What started out as a simple car wreck at the beginning of the night, ended up as a car with no windows, doors, roof or B pillars. Extrication Night or how do you remove an injured person from a damaged car. I called it, Wow, this is a lot of fun chopping a car into pieces. Continue Reading…
Solr5.0 has been recently released with several new features. One of these is a service install to use with Redhat based Linux systems. This install will walk you through an install and create two example cores to test with.
Many of the Solr install instructions include the installation of Tomcat. This is not required. Solr 5.0 will run with the base OpenJDK. The server also does not need the Apache web server. Continue Reading…
Make Address Data Work for you.
If you need to convert addresses from postal to latitude and longitude, I would suggest looking into Texas A&M Geo Services. If you have a need for these type of services, please consider Geo-stuff provided by Texas A&M University GeoServices.
I am using the service to map voting history to changes in geography. By having the lat/long data allows much faster use of various mapping tools.
Wearing all the gear.
It was bunker gear night. Bunker gear is the system of outer protective clothing for firefighters. “Bunker Gear” is derived from the fact that the trousers and boots are traditionally kept by the firefighter’s bunk at the fire station to be readily available for use. We were outfitted with the complete set of Trousers, Coat, Boots, Nomex Hood, Helmet, Gloves and Eye Protection. Continue Reading…