codinggeekette, or Sarah Dutkiewicz and her husband introduced me to Linux and Open Source many years ago. Running counter-culture is the genius that is @sadukie, so now she’s a Microsoft MVP. We’ll forgive her that, since she does crazy stuff like setting up .net environments on Linux and other fun stuff. Anyway, Sarah has a post on phone apps she likes and has proposed in … Continue reading There’s an App for That, Alternate
Happy New Year everyone! In a beautifully global fashion, the first New Year wishes I received this year were out of Africa from two folks I follow on twitter. In that same vein, my blog is comfortably global, with readers on all the continents, Antarctica notwithstanding. As I used to do polar research, I suppose I should change that 6 out of 7 to 7 … Continue reading 2011 in review — Laziest post possible
From earlier post: “I’ve managed to pilot most of a fast high resolution landscape position workflow with PovRay as my magic tool. The final steps I hope to pipe through PostGIS Raster. In the meantime a screenshot and description: blues are riparian, raw ocre, etc upland categories, grey is mostly flat lake plain and mid slopes, all derived from just a high res DEM input … Continue reading Landscape Position: Conclusion? (part 2)
I’ve managed to pilot most of a fast high resolution landscape position workflow with PovRay as my magic tool. The final steps I hope to pipe through PostGIS Raster. In the meantime a screenshot and description: blues are riparian, raw ocre, etc upland categories, grey is mostly flat lake plain and mid slopes, all derived from just a high res DEM input (no hydro lines … Continue reading Landscape Position: Conclusion?
I’ve been starting to inform myself on authentication/authorization schemes for OGC Web Services (OWS). This is because, while I’m pretty pleased with most of the functionality basic mapping of our internal GeoExt/GeoServer/PostGIS stack, user editing is the next natural step. As it is now, users can access a variety of really detailed useful layers, print to PDF, and for the most part the interface is … Continue reading OGC Web Services and Security
I was nearing e-mail bankruptcy; instead of declaring it, I organized, and sorted through the last three years of e-mails. I found a great e-mail from a friend and fellow geographer from undergraduate who sent me a link to Strange Maps. Re-posted here for your pleasure, if you haven’t stumbled upon this already: http://bigthink.com/blogs/strange-maps Thanks Ms. Armstrong. Continue reading Strange Maps
A quick post today: If you’re running Tomcat, the root of your application container will look something like this: That’s not what I want my users to see at root. I want them to see my application. So I borrowed some instructions from this blog to make that root directory point elsewhere. Of course, you could do this with a proxy service too, a redirect … Continue reading Redirect tomcat ROOT
I revised my startup script for Tomcat to use a non-privileged user for security reasons. I used the following page as my resource: http://linux-sxs.org/internet_serving/c140.html #!/bin/sh # /etc/init.d/tomcat6: start Tomcat6 server. test -f /opt/apache-tomcat-6.0.32/bin/startup.sh || exit 0 PATH=$PATH:/opt/apache-tomcat-6.0.32/bin/ case “$1” in start) export JAVA_HOME=/opt/jre1.6.0_26/ logger -t Tomcat6 “Starting Tomcat 6…” exec su – tomcat -c /opt/apache-tomcat-6.0.32/bin/startup.sh | logger -t Tomcat6 ;; stop) export JAVA_HOME=/opt/jre1.6.0_26/ logger -t … Continue reading Debian Configuration– Tomcat on Boot, revision
I spent a few hours winnowing down my list of desired talks at FOSS4G and came up with the following list. Path dependence (i.e. technologies related to the ones I’m already deploying) were at the top of this list, but I do hope to expand my knowledge of all the options as well. For almost every slot, there were anywhere from 2 to 4 presentations … Continue reading FOSS4G 2011 Denver– Ideal schedule
Every now and then I delve into tag surfer and find something new and interesting. This time, it led me to a post on writing your name large enough to be seen from space: http://andrewlainton.wordpress.com/2011/07/23/writing-your-name-in-the-sand-big-enough-to-be-seen-from-space/ Sometimes though, what you write is not about you personally, but a larger obsession. In the same venue, but less personal: I should note, I’m not a Cavs fan, being … Continue reading Writing Your Name Big Enough to be Seen from Space
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