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Comment on Arkansas Rep. Nate Bell is Heartless, Unpatriotic by mk

mk — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:46:17 +0000

Well said! I continue to be dismayed by the number of people who apparently think injecting more guns into dangerous situations somehow makes those situations safer. I am appalled that the NRA believes my colleagues and I should be armed in our classrooms, and I don’t understand why anyone believes that civilians should have access to military-grade weaponry and ammunition.

Comment on Render D3.js-driven SVG server-side! by Josh

Josh — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 17:14:46 +0000

The content of extract.js is what I posted above. Just copy and paste it into a new plain-text file and save it. In order to run it, you’ll need to download PhantomJS.

Now to extract a particular HTML element from a webpage, run the script with the URL and element’s ID as arguments. (This script only works for elements that can be referenced by ID.) For example, to fetch the graph on my Congress Birdie website of bills introduced in 2012—it’s an SVG element called timeline—you’d type:

phantomjs extract.js http://congress.joshreyes.com timeline

I hope that helps.

Comment on Render D3.js-driven SVG server-side! by Dan

Dan — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 03:23:55 +0000

what is in extract.js? How do you use this script?

Comment on Render D3.js-driven SVG server-side! by Sebastian

Sebastian — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 19:32:44 +0000

Hello –

Great article. It made me think of the following blog post from Parsely
(http://blog.parsely.com/post/34241210620/whatever-it-takes).

They also used PhantomJS and D3.js to use the SVG Graphics that were produced.

Comment on Still in SF. by Janice

Janice — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 20:30:03 +0000

haha!! that’s funny, l think it’s a pure mixture of both. Poor thing l feel the same way with blood infact, l think we got that from Dad. He’s rather squemish with blood too. l’ve slowly gotten better but still it freaks me out sometimes.

Comment on Love that Dirty Water by Janice

Janice — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 20:19:14 +0000

l love that dirty water, great eye title! lt will forever be that to me since it was home. However, reading this l hope the little blog entry bout you wanting to do the olympics that’s really cool and wish you all but nothing but the very best!! l’ll be right there rooting you on, if and infact when you get there. :) l love you.

Comment on Wiser not wetter by Mi5

Mi5 — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 00:02:49 +0000

wow! what an adventure. i’m glad you’re blogging again. and i’m amused that you’re double-kayaking. i recently rediscovered my love of sea-kayaking, so we should go together – altho i’m quite weak, but if we made a water date it would be great motivation for me to keep up my exercises! either in the water or on land, i hope to see you soon, friend.

Comment on Geotools, WFS-T Update Request by Josh

Josh — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:10:23 +0000

I wish I could remember what my development environment was. But I wrote this post back in 2007 and haven’t done much with anything GIS since.

Comment on Geotools, WFS-T Update Request by nicche

nicche — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:03:46 +0000

Thanks for this post. By the way…

I’m using Geotools (tried several versions) to connect to an Oracle 11.1.0 schema via GeoServer WFS. When using GeoServer 2.1.2 it works fine until you perform a commit (or an auto-commit). At that point GeoServer sticks on some problem causing the client connection to timeout. Once you shutdown the server the commit is executed (but it’s too late…).

My workaround was to move to version 2.1.0 of GeoServer.

Comment on Scott Brown, why do you hate America? by Josh

Josh — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:59:57 +0000

Hurrah. I especially like your explicit asking why poor kids don’t deserve adequate education and public safety. I’ll update my letter accordingly.

Keep up the civically-minded letters. And thanks for writing to Brown and thanks for commenting.