Back a few years ago, I used a code syntax highlighter called Code Viewer that was created by Aaron Schaefer at Elastic Dog. That has since been taken over by Håkan Carlström. I spent too many hours this weekend getting this plugin setup to parse Python source code. It uses GeSHi to highlight the code [...]
I’ve been running Windows XP Pro on my MacBook Pro for a few weeks now, and I have to say, I’m quite pleased. I have XP installed as a BootCamp partition, and at first, I booted into XP to do any GIS work. Lately, however, I’ve been working strictly in the VM, and ArcGIS works [...]
My battery on my almost 2-year old Macbook Pro finally crapped out, as pretty much all Apple batteries do I’m finding out. So I did some research and found out there was a battery recall for Macbook Pro batteries, but mine didn’t qualify according to the serial number, oh well. I then went for the [...]
After a two-plus year hiatus, I’m back on the Web. I decided it was time to start playing around on the Web again, and there are some Web-mapping things I’d like to toy around with, so I figured, what the hell, why not go with another WordPress install? So far so good; I was even [...]
After I got back from the ESRI PUG a few weeks ago, I installed and started playing around with IPython. I gave a talk at the PUG, and afterwards met a guy who told me I had to try it. Boy was he right. IPython is worth its weight in gold just on the surface [...]
“How ya doin?” A pretty simple, generic greeting, wouldn’t you say? Most people have their own generic greeting. Some use the timeless “Hey.”. Others use the classic “What’s up?”. Me? I use “How ya doin?”. Always have, probably always will. The thing with generic greetings is that they are just that – generic. They’re not [...]
I finally found the time to finish some maps I had been working on for quite some time. Watersheds of Arkansas is one I had started back in 2003, and just never got a chance to finish. I’m very pleased with how it turned out though. The detail in the elevation is amazing. Took me [...]
I had been reading about del.icio.us for quite a while now, and about how cool it was. Last week, I broke down and gave it a shot. Wow. It’s pretty slick. For those of you out there you haven’t heard of del.icio.us yet, it’s a social bookmarks manager. You get an account (it’s all free), [...]
I sometimes think that if it weren’t for conditional logic, Excel would be practically useless. I use Excel alot, just about every day. And just about every day, it aggravates me. But then there are the times when I figure something out, some cool way to convert numbers or perform a calculation, and Excel has [...]
Aahhh, the command line, also referred to as the Command Prompt or DOS prompt. You tell most people these days to open up Command Prompt and they respond with a “Huh?”. Try it sometime. We’ve all grown so accustomed to pretty, fancy-schmancy GUIs, it’s easy to forget about our good ole long lost friend, Mr. [...]
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