Lin.ear th.inking

Andrew Oliver lays out the 10 Step Program for developers .  Here's his points: Blog Go open source Not six months, not 10 years Ey...

It's no longer novel to observe that Open Source is, if not the dominant software paradigm of the era, at least one of the most signific...

Ragnvald Larsen has an interesting post on ways to mitigate the poor performance and stabilty of Dissolve computations in ArcGIS.  Dissolv...

Tim Bray thinks Uncle Bob Martin's post on Functional Programming Basics is the cat's pyjamas. Meh. "Basics" is the ...

I've heard before about the postulated link between atmospheric lead levels (courtesy of the leaded gasoline used through the middle dec...

A look back at 2012 from a software technology perspective by some of my favourite blogs: Inspired By Actual Events  - a wide-reaching r...

I'm to announce that JTS 1.13 has been released.  It's available for download from SourceForge . There is a long list of new featu...

The always-readable Stephen O'Grady has an insightful post titled  Do Not Underestimate the Power of Convenience .  He proposes that an ...

The usual US election map is a starkly simplistic collection of red and blue blobs.  This does reflect the esoteric (to a Canadian) Electora...

Don Meltz initiated a fascinating flurry of performance evaluation with his post on Is QGIS a Viable Alternative to ArcGIS? and its followu...

Thanks to OpenGeo , last weekend I attended the OpenStreetMap State of the Map (US) conference in Portland, Oregon. It was a great conferen...

A while ago I posted on generating random point sets , and Sean Gillies suggested Halton sequences as a way of generating nice-looking poin...