One of the hurdles of starting to use Latex for document creation after getting used to Word is "is there spelling AND grammar checking?" I am happy to say there is a solution to this problem.

I created some code in Octave/Matlab to generate latex table from matrix data. I created this because in my case I was tuning some data and algorithms for a paper I was writing and I loathed entering my data into the latex over and over in large tables.

The …

This post is an example of how to insert an array of polygons into the Postgres database using Python and psycopg2.

The most important and problematic part of inserting a polygon array is the string formatting for the polygon[].

The first thing I tried was to just make a string …

This post is about some work I did on how to calculate the number of number of groups of intersecting polygons in an array of polygons in Postgresql


First lets be a little more strict about what the definition of an island is. For the purposes of this algorithm an …

This is short guide on how to install Twiki ~5.13 on Ubuntu 12.04. This guide has a fix or two that was not present in any other guide I found.

1. Install all of the relevant dependencies.
   
   
   sudo apt-get install apache2 libgdal-perl libcgi-session-perl libhtml-tree-perl liberror-perl libfreezethaw-perl libgd2-xpm rcs libapache2-mod-perl2-doc …