Thank You
It’s august, and with august this year comes the 5 year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina that decimated the south on August 29th, 2005. If you are a fan of the blues, you already know of the many old blues men that sold their soul at the crossroads in Mississippi. Personally, I sold mine in New Orleans.
So if you have ever written a few drupal modules in your day then you probably find it as redundant as I every time you need to create a new module. So maybe this simple little python script will be helpful if you are regularly creating drupal modules. I’m just now getting into Python, so im sure there are ways this could be better written and would love any suggestions. Down the road I would like to add support for more drupal hooks, .install files, themes, templating, and to append hooks to an existing module, but for now this will do.
I’ve been a little behind on things lately trying to keep up things usually leads to my blog getting neglected. It seems that I keep getting a lot of requests to do weddings this year. Here is one of them
Instructions are provide at the mapnik website for installation on CentOS or Redhat. But unfortunately they are a little out of date and just didnt work for me. This guide provides the steps needed to install mapnik on CentOS 5. Continue reading →
Dudefest, Day 1: The evening started off fairly sparse with a few crowding to the front to watch the bands and the occasional minipit. The hall packed densely with merch booths and the bathroom supplying the Emerson Theater classic carnival game, piss on the cockroach in the urinal until he drowns in urine. The crowd seemed to pick up by the time Landmine Marathon took stage. But it was the full force rage of Municipal Waste that really brought things into a fury. The crowd still remained relatively slow for Dudefest until mid-set when the crowd was instructed to bring more to the table.
Day 2: Much irony in the second day that took place at the ES Jungle. For those that don’t know its a church and one can merely chuckle when bands like Black Arrows of Filth and Impurity are on the bill and your staring down a line of people wearing tshirts depicting bloodied carcasses atop a pentagram. This day was a bit more rough and more along the lines of what I was expecting at Dudefest. By the end of the night it turned into a photography war zone, just replace bombs with people, feet, and elbows. I feel sympathy for the man to my left that ate the butt end of my camera lens as it flung wildly into the air after receiving a nice hard jar from someone on my right. After receiving a more painful hit in the jaw I had to seek cover.
Full set of photos are available at Brooklyn Vegan
Lately I have been working on a project for projecting map data from shapefiles onto a google map. It needed to be easy to manage and the client had to be able to upload shape files to drupal and have the map automatically update itself upon posting. What we came up with was a Drupal back end that dynamically generates a Cascadenik map file. From there we use a python subclass for tilecache to render that file into a Mapnik ready xml file. Then of course that is projected onto a google map. Continue reading →
So i’m apparently horrible at keeping up with my water thirsty plants. However I did notice how quick they bounce back after being watered. So this time around I setup my camera and did a time lapse of my Rex Begonia right after a much needed watering. This all takes place in about the course of an hour
If you have even glanced at the news, it comes as no surprise when we talk about the Gulf oil spill. BP is controlling public perception, well the best they can. Politicians are in a frenzy, and all of these disasters and failures come at the expense of the people that live and work every day in the gulf. Many in Louisiana are still trying to recover from Katrina.
So while big oil and politicians duke it out over who’s to blame and “who’s ass to kick” the rest of the people on the coast will be stripped of their livelihood.
Ok, I didnt travel to San Diego to shoot this show of mastodon, this was taken in indy.
