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Ken-ichi
kueda
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Website: http://inaturalist.org
Location: Oakland, CA
I am the hand of doom. All code withers at my buggy touch.
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Atom Feed#47: finding a time zone give lat/lon coordinates
Solved!on May 22, 2009, 08:59 PM UTC — from 
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kueda
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A little while ago we started using time zones in iNat, which was more troublesome than anticipated. One problem I ran into was automatically setting the time zone from pre-existing observations given their lat/lon. I ended up http://www.earthtools.org/webservices...
#45: why is Rails logging to ".log"?!
Solved!on May 15, 2009, 11:58 PM UTC — from kueda
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kueda
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I started using Workling, but quickly realized it was logging to "log/.log" for some inane reason.
#44: multivalue facet fields in acts_as_solr
Solved!on May 11, 2009, 06:57 PM UTC — from kueda
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kueda
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Solr supports faceted search, which is good, but acts_as_solr has pretty terribly documentation, which is bad.
#43: resetting Rails schema_migrations table
Solved!on May 09, 2009, 02:04 AM UTC — from kueda
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kueda
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I just ran a failing migration, and in a fit of panic, deleted all the rows from my schema migrations table. That's a pretty dumb thing to do.
#41: installing mapnik in OS X with MacPorts
Solved!on May 01, 2009, 04:49 PM UTC — from kueda
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kueda
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Mapnik is an open source map rendering lib that makes pretty maps and has an extensive Python API. Unfortunately, it's still a pain in the ass to install with macports. Luckily, there are some really helpful people in the community....