Showing 31 to 36 of 43 blog posts by Colin Copeland.
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Configuring a Jenkins Slave
We're pretty avid testers here at Caktus and when one of our Django projects required upgrading to Python 2.7, we also needed to upgrade our Jenkins build environment. Luckily, ... Read more
January 10, 2012 -
OpenBlock Geocoder, Part 3: External Geocoders
The OpenBlock geocoder is powerful and robust. It uses PostGIS for spacial queries, can extract addresses from bodies of text, and can understand block and intersection notation... Read more
December 28, 2011 -
OpenBlock Geocoder, Part 2: Text Parsing and Entity Extraction
This is the second post in our OpenRural series reviewing OpenBlock and it's geocoder. OpenBlock Geocoder, Part 1: Data Model and Geocoding covers the internals of the OpenBlock... Read more
December 16, 2011 -
OpenBlock Geocoder, Part 1: Data Model and Geocoding
As Tobias mentioned in Scraping Data and Web Standards, Caktus is collaborating with the UNC School of Journalism to help develop Open Rural (the code is on GitHub). Open Rural ... Read more
December 12, 2011 -
Lightning Talk Lunch: Service Page API
Leading the second talk of our Caktus Lightning Talk Lunch series, Calvin Spealman presented on the Service Page API: The Service Page API is a prototype and proof of concept t... Read more
August 17, 2011 -
An alternative RapidSMS router implementation (with Celery!)
We've been using RapidSMS, a Django-powered SMS framework, more and more frequently here at Caktus. It's evolved a lot over the past year-- from being reworked to feel more like... Read more
July 18, 2011
