http://www.super-cooper.com Python, GIS, and a sprinkling of mindless drivel Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:19:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is a presentation I gave last February at the ESRI Petroleum User Group conference in Houston, TX. I just discovered SlideShare the other day. Python And GIS - Beyond Modelbuilder And PythonwinView SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: esri pug) http://www.super-cooper.com/archive/2008/11/15/python-and-gis-beyond-modelbuilder-and-pythonwin/ I'm way behind on posting this, but here goes. The first annual pyArkansas Python conference was held by pyar^2, the Python Artists of Arkansas , on October 4th on the campus of the University of Central Arkansas in Conway. We were very graciously hosted by the Department of Computer Science in ... http://www.super-cooper.com/archive/2008/10/30/pyarkansas-2008-a-huge-success/ Are you kidding me? I'm a major amatuer at anything .NET, and after some Googling and about 15 minutes of coding, this works. How ridiculously easy. [viewcode] src="execute-stored-procedure.cs" geshi=csharp showsyntax=no link=yes[/viewcode] http://www.super-cooper.com/archive/2008/08/16/executing-a-sql-server-stored-procedure-in-c/ My (hopefully first of many) article on GIS and Python has been published in the Spring 2008 edition of ESRI's ArcUser magazine. You can get the pdf here , and the code listings here . http://www.super-cooper.com/archive/2008/08/10/im-published-in-arcuser/ I finally got around to getting a Subversion repository setup, so the latest development version of my flickuploadr.py can be checked out: svn co http://svn.super-cooper.com/flickruploadr/trunk or you can just get it at: http://svn.super-cooper.com/flickruploadr/trunk http://www.super-cooper.com/archive/2008/08/09/flickruploadrpy-now-in-svn/ I just turned the corner from the kitchen to the dining room, and met up with our three year old son, and he hit me with this: Oh, the brutal honesty that is childhood. http://www.super-cooper.com/archive/2008/08/09/i-ate-it/ I finally got around to getting Conversation Viewer into the WordPress plugins SVN repository. Been meaning to do that for a while. Version 1.0.0 can be had from the trunk at: http://svn.wp-plugins.org/conversation-viewer/trunk/ The writeup and instructions/examples of usage can be found here . http://www.super-cooper.com/archive/2008/07/19/converation-viewer-now-an-official-wordpress-plugin/ I've attempted to use the Flickr Uploadr for the last few years, and it never has impressed me. It always fails, usually after only about 10 pictures, which really sucks when you are trying to upload hundreds of pictures, which I usually do. So last night, I had over 300 ... http://www.super-cooper.com/archive/2008/06/29/flickr-uploadr-for-mac-sucks-python-and-the-flickr-api-to-the-rescue/ Generally, when most people learn that I am a geologist by training, they are surprised. Maybe I just give off some sort of geeky aura, or maybe they are surprised that I'm not "using my degree" (actually I am in a way, but that is too convoluted a story to ... http://www.super-cooper.com/archive/2008/04/23/oops/ Finding the right Web host isn't easy. Google "<web host name> review" for virtually any host out there, and you will find a plethora of both positive and negative feedback. Chances are, you're going to find more negative feedback than positive just about every time. A month or so ago, ... http://www.super-cooper.com/archive/2008/04/23/move-to-webfaction/