After 5 months since last release of Boost 1.35, new version has been announced. It brings four new libraries: accumulators, exception, unit, unordered and a number of fixes and improvements to existing libraries.
Find more details on the page Version 1.36.0
The libLAS project is getting closer to final release of 1.0.0 version. Today, Howard announced that 1.0.0 Beta 2 has been released. Source package is available at las-1.0.0b2.tar.bz2 (MD5).
libLAS is a BSD library for reading and writing LIDAR data encoded in ASPRS LAS File Format
The libLAS package include a bunch of command line utilities for processing LAS files.
The Beta 2 version, includes API for C, C++ and Python programming language. Recently, Martin Rodriguez from STEREOCARTO has contributed libLAS bindings for .NET and Mono platforms. It’s available in SVN trunk with bunch of tutorials provided. Kudos to Martin for his great work!
To everybody who works with ASPRS LAS data, we would appreciate your help in testing usability and stability of libLAS software. Don’t hesitate to post your comments to the liblas-devel mailing list.
It’s time to take a look in the mirror and bare all the devilish traits of my exhibitionistic ;-) personality.
…is no longer hypothetical
Microsoft joined the O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention (OSCON) this year. Why? Because Free and Open Source Software development is anti-American cancer and an intellectual-property destroyer. It does seem pretty logical, doesn’t it ;-)
Last Thursday, Microsoft announced they plan to launch Open Source Lab in the Philippines in September 2008. The company officials promised:
It will be open to open source and cross-platform enthusiasts, including students, professionals, companies and users groups
Also during OSCON 2008, Microsoft pledged annual donation of $100,000 USD to the Apache Software Foundation becoming platinum sponsor of Apache development.
These are not the first “positive” initiatives by Microsoft targeting Open Source Software. They have Linux Interoperability Lab and an Open Source Software Lab already running. The general idea is to collaborate with non-profit open source groups around the world.
Will OSGeo be one of these groups?
Frank has just released and announced new version of FWTools 2.2.4. It brings new versions of:
Also, one bug related to HDF5 format has been fixed.
The new installer FWTools224.exe is available from the primary site or mirror site
Recently, I’ve been playing with Sanoodi – activity-based social networking website for participants in sports and leisure activities. The idea of Sanoodi is very similar to Sports Tracker by Nokia.
The Sanoodi version 1.1.0.0 is based on Google Maps API. It works well, rarely reporting errors. Today, I migrated my account to Sanoodi Beta available for mysterious Friday the 13th (month unspecified :-)). Besides new & ugly user interface, I’ve encountered that mapping capabilities in Beta are based on OpenLayers engine. Great choice, if my vote counts. The core of Sanoodi application is based on Django framework. Another good choice :-)
If you are doing any outdoor activities, Sanoodi is a nice gadget and worth to try. I recommend to use version 1.1.0.0 for regular diary. In my opinion, the Beta version is still unusable. It is throwing errors while saving preferences or uploading GPX file, Save button for new route sees to be not even linked, etc. BTW, I’ve reported all my problems to the Sanoodi Team. Hopefully, they will fix it soon.