Recent Posts Tagged With 'Engineering'

• Better Know a GeoCommons Feature - SpatiaLite

  Posted on Tuesday December 15th, 2009 at 12:03 in Engineering, api, sqlite, geocommons, spatialite

  For Colbert fans the "Better Know a District" series is a familiar part of the Colbert Report. Today I'm kicking off my own series "Better Know a GeoCommons Feature." I'd like you to meet one of our lesser known export formats Spatialite. For thos...

• Want to be a GeoCommons Engineer?

  Posted on Wednesday November 11th, 2009 at 10:25 in Engineering, jobs, geocommons

  It’s time for the FortiusOne GeoCommons team to expand again - and we’re looking for an incredibly bright, hard working, and team oriented engineer to head up our operations team. GeoCommons is unique among most web applications - it isn&...

• GeoCommons Geocoder, Use It!

  Posted on Friday September 11th, 2009 at 16:18 in Engineering, foss, geocoding, geocommons

  In July at State of the Map Andrew Turner announced the release of our open source geocoder gem. Since then it has been tried, bugs have been found and we’ve continued to improve it. Following that announcement we’ve integrated our geocod...

• The Future of Ruby is Bright

  Posted on Monday July 27th, 2009 at 13:11 in ruby, Engineering, conference

  Last week I represented FortiusOne at the FutureRuby conference. A bit of background first. Ruby is the language we’ve used to build our applications. The flexibility of syntax, the focus on programmer productivity and the vibrant community aro...

• Giving engineers a voice

  Posted on Monday July 27th, 2009 at 13:06 in Engineering

  At FortiusOne, we have developed and launched a number of advanced projects. Our flagship product, GeoIQ, and the public GeoCommons application have been leading-edge web platforms for the sharing, visualization, and analysis of geographic data. Alon...