Mateusz Loskot

http://ustream.tv/channel/foss4g2007

Victoria,BC is a beautiful city. Stop. The weather is fully satisfying. Stop. People here are fantastic. Stop. The FOSS4G 2007 rocks! Stop. More on the flickr. Stop. (mloskot)

More on:

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/mloskot/
• http://www.foss4g2007.org/pictures/

In my daily work, I have to run GDAL builders very often and simultaneously. Each time I need to request new builds, I have to make 20-30 clicks. So, when it’s third or fifth round of building, every click hurts :) and here comes the genius of Python language.

I wrote a simple utility script - gdalbb.py - that simplifies running one:

gdalbb.py -b telascience-quick

or whole family of builders from the GDAL Buildbot instance:

gdalbb.py -f

in one shot. It can also list all builders available from the Buildbot instance:

mloskot@dog:~ gdalbb.py -l
Connecting to GDAL Buildbot instance: http://buildbot.osgeo.org:8500/
List of available builders :
1. telascience-quick
2. telascience-full
3. epimetheus-full
4. szekerest-vc80-full
5. szekerest-vc71-full
6. szekerest-vc80x64-full

It’s very easy to customize the gdalbb.py script to use it with other Buildbot instances available for OSGeo projects. Just edit three values in the configuration block of the script:

### BEGIN CONFIGURATION BLOCK ###
BBURL = 'http://buildbot.osgeo.org:8500/'
BBUSER = 'mloskot'
BBNOTE = 'Routine build'
#### END CONFIGURATION BLOCK ####

That’s it!

Perhaps, as a next step, it would be a good idea to make this script usable as an IRC bot.

Short announcement, today I set up small mirror for FWTools - Open Source GIS Binary Kit for Windows and Linux. It’s available through HTTP under http://fwtools.loskot.net.

Recently, some users reported they have problems with accessing the main FWTools website from various countries, like China, so perhaps this mirror will help them to access the package without any problems.

Please, drop me a note if you’ve encountered problems with accessing the fwtools.loskot.net server.

Spread the FWTools!

Update 2007-09-14 06:50:12 UTC

Added download statistics - http://loskot.net/stats_fwtools.php

Update 2007-09-07 20:44:47 UTC

I think it may be helpful if users know geographical location of the fwtools.loskot.net mirror:

• IP: 67.19.42.2
• City: Dallas Texas
• Country: United States
• Time Zone: CST

This is a short announcement about two upcoming conferences for developers and IT professionals in Europe. This year, both events are hosted in Barcelona, Spain:

• Microsoft TechEd Developers 2007 - 5-9 November 2007
• Microsoft TechEd IT Forum 2007 - 12-16 November 2007