Reminder about Paul’s Classics

It’s nothing new, but a reminder of brilliant and completely unbiased overview of MapServer by Paul Ramsey. If you haven’t enjoy it yet, do it now!

MapServer is not for lazy people! lazy people, you may leave now!

And, it’s not a bug, it’s a feature!

Steven’s comment made me to re-think the sentence above and generalise it to the one below:

Free and Open Source Software is not for lazy people!

Although, I’m aware of the fact for many it may sound like a platitude, but it still applies.

FWTools 2.2.4 for Windows

Frank has just released and announced new version of FWTools 2.2.4. It brings new versions of:

  • GDAL 1.6.0dev (2008-08-05, current SVN trunk)
  • PROJ.4 4.6.1 (2008-07-21)
  • MapServer 5.3-dev (2008-08-05, current SVN trunk)

Also, one bug related to HDF5 format has been fixed.

The new installer FWTools224.exe is available from the primary site or mirror site