Monthly Archives: May 2009

Windows 7 and XP

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I have been trying the Windows 7 beta, and i must admit it is pretty awesome. What is less awesome is the fact that now the RC is released, and i have to reinstall all my Windows 7 machines (three –i admit i was a bit too enthusiastic). And if i do that, once the [...]

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fixing the geometric metadata and spatial indexes

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When storing spatial data into Oracle, there are a few steps one needs to complete (as shown here too): insert the data (obviously) update the USER_SDO_GEOM_METADATA table. This table specifies for each column the bounding box and the SRID (coordinate system). create a spatial index I have created a script to this automatically for me, [...]

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showing international or accented characters

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I am now working in Ruby on Rails for about a month. I have done a few smaller things before, investigating, trying out; but now I am really building a full application site in Rails! It feels great :) But of course, just starting out in such a new environment, both ruby and rails, I [...]

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