Integrate OpenStreet Map with SharePoint 2013 Using REST and Leaflet.js

Integrate OpenStreet Map with SharePoint 2013 Using REST and Leaflet.js

The client’s use case was as follows: they needed a way to be able to plot office locations on a map with contractually agreed to boundaries around them. These boundaries may be a specific radius around an office location or an irregularly shaped polygon. Once these are plotted on the map they required the ability to plot an address on the map to determine whether the address fell within any of the predefined boundaries.

Microjs: Fantastic Micro-Frameworks and Micro-Libraries for Fun and Profit!

Microjs: Fantastic Micro-Frameworks and Micro-Libraries for Fun and Profit!

Micro-frameworks are definitely the pocketknives of the JavaScript library world: short, sweet, to the point. And at 5k and under, micro-frameworks are very very portable. A micro-framework does one thing and one thing only — and does it well. No cruft, no featuritis, no feature creep, no excess anywhere.

Designing intranet homepages that help employees do their jobs – Step Two Designs

Designing intranet homepages that help employees do their jobs – Step Two Designs

There are many ways to make an intranet homepage completely useless to the people using it, and many reasons why this happens. Even with some great insights into what staff need, it can be a slow process to evolve an intranet and its homepage from useless to useful.

This article looks at a range of homepage examples through the lens of ‘usefulness’…

A brief history of transmedia world building

A brief history of transmedia world building from Jeff Watson

Outlines history of transmedia “world-building” in a variety of contexts, from religion to contemporary art practice. Prepared for a student seminar at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts.