The final day of the Dev Summit has come and gone. Some highlights: Today was all about JavaScript for me. Started with a look at the "good parts" of Dojo.
There it was. A beautiful green lacewing, family Chrysopidae, resting on a yellow Iceland poppy in our bee garden. It literally glowed. Nice to have it land there instead of on a green leaf; otherwise, we may never have noticed it. Lacewings are the good guys and girls.
By California Rice Commission http://www.calricenews.org/2015/03/11/water-allocations-challenged-by-another-disappointing-winter/ We are in regular contact with the Northern California Water Association and area water managers to assess likely impacts from year four of the drought.
Polyphagous Shothole Borer which is an ambrosia beetle that normally feeds on dead trees is going after live trees - over 100 species including sycamore, alder and coast live oak. It also goes after avocado.
Bees do it. Butterflies do it. Beetles do it. Birds do it. Bats do it. Do what, you ask? They pollinate! The Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Davis, will greet visitors on Saturday, March 14 at its open house, themed "Pollinator Nation." To be held from 1 to 4 p.m.
It was another great day at the Dev Summit. The morning started off with a keynote address from John Tomizuka, Co-founder and CTO of Taqtile, a mobile app development company based in Seattle.
FOSS4G NA 2015 is going on this week in the Bay Area, and so far, it has been a great conference. Monday had a great line-up of tutorials (including mine on PySAL and Rasterio), and yesterday was full of inspiring talks.
ESRI's Developer Summit in Palm Springs is taking place this week. It is a much smaller, more tightly focused event than the User Conference which takes place later in the summer.
