I’ve been using GeoDjango for some time now, and found myself in a situation where I wanted to retrieve raster metadata using the ST_MetaData function on some datasets stored in PostGIS.
To do so, you can of course use the raw function from the db Manager, but for this I went the extra mile (although, it’s more like the extra half-mile, since it’s very easy)
You are in for a treat, static websites are back from the dead (they never left, but were not prominent nor sexy). Combine this with the cheapness of file hostings like S3 and you have a winner here.
A common situation for us (people in the programming/computing/processing world) is that we don’t always work with the same tools as some of our non-tech peers.
Case in point, I received a big bunch of files in XLS/XLSX format, very big files, LibreOffice has trouble working with them. Since I want to perform quick processing on that data, and I already have scripts that process similar data in CSV, the simplest path is to transform those files to plain, ugly, useful CSV files.
Then again, there are 100 files, and I don’t feel like dancing around each one: opening, clicking save as, selecting CSV, telling LibreOffice that this is a semicolon separated CSV file … etc etc.
Entering pandas.
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Unit testing is something that lots of developers are used to, and in environments like Python or Java can be even bundled in some awesome libraries. Easy to use, easy to implement, great results.
Then it comes C Embedded: The environment is different, even the people is different!!. Praising the benefits of unit testing is not that easy sometimes, even writing the unit test functions is not as straigtforward.
In this post, I’ll talk about Unity, a small unit test library for C.
A simple post on how to configure a Logitech Trackman Marble on GNU/Linux. This post is tested on Ubuntu but since this is Xorg configuration it should be usable almost everywhere.
I discovered XCircuit when looking for an easy and quick way to generate a schematic.
Since I am not going to simulate it, it would be enough to have a vector design program like Inkscape, but it’s never too late to learn a tool that may prove useful in the future.
There are other bigger, better, stronger EDA tools: Geda, KiCAD, EagleCAD… but I settled for something designed for publications.
(…)program for drawing publishable-quality electrical circuit schematic diagrams and related figures(…)
— XCircuit website
In this post you’ll find a quick overview of XCircuit, and how to create a module with it.
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