While my development platform has been well defined for some time even ignoring the recent problems with eclipse, other tools have lapsed or never even started. I've used Sage for accounting for a long time, but it has never been comfortable to use, so looking for something to manage bank accounts, both business and personal and is free rules it out anyway. I spent some time with Mistral yesterday working through a number of options and having first installed…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.