Recently
01 Nov 2013One of the things I want to do with the re-start for my homepage, is start blogging posts in the style of Tom MacWright’s “Recently” posts. So here goes the first one.
At work, I’m at least partly back to writing C# for the 3.0 release of Ledningskollen. It’s been an eye-opener realizing how much I’ve gotten used to dynamic languages lately - a few years ago, going from a dynamic to static language felt like coming home to safety. Today it feels more like coming home to a really cramped apartment with barred windows.
At least two years after all the cool kids, I made a presentation without PowerPoint or Google apps, and tried Bespoke.js. Inspiration from Chris Helm and his presentation Javascript is Winning at FOSS4G 2013. What really is winning, is code. Code is winning over graphic tools, every time (well, almost).
Work induced, I wrote or worked on several small (or maybe even micro) libraries for various geo-related tasks:
Leaflet Control Geocoder - forked from Leaflet Control Bing Geocoder, I generalized it to support any geocoding service, and implemented OpenStreetMap’s Nominatim as the default. It’s still not pretty enough, but I think it’s a good start.
openlayers-tilejson is more or less a straight port of leaflet-tilejson to OpenLayers. If you want support for my/Kartena’s TileJSON extensions for other projections than spherical Mercator in OpenLayers, this is what you need. (As a side note, I didn’t realize how Leaflet-specific those extensions were until I tried to use them in OpenLayers; I should do something about that.)
Brochure is still a work in progress, although sort of usable already. It’s an attempt to tie together Leaflet and a few common plugins to make it super simple to make a map and display items on it, for people who don’t know anything about GIS and don’t want to learn.
Also, I made my debute on NPM and published some of my and Kartena’s packages there. That also meant making them NPM compliant. Thanks to S. Andrew Sheppard and Calvin Metcalf for showing me how to do this in Proj4Leaflet.
I decided it’s time to phase out the server I have been running in my closet for the last ten years or so. At least stop hosting web stuff on it. My 12 years old, and these days very dormant, community Ralf-o-Rolf has been converted from PHP to Django and deployed on Heroku. Since the database is roughly 250k rows, that means I actually pay for hosting now. I’m such a grownup.
Kokboken is also on Heroku.
I pay for my GitHub account from now on, allowing me to keep private repos for stuff that makes no sense as open source, like Ralf-o-Rolf. It also feels right to pay for something I use quite extensively.
Haven’t heard U.N.P.O.C. before, although his only album seems to be from 2003. Lo-fi Beach boys meets Philemon Arthur and the Dung, or something. I really, really like it.
Dance Commander makes me want to drink beer in large amounts.
I almost forgot about Belle and Sebastian and haven’t listened much to them since early 2000 something, but their music fits my mood now, apparently.
My october playlist as observed from my scrobbles by Last Playlists.