Distance between two latitude/longitudes

Posted on September 11, 2020. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , |

Usually, the great circle distance is used to find the distance between two points on the Earth’s surface. This method is only an approximation (with errors being less than 0.5% according to Wikipedia) because the Earth is not a perfect sphere. Vincenty solutions of geodesics on the ellipsoid demonstrates superior approximations (errors less than 1mm), […]

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Modern JavaScript Explained For Dinosaurs

Posted on October 19, 2017. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , |

Modern JavaScript Explained For Dinosaurs The goal of this article to to provide a historical context of how JavaScript tools have evolved to what they are today in 2017. We’ll start from the beginning and build an example website like the dinosaurs did — no tools, just plain HTML and JavaScript. Then we’ll introduce different tools incrementally […]

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Using GitHub for free Javascript and CSS hosting

Posted on October 17, 2017. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , |

rawgit.com When you request certain types of files (like JavaScript, CSS, or HTML) from raw.githubusercontent.com or gist.githubusercontent.com, GitHub serves them with a Content-Type header set to text/plain. As a result, most modern browsers won’t actually interpret these files as JavaScript, CSS, or HTML and will instead just display them as text. RawGit acts as a […]

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MathJax – Beautiful math in all browsers

Posted on October 31, 2012. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , |

MathJax is an open-source JavaScript display engine for LaTeX, MathML, and AsciiMath notation that works in all modern browsers. www.mathjax.org

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Google Code University

Posted on July 10, 2012. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , |

code.google.com/edu/languages Includes courses on: Programming Languages Web Programming Web Security Algorithms Android Distributed Systems Tools 101 Google APIs & Tools

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Relational Algebra in Javascript

Posted on October 12, 2011. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , |

http://pdehaan.com/RAJS/

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