Yesterday, we had our first meeting with Marco Bernasocchi, who just started his Google Summer of Code project. The project goals are: porting QGIS to the Android platform adapt the QGIS GUI for tablet computers write a driver for the built-in GPS create a QGIS “mini” application for mobile phones Marco Hugentobler is mentoring the project and updated information will be available on a QGIS Wiki page. We wish Marco good luck and are looking forward to a portable QGIS this year! Read on

There are various approaches when trying to extend the Textile markup that RedCloth understands with own tags or syntax. Some approaches documented on the net have changed or don’t work any more, since RedCloth has been rewritten in Version 4. Below is a fairly robust aproach, that is based on the assumption, that RedCloth leaves HTML tags inside the markup untouched and passes them on to the application consuming the translated markup. Read on

There might be a reason to upgrade to rubygems 1.7.x, however if you have done so by misstake and find your console swamped by thousands of deprecation warnings: NOTE: Gem::Specification#default_executable= is deprecated with no replacement. It will be removed on or after 2011-10-01. and you’re crying desperately for help, then you might try the following very ugly hack, which you should revert at some point in time: First look where your rubygems are installed: Read on

Problem: I have a web site/page that I visit regularily which I want to annotate with my notes. More specifically, I was regularly searching through the Homegate real estate hub looking for a new home. It goes without saying that I was again and again forgetting which objects I had already looked at, which objects were really interesting and I should check out more closely. Therefore the need to annotate search results. Read on

Am Freitag dem 6. Mai, findet an der Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil das 2. deutschsprachige QGIS Anwendertreffen statt. Quantum GIS (oder kurz QGIS) ist ein benutzerfreundliches Open Source Desktop- und Server-GIS welches sich einer stark wachsenden Anwendergruppe erfreut. Sie finden Infos zu QGIS unter www.qgis.org Nach dem erfolgreichen ersten deutschsprachigen QGIS Anwendertreffen am 21.4.2010 in Bern findet das zweite deutschsprachige QGIS-Anwendertreffen an der HSR in Rapperswil statt. Alle aktuellen Infos zur Veranstaltung, wie auch zur Anmeldung, finden Sie auf der QGIS Seite. Read on