World of Sam
Nginx and uWSGI provide a very nice system for efficiently hosting Django applications. Adding a WordPress blog to the mix is not difficult, but it requires some slightly non-obvious (though still straight-forward) Nginx configuration. To set everything up, lets first think about the site structure and what Nginx actually needs to do. At worldofsam.com, everything [...]
It occurred to me after a visit to the South Island of New Zealand last year that plotting the locations where people have taken lots of photos might turn up some interesting hot-spots. Panoramio was one of the obvious places to look for data, and their API makes it quite easy to get a list [...]
Creating ‘little planet’ style panoramas has become quite the popular thing to do of late, and with examples such as this and this it isn’t hard to see why. Not wanting to miss out on the fun, I decided I’d have a go at creating my own little planet. As it turns out, converting a [...]