A geospatial career journey
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa Jimmy Buffet, "Fruitcakes," 1994 I hate writing tests. With the white-hot passion of a thousand suns. Tests are good and necessary for quality software. Automating tests is the core of any CI/CD pipeline worthy of the name. I am well-versed in the value of tests and testing. I … Continue reading A Grudging Thanks to Tests
FOSS4G North America was an opportunity for me to reconnect with both community and technology. I enjoyed being able to both learn new things and refresh my skills with technologies such as PostGIS. I was reflecting on how, a couple weeks prior to the conference, I introduced the concept of PostgreSQL window functions to a … Continue reading Window Functions and PostGIS
I completed the Marine Corps Marathon (MCM) yesterday. This was my third time running it. It wasn’t my greatest performance, primarily due to heat and humidity. By mile 14, I was feeling really bad and went into active recovery mode. After a couple of miles, I had recovered enough to pick up intervals again and … Continue reading Medal Monday
FOSS4G North America (FOSS4GNA) wrapped up yesterday, closing out with another thought-provoking keynote by Paul Ramsey. Paul’s talks on the “economics of open source” have evolved over the years and, while this talk certainly discussed such economics, it was so much more. Paul is one of the best speakers you will see and his talks … Continue reading Initial Thoughts on FOSS4G North America
One of the first tasks I ever had in my then-new GIS career was doing AML development in ARC/INFO 6.x for a data production project. My code parsed DXF exported from AutoCAD R11 for DOS and then assigned attributes based on things like layer, color, line weight, feature type, and others. It also georeferenced the … Continue reading Data Over Software