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Categoria: Free Software
IOSACal on the web: quick calibration of radiocarbon dates
Radiocarbon calibration, HTTP style
IOSACal 0.4
IOSACal is an open source program for calibration of radiocarbon dates. A few days ago I released version 0.4, that can be installed from PyPI or from source. The documentation and website is at http://c14.iosa.it/ as usual. You will need to have Python 3 already installed. The main highlight of this release are the new… Continua a leggere IOSACal 0.4
Total Open Station: a specialised format converter
It’s 2017 and nine years ago I started writing a set of Python scripts that would become Total Open Station, a humble GPL-licensed tool to download and process data from total station devices. I started from scratch, using the Python standard library and pySerial as best as I could, to create a small but complete… Continua a leggere Total Open Station: a specialised format converter
Debian Wheezy on a Fujitsu Primergy TX200 S3
Debian Wheezy runs just fine on a Fujitsu Primergy TX200 S3 server A few days ago I rebooted an unused machine at work, that had been operating as the main server for the local network (~40 desktops) until 3 years ago. It is a Fujitsu Primergy TX200 S3, that was in production during the years… Continua a leggere Debian Wheezy on a Fujitsu Primergy TX200 S3
Archaeology and Django: mind your jargon
I have been writing small Django apps for archaeology since 2009 ‒ Django 1.0 had been released a few months earlier. I love Django as a programming framework: my initial choice was based on the ORM, at that time the only geo-enabled ORM that could be used out of the box, and years later GeoDjango… Continua a leggere Archaeology and Django: mind your jargon
The OSGeo umbrella
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation ‒ OSGeo ‒ is an umbrella organization for a lot of free and open source software projects focused on geospatial technology, that is, maps 🙂 Projects range from low-level programming libraries like GDAL/OGR (that is also used by ESRI software) to full-fledged desktop apps like QGIS and gvSIG and powerful… Continua a leggere The OSGeo umbrella
Innovation: Ubuntu Edge vs FairPhone
“We’re fighting for free software running on top of hardware that was manufactured by slaves.” – Vinay Gupta at #ohm2013 I have a smartphone, a Samsung Gingerbread device that does its job and allows me to use a mobile phone, check my email, use social networks and take decent pictures on the go (it does… Continua a leggere Innovation: Ubuntu Edge vs FairPhone
GFOSS news
I’ve been meaning to do this for a long time now (since 2009 apparently). I am proud to announce the first issue of GFOSS news, a newsletter from and about the GFOSS community with a focus on Italy. The tagline is “software, dati, persone” (software, data, people) and it is exactly like that. It’s a… Continua a leggere GFOSS news
What is coming in Total Open Station 0.4
More than one year has passed since the first release of Total Open Station (TOPS). Version 0.3 already brought support for multiple data formats and devices, the ability to export your data to common standard formats and a programming library to create scripts around the core functionality of TOPS. We were very proud when TOPS… Continua a leggere What is coming in Total Open Station 0.4