About This

This thing used to be a hosted WordPress instance. Then it became a WordPress instance hosted on an OpenShift instance. Cool stories, bro? Well, if you’re into this sort of thing, it kind of is a cool story now - everything wz yanked out of WP into a Jekyll instance, which is (purposefully) very loosely coupled with a CartoDB + Backbone + Leaflet stack as basically an experiment in whether Jekyll could be given a highly JavaScripty mapping framework without disturbing its Jekyllness. Kinda works!

Its author (who makes himself sound like he’s a tiny but successful think tank but is actually just some dude) has been an assistant professor in Texas and then an assistant/associate professor at a Big Ten school, specializing in spatial data organization, storage and delivery. He currently sits in the basement of a FFRDC (Federally-Funded Research and Development Center) in the Boston area – you know which one ;-) – where he works on a custom full-stack spatial data infrastructure.

But the arguably lone cool thing about this blog is VibrantJS - the little JavaScript library that plucks the three most prominent colors from the tracks’ jackets and paints the little buttons with them. VibrantJS is a separate project (unrelated to/NOT developed by Milleria) but we all get a kick out of it here around Milleria headquarters :-)