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Generators Used as Counters 10 Feb 2013 | 12:33 am
I've a bit late to the Python generator party. My main problem in adoption was my lack of understanding of where I could apply the generator function concept. I always wanted to apply this tool to c...
Larry Berry (Mintec) 1962 - 2012 25 Dec 2012 | 07:03 am
This is another somewhat philosophical post. I promise I will post code and tangible how-to stuff again. A mentor of mine, the individual who turned me on to Python, has passed on. The whole deal w...
Plan for Pycon 2013 14 Dec 2012 | 03:52 am
I looked at the Pycon talks and events schedule and was a bit overwhelmed. There's just too much awesome, which is, for me, a bad thing. Basically I've got to narrow down a strategy and a scope for ...
The Ada Initiative - why I donated 14 Nov 2012 | 11:33 pm
This post has little to do with Python, but a fair bit to do with the programming community. I donated to the Ada Initiative recently. The option I went with was the $1/day for a year, or $365. In ...
pyeuclid, vector math, and polygon offset 4 Jul 2011 | 10:00 am
I had previously done a series of posts on polygon offset intended as a practical guide for accomplishing the task quickly. Some kind folks pointed out that I was making things considerably harder th...
2D geometry + infinite and zero slopes 3 Apr 2011 | 05:43 am
My last post dealt with a similar subject, but it didn't quite tell the whole story. No sooner had I posted it and attempted to implement it in a project, I ran into a problem. Granted, it was on a ...
Polygon Offset Revisited 28 Mar 2011 | 08:36 am
I had previously written a post concerning polygon offset that was incomplete in its scope. Specifically, it dodged the problem of horizontal and vertical lines in polygons. Since then I've had to c...
jython + joda-time 25 Mar 2011 | 01:39 pm
joda-time is a date-time library written in Java. It has advantages over Java's built in time utilities in terms of power and ease of use. It has some functionality that Python's own datetime librar...
WKT (Well Known Text) + JTS Topology + jython 20 Mar 2011 | 02:15 pm
The last few posts have dealt with the JTS Topology library. This one will wrap up that topic with a method for converting JTS's Geometry objects to and from text, WKT. WKT is a standard of the Open...
Polygon Buffering with JTS Topology and jython 19 Mar 2011 | 01:45 pm
Previously, I had done a post regarding polygon offset. It turns out that JTS Topology has polygon buffering capability. I wanted to try this out and compare it to my results from the polygon offset...
