Author Archives: patmartin
New release, new site, new blog
I have deployed a new website for Dex which also contains a new release (dex-0.9.0.0). I will deprecate this blog and instead start blogging about Dex on the new site’s blog.
Checking In
The past couple of weeks have been a flurry of activity and productivity; enough to merit checking in with folks and sharing what I have been up to and what I have learned. I’ve been busy refactoring the core views … Continue reading
dexjs.net is live!
In the spirit of promoting dex.js as a separate but foundation technology of Dex, I have created a new site called dexjs.net which is fully dedicated to sharing information pertaining to the javascript framework. There are also a number of … Continue reading
dex.js presentation
dex.js has been becoming a foundation visualization technology in Dex for the past year or so. However, as is common with coders, I realized that I haven’t really done much to market it whatsoever. So I figured I’d put a … Continue reading
Domain Change
If you recently tried to go to the main Dex site and saw GoDaddy Cash Parking advertisements instead; here is why: GoDaddy apparently has set up a program for domain squatters to gain revenue from previously active domains. The domain … Continue reading
Running JavaFX in a Docker container
There’s lots of talk nowdays about the cloud, containerization, so I decided to see what it would take to run a JavaFX application within a docker container. It took a bit of work to figure out, but it works great. … Continue reading
Dex code on github!
Finally, we are truly open source software. The source code for Dex is now on github. The repository can be found here. Also, the living documentation is in gitbook form and can be found here.
Replacing Grunt/Gulp with NPM
Grunt/Gulp are Overkill (for me) I have come to the conclusion that specialized wrapper/runner systems such as Grunt and Gulp are unnecessary technical debt. I had previously been using Gulp and all the pertinent Gulp add-ons that I needed and it … Continue reading
Gapminder/Vizabi and the story of Burundi
Lately I’ve been droning on about the reusable player and the merits of being able to create frames of data which may be played out across a dimension (typically time). I think the first time I really saw this in … Continue reading
Pushing the Limits of HTML
Previously, I posted a visual of a single time-series against a global heatmap based upon the World Development Indicator dataset from the World Data Bank. So I wondered, could I display all the series from this dataset? This is no … Continue reading
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