William M. Hartnett

Just posted over at The Official Backyard Post Blog: Neighborhood mapping help from abroad. Mapping thousands of neighborhoods is hard work. So hard, in fact, that we recently outsourced a very small portion of the workload to Backyard Post’s senior Argentina-based polo correspondent.

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Just posted over at The Official Backyard Post Blog: We like big serifs and, no, we cannot, in fact, lie. Still coming soon over that way: The amazing true story of one programmer and his true and amazing search for the world’s most ergonomically perfect input devices. Amazing. And true. And still coming.

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Just posted over at The Official Backyard Post Blog: Backyard Post now WAY real estate-ier than before. Coming soon over that way: The amazing true story of one programmer and his true and amazing search for the world’s most ergonomically perfect input devices. Amazing. And true.

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Neighborhood of the week is Steeplechase in Palm Beach Gardens.
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Neighborhood of the week is Breakers West, near West Palm Beach. Feature story is on Mounts Botanical Garden’s Connoisseurs Garden Tour.
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Neighborhood of the week is Lacuna Golf and Country Club, west of Lake Worth, near Wellington.
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Neighborhood of the week is Leisureville in Boynton Beach.
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Matt Waite posed a good question in the comments to yesterday’s post about making our investment in the neighborhood boundary data that underlies Backyard Post pay off. Basically, when it comes to such detailed information, do I worry about being too small? Too micro? My thoughts on that topic sprawl ever so slightly, so better [...]

Just posted over at The Official Backyard Post Blog: Backyard Post now WAY searchier than before. Also recently posted over that way, a note about browser support. Hint: It’s time to upgrade from IE 6.

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Since we privately rolled out Backyard Post a few weeks ago, I’ve received quite a few questions about our neighborhood boundary data. As in, where we got it. That’s yet another thing about which I meant to be clearer in my introductory post, but the answer is simple enough: I made it.
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