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<p>Luxagraf is written and published by Scott Gilbertson.</p>
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<p>Photo by <a href="http://twitter.com/lagsolo" title="@lagsolo on Twitter">@lagsolo</a></p>
<p>If you must have more details about me, or if you’d like to hire me, check out <a href="http://www.scottgilbertson.net/">scottgilbertson.net</a> </p>
<h2>Acknowledgments</h2>
<p>I don’t use a pre-packaged publishing system that you can go download and use yourself. Luxagraf is created primarily by hand, with a lot of tools loosely joined. Most of these tools are free software that you too can use and modify as you see fit. Without these amazing tools I wouldn’t be able to do this — many thanks to the people who created and maintain them.</p>
<p><a href="http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/gis/" title="Geodjango: a world-class geographic web framework">GeoDjango framework</a> — Behind the scenes this handles a few things, like geographic queries and putting everything on a map. If you have any interest in working with geographic data, this is by far the best tool I’ve used.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.python.org/">Python</a> — GeoDjango of course depends on Python, which in turn runs on my <a href="http://www.debian.org/">Linux server</a> hosted by <a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/">Digital Ocean</a>. <a href="http://nginx.org/">Nginx</a> serves the flat HTML files you’re looking at here.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/">OpenStreetMap</a> — I use OpenStreetMap data for all the maps on this site. OpenStreetMap is like the Wikipedia of maps, except that it isn’t wrong half the time. Whenever I feel skeptical about the so-called collective power of people on the internet, I remember OpenStreetMap and feel a little better.</p>
<p><a href="http://leafletjs.com/">Leaflet.js</a> — This is the JavaScript Library that makes it really easy to load all the pretty maps you see on luxagraf. The map tiles themselves were developed by a company call ESRI and are credited with links on the various maps.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.vim.org/">Vim</a> — The text editor I used to type up most things, including these words right now.</p>
<p>The site validates as HTML5 and uses something the kids call responsive web design. I may or may not have written an entire <a href="http://longhandpixels.net/books/responsive-web-design">book on responsive web design</a>. </p>
<p>Luxagraf should work in every web browser. If you have trouble, or see something that just doesn’t seem right, please <a href="/contact">let me know</a>.</p>
<h2>Photography</h2>
<p>Currently photos are taken with a Panasonic GF1. This is hands down the best digital camera I have ever used and second only to my old Nikon F3. In the past I have used a Panasonic LX2 and a Canon S45. </p>
<p>Minimal photo processing is done with either Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop on OS X or Darktable and GIMP on Linux. </p>
<p>The <a href="/photos/">photo gallery layout</a> was inspired by the lovely (and now defunct) <a href="http://www.pictorymag.com/" title="Pictory Mag">Pictory</a> photo showcase. Also note that while the writing is copyrighted to me, the photos are licensed under a Creative Commons <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/" title="Creative Commons: Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported">attribution, share-alike license</a>, which means you’re free to use them so long as you attribute them to me.</p>
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