Category Archives: gsoc

Started coding

May 26, 2008 – 10:49

Last week I learned more about Postgres and I think I will like that better than MySQL once I have completely figured it out. I also looked at the GIS extension PostGIS and in particular how I can access it through Python. I considered Django and some other options, but this part is still a [...]

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Community Bonding Period – Part I

May 14, 2008 – 06:30

G’Day all, It’s been a quiet week for me on the Summer of Code front and far from quiet on the travelling front. I spent a week in Bangkok and arrived in Melbourne two days ago. Still I managed to get some things done. After trying several options, I decided to use Github to host [...]

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Google Summer of Code 2008

April 28, 2008 – 18:31

Every year Google pays students to do work for several open source software organizations. They call it the Summer of Code, although for people like me it will be the Winter of Code; see my previous post (English translation). I will work for OpenStreetMap which is an effort to create a detailed map of the [...]

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