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Building Static Sites: How and Who

Building static Web sites is appealing for a variety of reasons: The model can support a rather large range of use cases, allows to use simple tools and easy deployment, and makes it trivial for everybody to work on branches... Read more →

PubSub: A Short Introduction

Recently, [W3C](https://www.w3.org/) published the first working draft of a protocol called [PubSub](https://www.w3.org/TR/pubsub/). It is on the W3C TR track and thus intended to become a W3C recommendation. While the name is new, it is the protocol that previously has been... Read more →

A PubSub Called PubSub

There is a new *PubSub* protocol in town, and it's called *PubSub*. Just this week, [W3C](https://www.w3.org/) published a first public draft of the [PubSub](https://www.w3.org/TR/pubsub/) protocol. It is what used to be called [PubSubHubbub (sometimes shortened to PuSH)](https://github.com/pubsubhubbub/), but W3C has... Read more →

Uploading Routes to Garmin fēnix 3 (or: #letmeusemydata)

One problem described recently is how to get useful track and waypoint information out of Garmin's rather closed world. The other direction can be equally tricky, by which I mean how to get tracks and waypoints onto the device to... Read more →

How to Create and Use Waypoints with Garmin Devices (or: #givememydata)

Imagine you are hiking or walking and you are using a GPS to record your track. Modern devices such as Garmin's watches allow you to "Save Locations" along the way, which can be a handy way to mark some kind... Read more →

A JSON Format for GPS Data on the Web

The Global Positioning System (GPS) has revolutionized many things, and has become an integral part of many mobile computing scenarios. Also, it has become essential for many outdoor and sports enthusiast, or simply fitness-interested people, by using GPS-enabled wearables (such... Read more →

Github Fork Etiquette

this is a brief post about how to contribute to a github repository through the fork and pull request method. while there are a lot of short intros and how-to pages out there, none had the right mix of commands... Read more →

Open Spatial Services

is location a web concept (yet)? not really so far, even though of course there are many location-based services (LBS) out there. but many are trapped in specific services such as google maps or foursquare, often for business reasons, sometimes... Read more →

HTML5 Classification

the HTML5 landscape overview on my blog is getting a fair share of hits over time, and i guess the simple explanation for that is that HTML5 is a constantly evolving and vaguely defined concept, so people search for overviews... Read more →

Adobe Acrobat Accessibility

visiting http://acrobat.com/ with mobile safari is a special experience, one that very few companies provide to potential customers: the site tells you that you are using an unsupported browser, and urges you to upgrade to a supported browser. which is... Read more →