Matt Walker walkermatt

This is a non-technical reading list for technical people.

This is a list of software you should read like a novel.

There are a bunch of reasons why this is convoluted, mostly in building the URL to make the request:

You have to rely on an AJAX request, this example uses jQuery
To make a GetFeatureInfo request, you must provide a BBOX for a image, and the pixel coordinates for the part of the image that you want info from. A couple of squirrely lines of Leaflet code can give you that.
Output formats. The info_format parameter in the request. We don't know a priori which will be supported by a WMS that we might make a request to. See Geoserver's docs for what formats are available from Geoserver. That won't be the same from WMS to WMS, however.
WMS services return XML docs when there's a mistake in the request or in processing. This sends an HTTP 200, which jQuery doesn't think is an error.

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Hi there!

The docker cheat sheet has moved to a Github project under https://github.com/wsargent/docker-cheat-sheet.

Please click on the link above to go to the cheat sheet.

Some investigation and tests on how to upgrade Mint machine.

Tests performed on Mint Cinnamon 14/15/16, on physical machine 14->15 and VirtualBox VMs for 14->15->16 and 14->16.

As usual you could break your machine, so please do backups before and cross fingers.

A quick "how to" on what you need to do to both setup AND recover a single-server PostgreSQL database using WAL-E

WAL-E: https://github.com/wal-e/wal-e
Assuming Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ("Precise")
We'll be using S3. Make sure you have an IAM in a group with GetObject, ListBucket and PutObject on the bucket you want to use (and that it's not public).

	import logging
	import multiprocessing
	import time

	import mplog

	FORMAT = '%(asctime)s - %(processName)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s'
	logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG, format=FORMAT)
	existing_logger = logging.getLogger('x')

	# taken from http://www.piware.de/2011/01/creating-an-https-server-in-python/
	# generate server.xml with the following command:
	# openssl req -new -x509 -keyout server.pem -out server.pem -days 365 -nodes
	# run as follows:
	# python simple-https-server.py
	# then in your browser, visit:
	# https://localhost:4443

	import BaseHTTPServer, SimpleHTTPServer
	import ssl

	The moon is a harsh mistress - Robert A. Heinlein - 5*
	A canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller 4*
	Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes 5*
	The Forever War - Joe Haldeman - 4*
	The Stars my destination (also known as Tiger! Tiger!) - Alfred Bester - 5*
	The Road - Cormac Mc Carthy - 4*
	God is Dead - Ron Currie Jr. - 4*
	The world without us - Alan Weisman (not really sci fi, but interesting, anyways) - 4*
	Animal Farm - George Orwell - 5*
	1984 - George Orwell - 5*

	vas-y:parallelz seang$ time parallel wc ::: `find ~/writing/blog/2013 -name *.rst`
	18 128 791 /Users/seang/writing/blog/2013/10/07/downgrading-my-blog.rst
	106 567 4011 /Users/seang/writing/blog/2013/10/08/linking-geojson.rst
	34 249 1586 /Users/seang/writing/blog/2013/10/24/joining-mapbox.rst
	70 373 2910 /Users/seang/writing/blog/2013/11/24/introducing-rasterio.rst
	14 45 395 /Users/seang/writing/blog/2013/12/02/geojson-website-refreshed.rst
	25 158 1256 /Users/seang/writing/blog/2013/12/03/atom-extension-for-tinkerer.rst
	16 74 627 /Users/seang/writing/blog/2013/11/27/new-home-on-github-for-geojson.rst
	143 685 6211 /Users/seang/writing/blog/2013/12/04/json-diff-and-patch-for-geojson.rst
	26 202 1237 /Users/seang/writing/blog/2013/12/05/first-blog-post-at-mapbox.rst

	bash$ GLOBIGNORE="confidential.txt"
	bash$ ls -l /opt/too_many_files/*
	secret.txt
	top_secret.txt
	public.txt