{"id":9,"date":"2021-05-23T23:57:26","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T23:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raggedsign.com\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2021-05-23T23:57:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T23:57:26","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/raggedsign.net\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"Portfolio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>All of the websites below reside on my servers. My servers are on server farms located in either Fremont, California or Newark, New Jersey. I rent them from <a href=\"http:\/\/linode.com\">linode.com<\/a>, which has excellent reliability and provides them with very high speed connections to the internet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Blogs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I started out helping friends and acquaintances build their own blogs and I provide the hosting. The following blogs are ones that I helped build and host. They are built on the widely-used and flexible <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\">WordPress<\/a> platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/caveatdumptruck.com\">caveatdumptruck<\/a> (this is my own blog &#8211; where it all started)<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\">geofictician<\/a> (actually this is me, too &#8211; an <em>alter ego<\/em>)<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/yule-tide.generalsemiotics.net\">yule-tide<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/akjeff.com\">akjeff<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Business &amp; Individual Sites<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>These sites are built on the same WordPress platform as the blogs, above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/aplacetostayinak.com\">A Place to Stay<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/godsright.org\">godsright.org<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/dev.craig-alaska.net\">dev.craig-alaska.net<\/a> (just a sample and\/or test website)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Wikis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Everyone knows about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\">Wikipedia<\/a>. But did you know you can have your own wiki? It&#8217;s quite easy to do using the Mediawiki platform, which is the exact same software that Wikipedia uses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.geofictician.net\/wiki\/index.php\/Main_Page\">geofictician<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Geofiction and GIS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Geofiction is a niche hobby &#8211; it means making maps of unreal or imaginary places. A website called <a href=\"http:\/\/opengeofiction.net\">opengeofiction.net<\/a> innovated the idea of applying the same type of technology as used for Google maps to this hobby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have developed a great deal of expertise in this narrow field, starting with work as an administrator for that website, and since then building my own &#8220;geofiction servers.&#8221; These are very complex pieces of software and the most challenging website work I have done. If you want to &#8220;rent a planet&#8221; I am willing to build and host your private map server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;GIS&#8221; refers to Geographic Information Systems. My work with &#8220;geofiction servers&#8221; above has led me to an intimate familiarity with the <a href=\"http:\/\/openstreetmap.org\">OpenStreetMap<\/a> software ecosystem. I am happy to pursue this for either real-world websites or for geofiction. The below are some sites that all fall in the geofiction space. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/arhet.rent-a-planet.com\">Arhet<\/a> (my first, currently with about 20 active users)<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/rahet.rent-a-planet.com\">Rahet<\/a> (still in development)<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/andulsidis.geofictician.net\">Andulsidis<\/a> (a private map server which I host)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Most recently, through the summer of 2021, I have taken over hosting and providing tech support for a major (arguably <em>the<\/em> major) geofiction map-drawing website: <a href=\"https:\/\/opengeofiction.net\">opengeofiction.net<\/a>. I fully rebuilt the site from scratch. It currently has over 200 active users and a dynamic community of geofiction hobbyists involved in and using the site daily. It&#8217;s by far the largest and most complex website I currently run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All of the websites below reside on my servers. My servers are on server farms located in either Fremont, California or Newark, New Jersey. I rent them from linode.com, which has excellent reliability and provides them with very high speed connections to the internet. Blogs I started out helping friends and acquaintances build their own&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/raggedsign.net\/index.php\/about\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Portfolio<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raggedsign.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raggedsign.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raggedsign.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raggedsign.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raggedsign.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/raggedsign.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raggedsign.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}