Recent Blog Posts

No AI is not a performance improvement

By Lester Caine
Sunday 23 of March, 2025
Posted to Lester Caine's Blog

I've given up on Mistral for help with the current work on getting mapserver running on my machines. While it may be giving solutions that bypass the problems I'm trying to discuss, it just does not answer the actual question. I've got in a bit of a mess now, as I have got the cgi-viewer and tutorial stuff basically working, but they are hacks to fix error messages rather then tidying the scripts to reflect CURRENT requirements for Mapserver 8 ... despite the links claiming that t…

Seems appropriate to keep software development work here

By Lester Caine
Friday 21 of March, 2025
Posted to Lester Caine's Blog

While I was trying to cut down on just where I blog, it's fairly obvious that keeping all of the software development stuff here makes sence. I'm working on the mapper package which was always hosted here and other development and upgrade work builds on the historic material here. At some point perhaps I will pull everything onto the one site, but while they all work so well in parallel lets not rock the boat.

So we have some new articles on Security Certificate Renewal

This is a test post

By Lester Caine
Tuesday 18 of February, 2025
Posted to Lester Caine's Blog

Just trying the fix to posting new blog entries. The post ID is not known until AFTER the post has been saved, and has to be passed pack from the save process ... which is now happening. Next target is the timeout on the security key ...

And I also need to find out why ckeditor is missing on this site!
OK ... this site had been used to as a test of putting the .js files at the end ... but need to initialize ckeditor AFTER loading it. Just competing with the generic loader ele…

10 months on ...

By Lester Caine
Friday 15 of March, 2019
Posted to Lester Caine's Blog
Guide to configuring Leap15.0 server stack

Going back to make progress

By Lester Caine
Sunday 01 of April, 2018
Posted to Lester Caine's Blog
Time to start being more dilligent logging material to keep a working desktop

Tracing site plan on JOSM

By Lester Caine
Tuesday 15 of December, 2015
Posted to Openstreetmap Development

Having been given access to a site plan of my daughters new housing estate, using it to trace from seemed a good idea. While it was provided as a PDF, it needed to be converted to an image to use with PicLayer and I took the opportunity to rotate the image so north was straight up. It was fairly easy to shuffle the loaded image so that it's right hand boundary almost perfectly overlayed the existing boundary in OSM an…

Starting to log time spent keeping the infrastructure working

By Lester Caine
Sunday 23 of August, 2015
Posted to Openstreetmap Development

More and more time these days seems to be spent keeping the infrastructure working, and keeping a tidy mapping service for the websites is no exception. I can understand the drive to make material more acceptable to an international audience, but sometimes changes seem to be more one of personal preference rather than addressing the needs of a wider audience. We have a currently stable style on OSM, and editors which mirror it reasonably well, and there should be no reason that can not be mai…

Current server status

By Lester Caine
Wednesday 01 of January, 2014
Posted to Lester Caine's Blog

Still running a mix of versions of elements of the server stack. Some of the third party hosting is still running on PHP5, but the majority has now been moved to a version of php7.2, although we still have one site using .ASP which while the content is easy enough to move, the quotation form is somewhat more difficult to convert.

Service SRV1 - smallbr…