We have a project that an external group is helping with, and wanted a hardened machine for them to ssh into without worries. For projects like this, I recommend you wander over to secmaniac to see Dave Kennedy’s blog on security related stuff. He’s got out a relatively new tool (a few months old) that’s (a first for him) on the defensive side of security … Continue reading Beefing up the firewall using Artillery
This is such a small post, it could be a tweet, but since I re-read my blog and rarely my tweets (and as this is as much for me as for anyone else): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3915917/make-a-link-use-post-instead-of-get Continue reading Making a link use post instead of get
I’ve had a couple of other posts (1 and 2 and 3 and) on simple clients for MapFish. I like the client server infrastructure for MapFish– with the client end of things built up in GeoExt, it makes for a really elegant combo. But I’d like articulate my vision for simple clients for MapFish a little further. One thing that seems quite feasible is to … Continue reading Building simple clients for MapFish — Beginnings of a PL/pgSQL function
Just a quick link to a post I found on installing pgRouting on Ubuntu: http://obsessivecoder.com/2010/02/01/installing-postgresql-8-4-postgis-1-4-1-and-pgrouting-1-0-3-on-ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala/ Continue reading Nice post on installing pgRouting on Ubuntu
A while back, I had a (somewhat cryptic) post on OGC services and security. A couple months later, I saw this post on GeoSolution’s site on GeoServer security and the ins and outs of various options, from native to proxied security. It is quite a bit more nuanced than my own… . I recommend you read it, even if you don’t use GeoServer– it is … Continue reading #OGC Web Services and #Security
Leaflet, CartoDB, GeoJSON, and cross platform web map deployment. First some introductions: “Leaflet is a modern, lightweight open-source JavaScript library for interactive maps for desktop and mobile web browsers, developed by CloudMade to form the core of its next generation JavaScript API. Weighting just about 21kb of gzipped JS code, it still has all the features you will ever need for you web mapping needs … Continue reading Playing with new tools and old standards: GeoJSON, Leaflet, CartoDB across platforms
In order to build simple clients for the MapFish print service, we have to understand what the protocols are that are invoked and how they function. To do this we can read the MapFish Print Module Doc, and then modify and vamp from there. While I was going to joke that this would be an excellent cure for insomnia, the joke fell apart when I … Continue reading Building simple clients for MapFish — Underlying Infrastructure
I’ve been enamored with the GeoExt interface for grabbing MapFish based print services since I first saw it. It’s a slick little interface, and can even been extended for multi-page print layouts pretty easily, ala http://tinyurl.com/mapfishmultipageprint. But as I’ve started to give thought not to what an organization full of professionals needs but what a public interface should looks (and probably those interfaces for professional … Continue reading Ditching GeoExt– building simple clients for MapFish
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