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The Book of OpenLayers 3, released !!!

08 October, 2014
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Finally I completed most of the chapters I had thought for the book. Although two chapters remains to be written, I think the current content is extensive enough to help anybody interested to lean this great new version of the OpenLayers project. The current chapters explains: The map and the view Layers Data sources and formats Vector layers Events, listeners and properties The two remaining chapters I have in mind are: Controls and interaction Overlays Hope, this book help you to introduce to…

Announcing the release of The Book of OpenLayers 3

23 September, 2014
- 2 min read

I just sent this words to all the people interested in the book via LeanPub and I would like to post it here too, hoping this message arrives to more people. The Book of OpenLayers3 is progressing well. It is not finished but I would like to notify you, in the next weeks, I will launch a pre-release of the book. At this moment the book contains five chapters covering the most important topics of the new architecture and design of the library. All chapters are divided in a theory section, where I…

Releasing code samples for The Book of OpenLayers 3

22 August, 2014
- 2 min read

Writing a book is hard, requires constance and motivation and, more important, be strong to keep them both. Least but not last you need time. Time to see the source code and learn. Time to see the examples and learn. Time to understand all the concepts and learn. Time to explain in your words what you have learnt. Today, I announced the links where you can find the online samples and code repository for The book of OpenLayers3. Code repository is open, so don't hesitate to download and…

Leaflet and how avoid map panning on mouseout

12 May, 2014
- 3 min read

A couple of days ago , a friend asked this simple question in a Spanish forum. The scenario is simple, you have a map and when dragging it you would like to stop the action when the mouse goes beyond the limits of the map, really beyond the (or any other DOM element that) contains the map. The first try anyone can try could be something like: {% highlight javascript %} // create a map in the "map" div, set the view to a given place and zoom var map = L.map('map').setView([51.505, -0.09], 1…

The book of OpenLayers3 is coming !!!

15 February, 2014
- 1 min read

This week the beta2 version of OpenLayers3 has been released (see the OpenLayers3 is comming from Boundlessgeo blog) with great improvements on vector layers rendering and image manipulation. Similarly, The book of OpenLayers3 follows a similar progress, always one or two steps after the project evolution. Currently, you can found a sample chapter about the Map and View, both theory and practice, and I have almost finished the next chapter focused on how to work with Layers. After explaining…

Randomatic, to generate random sequences

27 January, 2014
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This is my own implementation of a tool to generate random character sequences: Ranomatic !!! Why is it useful for? Really not much, simply helps me generate random password. Allow uppercase, lowercase letters, numbers and other non ASCII characters Easy to use Mobile ready Source code: https://github.com/acanimal/Randomatic Demo: http://www.acuriousanimal.com/Randomatic/

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