Our research lab is non-profit, but private GitHub repositories still cost money, so I have been playing with GitLab Community Edition to serve up some private Git repositories from a third-party host on the cheap. Before using GitLab CE, I had set up a Git repository that, for whatever reason, would not allow users to cache credentials […]
Category Archives: web
Adding same-sex marriage law data to a d3-cartogram
Shawn Allen wrote a d3.js-based implementation of a 2D cartogram, which sizes US states in an area-proportional manner, where area is based on some interesting statistic, like population. There has been a great deal of progress made in the last year in defending the rights of GLBT Americans to marry and have their partnership rights […]
Using wget to grab a copy of a website for offline browsing
When I want to make BEDOPS documentation available for offline browsing, here is the command I use: wget –no-parent –recursive –page-requisites –html-extension –convert-links -E -l 2 http://code.google.com/p/bedops This handy wget statement fixes up the img and other URL references so that links to images and other resources load up from the local copy. So what […]