Posts by 'Qalthos'

Qalthos

Diving Deep

Yesterday had been spent working on a proper dev branch to CIVX. Today we gave it a home. Today started off trying to get the current dev CIVX running on our server. Now, I had some experience setting up a CIVX instance from getting one running on my box, but my box is mine and I know what's on it. This server is not, so we had a few troubles along the way. Once again the instructions proved insufficient (though not actually bad per se). The server was running Python 2.4 by default, and one of ...

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CIVX Stuff

So I've been spending some time finally getting some time to familiarize myself with CIVX and all the parts that make up the system. I'm almost comfortable with how the whole thing works together, though I'm not entirely clear on how some things work to finally get to the screen. Still, I got things running, both the current CIVX build and Kayeight's widget, though getting the two together is harder than it seems like it should be. On the other hand, I tweaked the GettingStarted page of the CIV ...

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More Conference Calls

Every time I go through one of these calls I feel like I come out knowing less about the topic discussed. The topics aren't hard, and I can now follow along and understand most of what they're talking about, but most of the technologies are things I haven't really looked at before. It's interesting, and it's exciting, but it's a little wearying too. The majority of the talks seem to revolve around the use of Amazon EC2 instances, of which I know nothing. On my own tasks, the semifinal versions ...

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Introducing: GeoPirate!

So I've recieved my apparently mandated CIVX nickname, despite it possibly being inaccurate in a week or two. I, along with Pixel Ninja and Python Princess, have been hacking away at our various tasks together for over a week now, and despite the seemingly constant moving from place to place, it's a pretty sweet gig. My work yesterday was some final polishing of the getall script, and my first real push to the geowebdns repository. I'm also workign on a supplemental, informational guide to main ...

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Hello, world...

This is my first posting despite having been here for a week, because the zaniness that was my first week did not allow for such silly things as intorductions. Now I finally have some of the infrastructure things worked out, and can report on my findings. Work has been progressing on a scraper for shapefiles for the Senate. I've been fairly successful in getting a large amount of data, (up to 7.6 GB of zip files!) so my task today was to clean up the sc ...