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I just saw this blog post in rebuttal to Martin Fowler's DatabaseThaw article. It's a typically well-thought out response from Ty...

Martin Fowler has a great bliki TM post on DatabaseThaw . The soundbite is something like "What happens after relational DBs?". ...

The GEOS team is working on porting the JTS CascadedPolygonUnion algorithm. Reasonably enough they asked whether there were unit tests th...

I'm happy to announce that after a long gestation JTS 1.10 has been released. (This is my contribution to help fulfill James Fee's...

Via the OpenJUMP list comes this notice of the OGRS 2009: International Opensource Geospatial Research Symposium conference in Nantes, Fra...

Pie Charts are a nice way of displaying thematic visualization in Google Earth. They're also a good test of the chops of a KML generat...

After seeing this post on Wordle , I had to try it.... and there's no stopping at just one...

When I was but a wee nerdling, I took a course taught by a grizzled veteran of the computer industry. I can no longer remember the subject ...

Thanks to Sean I just learned about Roy Fielding's blog . I don't know why it never occurred to me that Roy Fielding would have a ...

By far the most difficult code in JTS to develop has been the buffer algorithm. It took a lot of hard graft of thinking, coding and testin...

Part of my summer holiday reading is the book Java Power Tools , by John Ferguson Smart. I count a computer book a good buy if I get one new...

You might think that the image below is a map of North America population density. You'd be off by one level of indirection... In fact ...

This great graph shows why we're all going to wrassling with parellelization for the rest of our coding lives: Source: Challenges and St...

Andrew Binstock has an interesting interview with Don Knuth . Professor Knuth makes a few surprising comments, including a low opinion of ...

Love him or hate, you have to admit that John Dvorak gives good copy : Vista is essentially the old hooker with a bad facelift and too much ...

Here's an interesting post on design practices for building massively-scalable apps on database infrastructure such as Google BigTable....

The GeoPDF format seems to be gaining traction these days. I have to admit, when I first heard of this technology I had the same reaction ...

The Google Earth imagery of Revelstoke Dam in B.C. ( below ) looks like it was taken in the depths of winter. Since this is a massive con...

In the era of cloud computing , map/reduce , dynamic languages and the semantic web , the stalwart Relational Database Management System i...

JAQL is a query language and engine which has XQuery -like syntax , SQL -like operators , JSON as a native data format, and runs using the...