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  • NZRM Webmaps Development Update 2021-03-17 [1]

    One of the features of this blog is that it includes technical posts about the NZ Rail Maps project with which converser.nz blogs are affiliated. These posts are less suitable for a general audience mainly interested in the map content and so are posted on NZTechonverse instead. The NZ Rail Maps live webmaps project is…

  • Shoddy electrical standards cause accidents and fires

    There’s hardly a month that goes past when FENZ is not announcing that someone’s house, school or other premises has been burned down by a faulty electrical power board. This never needed to have happened, because when these devices first started to become widely available in NZ, back in my childhood, they were almost invariably…

  • Social Housing Providers Must Protect Tenants From Harrassment

    In recent weeks local Christchurch print media have reported a number of cases of tenants in social housing complexes being intimidated by other tenants. Whilst the provision of social housing does involve provision for tenants who may have high and complex needs, there are grounds for concern that social housing is increasingly seen as a…

  • NZ Rail Maps: Spatialite vs Geopackage

    In the NZ Rail Maps project, I have preferred in recent years to replace shapefiles with databased formats. When using file based dbms (vs client-server) SQlite stands out as a viable alternative that is extremely well supported with an impeccable reputation. There are a number of SQlite based formats of data for GIS layers. Geopackage…

  • Reflection

    I have decided to import all the old posts from Blogger (over 700) so they now appear with the correct dates herein, as well as their categories being added to a now-somewhat-long list. This blog is now 14 years old although previously known as Enzed Tech. It’s interesting to take a look back to the…

  • Samsung Galaxy A12

    Well it’s time to get some posting underway for 2021 (other than rail maps) so here is a brief run down of a recent acquisition, a Samsung Galaxy A12 phone. This model was released late last year so there is relatively little information available for it on a lot of sites. The example mentioned here…

  • DreamHost vs GoDaddy vs local… webhost pros and cons

    Well this time around I am going to write about the choice of webhost platform. Web hosting these days can be a lot cheaper than it might have been in the past as there is a lot of competition. In New Zealand you can get quite reasonable web hosting with 150 GB of disk space…

  • Blogs all up now (almost) – again

    So here I am doing my second blog migration in only two months. This time I’m shifting everything onto DreamHost from GoDaddy. I’ll explain the reasons behind that choice in my next post. For now, although there has been a bit of a learning curve because of the differences in site implementation, most of the…

  • Social Housing Works Best Under Local Authority Control

    In New Zealand we have a perennial debate about the interaction and service distribution between central government and local authority control. This happens because the country does not have any form of state government. Instead, there is one central (federal) government based in Wellington, and two tiers of local government with far less powers and…

  • Blogs all up now

    After getting the SSL certificates installed for both sites, final customisations have been completed and layouts set. Each blog now has a distinct unique colour scheme and all have the same layout with the placement of widgets in the sidebars and footers. When a post is made on a subblog, a plugin installed in converser.nz…

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