Back to the Map Block
A month ago I had decided to take on creating a map “block” for Mozilla’s Webmaker app. I have since made two other contributions to Webmaker app and shelved the Map brick for a later date due to it’s...
View ArticleMap Block – Attributions
As I am furthering my development of the map block for Mozilla’s Webmaker App, I have come into an important decision of it’s development: choosing tile provider. Running a server to deliver tiles is...
View ArticleRelease 0.4 – Map Block Pull Request
I have submitted a pull request for the Map Block in Mozilla’s Webmaker App. This component was extremely helpful in learning nuances of programming with Node.js, Vue.js and Leaflet.js. Currently it...
View ArticleEmbedded License Data
Right clicking and pressing save as is the most known practice for downloading a photo on the internet. There are few venues for photo hosting which will protect a photo online. Flickr for example...
View ArticleTaxonomy of Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) with a Creative Commons License
Introduction Adobe’s Extensible Metadata Platform is capable of the “creation, processing, and interchange of metadata”.(Adobe, 2) and most resembles the well-known XML format. The XMP packets are...
View ArticleScheme for adding a valid license to an image using Adobe XMP Toolkit
In continuation of my previous post, I’ve created a sample which stores the licenses, uses the XMP Toolkit to create the valid XMP packet, and applies it to a file. The real take-away is the library...
View ArticleIntegrating XMP into iOS – Work in progress
I am currently attempting to integrate Adobe’s XMP Toolkit into iOS. Although it is simple enough to use the toolkit on a simple C++ program, it is proving difficult to link the library to iOS as it...
View ArticleTraversing the Backlog
For this release, I traversed the backlog of Webmaker and added validation for a “counter block” editor. I investigated and marked reported issues such as this one have been resolved. As with most...
View ArticleR6 – Contribution to React-Bootstrap
React is a javascript library developed by facebook for UI. It’s gaining traction as one of the most popular UI building tools because of it’s ingenious and easy to use coding style. Bootstrap is...
View ArticleR7 – React-Bootstrap: Updated Thumbnail, added divider option
As per the request by the project creator mtscout6 on the last pull request, I’ve added a div option to the thumbnail. In this spec, the user can specify a “href” prop in order to use the thumbnail as...
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