Archive for May, 2009
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How to set up an AWS EC2 instance
Posted on 3 weeks agoAmazon Web Service’s EC2 is the workhorse and general purpose computer in the AWS ecosystem. It is affordable (free or very cheap if you keep it scaled to the minimum... -
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Five year anniversary
Posted on April 4, 2013Five years ago I published the first blog post on this page, and 130 posts later I’m happy I managed my goal of writing a post now and then. Much... -
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Norske illustrasjonskart på fylkes- og kommunenivå med SVG
Posted on March 6, 2013Vektor- og rastergrafikk SVG – Scalable Vector Graphics – er, som gitt av navnet, et skalerbart vektorbasert grafikk-markup. Vektorgrafikk er bedre egnet til skalering enn raster, da bildet ikke består... -
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Enter the Cloud – Amazon Web Services
Posted on February 22, 2013AWS – Amazon Web Services – is a great infrastructure cloud service for all IT business from start-ups to full blown corporations. Providing both Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) through the general purpose... -
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Work programmatically with Google Spreadsheets
Posted on February 3, 2013Some time back I authored a script which reads through a CSV formatted list, and based on the artists’ names tried to decide the nationality of the artists by querying... -
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Grunnloven av 1814 som ordsky
Posted on November 18, 2012WordClouds, eller ordsky på norsk, du har sikkert sett mange av dem. Ideen er å lage en visuell presentasjon av frekvensen av ordene i teksten. Dette er nyttig da det... -
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Data-wrangling: find country based on artist name
Posted on November 11, 2012At the Clouds & Concerts project at the University of Oslo we are working with really interesting topics, based on interesting empirical data. Through our collaboration with the Norwegian streaming... -
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Create Thumbnails Programatically
Posted on September 16, 2012If you have several images following a certain structure on a web page and want them as thumbnails, it can be useful to programatically create these. The manual way of...