Creating Ansible Roles from Scratch: Part 2
By Hector Castro on October 13th, 2014
In part one of this series, we created the outline of an Ansible role to install Packer with ansible-galaxy, and...
Creating Ansible Roles from Scratch: Part 1
By Hector Castro on October 9th, 2014
Within Ansible there are two techniques for reusing a set of configuration management tasks, includes and roles. Although both techniques...
Google Summer of Code – A GeoTiff reader for GeoTrellis
By Azavea on September 5th, 2014
Applying to Google Summer of Code I first heard of Google Summer of Code (from here on GSOC) when a...
Batch District Matching Using the Cicero API with OpenRefine
By Azavea on August 6th, 2014
OpenRefine (formerly Google Refine) is an awesome open source tool for working with data. If you haven’t heard of it...
GeoTrellis Transit on iOS with WhirlyViz
By Robert Cheetham on April 12th, 2014
I was recently introduced to Steve Gifford at Mousebird Consulting, a software firm based in San Francisco that builds mapping...
Solving Unicode Problems in Python 2.7
By Derek Dohler on March 24th, 2014
UnicodeDecodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t decode byte 0xd1 in position 1: ordinal not in range(128) (Why is this so hard??) One...