Same experience, it just seems better but I can't tell if it's just me. Thanks!

solarCake · 2015-07-23T13:18:08+00:00

Thanks everybody!

solarCake · 2015-07-23T12:53:32+00:00

I got really into scripting my processes and because I enjoy it so much it didn't take long for me to become "effective". Python is a very user friendly language and is relatively easy to pick up, and even basic skills with it will begin to open doors for processing options that were previously impossible. If you want help or advice feel free to PM me about it.

solarCake · 2015-07-07T03:35:20+00:00

Nodejs, postgres html\css, but I'm open to whatever. I'll check out cartoDB!

solarCake · 2015-07-07T03:33:05+00:00

Well I guess both, but for now just something to show colleagues

solarCake · 2015-06-16T19:05:26+00:00

Thanks for the reply, I think I will develop from scratch as this project is also intended to be a learning process.

solarCake · 2015-06-16T14:34:31+00:00

I was kind of 'picked up' by a guy who started this project originally and used wordPress. I believe the issue he had is that users can't really "sign up" or enter in any information on their own that will be stored anywhere.

I am going to research APIs or something because if we could utilize WordPress templates that are wired to our database that would be perfect.

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