Month: March 2021

  • Welcome to the world of M.2

    M.2 is a standard for SSDs (Solid State Disks). As everyone knows, SSDs are starting to replace hard drives and have the advantage of much faster performance. They come in a number of different form factors and one of the first available was the same as the existing hard drives for laptops and using the…

  • Galaxy A12: After Six Weeks

    So I have owned this phone now for six weeks. It has been one of the very few times I have bought a phone that was a completely new model, but it was offered on special at just the right time when I needed to replace my existing phone and had the right combination of…

  • NZRM Webmaps Development Update 2021-03-17 [2]

    Part 1 of this series took a look at some of the technical history of developing the webmaps project. This part will discuss some of the present and future challenges in the NZ Rail Maps Webmaps. As the initial stage of putting all of NZ online in the webmaps is nearing completion, attention will soon…

  • 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…