Moving PostGIS databases between machines
PostGIS is really, really fantastic software. I love it.
Pair it with GeoDjango to smooth out the api and you have lots of power in your hands.
On unfortunate side effect of how PostGIS is implemented is that you end up with absolute filesystem path references in your databases. This makes moving a database between machines [...]
Using hg-git to work in git and push to hg
hg-git is a fantastic project by GitHub’s Scott Chacon that allows bidirectional communication between Mercurial and Git.
Most of the documentation is angled towards hg users contributing to git projects but being more in the git camp I have the reverse use for it.
Here are the basic steps I follow to get set up to work [...]