Kurt's Weblog

I just noticed that a new editition of the USCG Proceedings is out:

Summer 2013 - The Arctic



Lots of interesting articles. e.g. Arctic Oil Spill Response Training.

I'm very excited to be able to say that Frank Warmerdam proposed me for commit access to GDAL and that last week the vote passed. I just made my first commit to the tree acknowledging that I've agreed to follow RFC 3: GDAL Commiter Guidelines. Now I just need to partition some stuff I've done into reasonable commit chunks and go through the process for release at Google.

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Re: [gdal-dev] Motion: Commit Access for Kurt Schwehr

Frank Warmerdam Tue, 13 Aug 2013 19:00:32 -0700

On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Frank Warmerdam  wrote:

> Motion: Commit Access to GDAL for Kurt Schwehr

I declare this motion passed with support from Daniel, Tamas, Even, Howard
and I.

Welcome abort Kurt!  I have svn enabled userid "goatbar" for the GDAL svn
group.  Please add yourself to the gdal/COMMITERS file.

A big update to fink packages. I wanted to switch to the new versions... ipython 1.0.0 is gonna be awesome. I use pylint everyday and it's now up to 1.0.0. matplotlib 1.3.0 forced me to remove the macosx backend. Very sad that it requires a framework build. Happy python hacking!

Trevor talks about units. What could handle units for magnetic fields where sqids measure emu's?

github comparing python quantities and Writing self-documenting scientific code using physical quantities: he recommends quantities (pypi).

This is a web only version of the mac open or linux xdg-open commands:

import webbrowser
webbrowser.open('http://docs.python.org/2/library/webbrowser.html')

I heard about webbrowser via Sorting with Pythonista, which also introduced me to the iOS Pythonista app for the ipad/iphone.