Mapfish is mapping application framework based on OpenLayers for the mapping part, and on ExtJS for the GUI (widgets) part.
The server part in version 1.0 is available as Java and Python implementation. We contributed recently an additional server implementation written as a Ruby on Rails plugin.
See the README for more information.
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English Problem How can I type czech characters, in particular characters with a tick on them, such as f.ex. ‘š’?
Solutions The solutions below should be working under Gnome and Xfce. Both solutions can be combined if desired.
Solution 1 - using the compose key This solution uses the “compose key”. You press a special key. After that you press two or more other keys. And the keyboard subsystem will try to combine the presses keys into a character.
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There’s some interesting piece of software that I want to experiment with. It includes an example Rails application. Nice:
# apt-get install rails $ cd interesting-example-rails-app $ ./script/server Missing the Rails 2.0.2 gem. Please `gem install -v=2.0.2 rails`, update your RAILS_GEM_VERSION setting in config/environment.rb for the Rails version you do have installed, or comment out RAILS_GEM_VERSION to use the latest version installed. Uhm, well, why?
$ dpkg -s rails | grep Version Version: 2.
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Allthough this being a hack to scratch my itch named KDE Bug 34682, it took me about 11h all the same. Find a ruby programm attached that dumps a timeline.
This is fork ware. It does what I want but if you need to tune it to your needs then fork it, send me a note and link back to this page, Thanks.
Tomas Pospisek, tpo_deb at sourcepole.ch
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Here’s an improved version of mybackup, a MySql database backup tool. The changes against 0.9.5c are:
0.9.6:
option to exclude databases by default exclude MySql’s information_schema metainfo DB access TABLE STATUS rows by name instead of position use the standard ‘-’ for STDOUT instead of ‘BLANK’ which wouldn’t work open log file before writing any output Tomas Pospisek, tpo at sourcepole.ch
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