June 28th, 2009
My friend Jo asked on GEOS mailing list for approachable explanation of spatial relations and Dale Lutz from Safe Software suggested something I’ve not came across myself before and what (in generalised form) I’d consider as a great idea for…a book really :-)
Posted in books, geos, gis | 1 Comment »
June 25th, 2009
My wife asked me: Buy sausages, if you’ll find eggs, buy 10. What happens next?
Option #1:
if eggs >= 10 then buy(sausages, eggs=10);
Option #2:
if sausages > 0 then buy(sausages);
if eggs >= 10 then buy(eggs, 10);
Option #3
buy(sausages);
if eggs >= 10 then buy(eggs, 10);
The 3rd option is dangerous one because it could end up with never-ending run in the city looking for sausages, never buying eggs and never coming back home.
…and more. Why?
Asking me to make shopping, my wife did not stick to the principles of valid inference and correct reasoning. That’s the reason why not everybody can be a programmer :-)
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June 25th, 2009
In times when independence is a deadly sin and in times of Google-like NDA-ization of nearly all professional activities of an individual…
…it’s quite extra-ordinary to have enough courage to shout out:
I don’t speak for my employer. For example, our site is one of those Flashy Internet dead-ends I’d never enter. See? I don’t speak for them.
or may be no courage is needed to criticize bad design ;-) BTW, it must be an old critique by Yossi. Now their website looks good.
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June 24th, 2009
I’ve just finished uploading photos taken on the OSGIS UK 2009 in Nottingham, so here is the set.
I’ve re-re-re-learned the lesson that light conditions in a conference venue is bad and I should always bring a proper strobe. Otherwise, pictures are dark or very grained (high ISO) or blured (mostly, unless your name is Arnold The Steel Grip). Ah, one more thing, don’t buy a DSLR with lens included, it simply is a waste of money. The kit lens is a piece of @#$%^&!, so just buy a body and then buy a proper (read: expansive) lens from Pentax (or Sigma). To quote the classics:
you are awesome
you have awesome camera
but it’s useless
without (proper) lens
Anyway, it’s always nice to have some photolog after events, even if the pictures are of bad quality.
Posted in author, events, fun, gis, osgeo | 2 Comments »
June 23rd, 2009
I had been thinking about developing something like that since I started to use Mac OS X as my development environment, but I left my Apple boxes at home in PL and now I’ve switched back to Linux (you simply can’t forget your roots :-)) . So, the idea has been swapped in the abyss of my mind until I accidentally came across GISLook five minutes ago:
GISLook and GISMeta are plugins for Mac OS X 10.5 that show GIS data in the Finder.
These cool-looking plugins were created by Bernhard Jenny.
I know many GIS users loving products of the forbidden fruit, so I’m spreading the word about these nice looking and, hopefully, well working tools.
Posted in gis, gui, osx, tools | 2 Comments »
June 21st, 2009
Tomorrow early morning I’m leaving to Nottingham to attend the OSGIS UK 2009 conference. It’s been long time since FOSS4G 2007 and I didn’t make it to Cape Town last year, so I’m looking forward to meet FOSS4G and OSGeo folks in UK.
A few minutes ago, Suchith Anand announced there will be live streaming transmission available from OSGIS sessions. This is cool!
By the way, does anyone remember a kind of pioneer transmission from FOSS4G 2006 in Lausanne? The videos are still linked but seem to be unavailable. Pity. It would be cool to archive them somewhere on foss4g.org.
Posted in events, gis, open source, osgeo | No Comments »
