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Building and Installing PostGIS from Source

Jeff Benshetler — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 00:05:56 +0000

Prerequisites PostgreSQL You need to already have PostgreSQL, its dev package, and it libraries installed. On Fedora-based distributions, it looks like this: [crayon-662aba25b39a6203730092/] Eat Your Wheaties Setup local time zone. Update installed packages. Reboot. [crayon-662aba25b39b0464318330/] Install Essential Prerequisite Packages [crayon-662aba25b39b2309951816/] Build PostGIS Prerequisites For each of the following libraries, we go through these steps:

Perl One Liners

Jeff Benshetler — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 15:06:26 +0000

Overview Perl has a reputation as a write-only language and one that is difficult to use. While you can write unreadable code in any language, aspects of Perl make it difficult for novices to read and encourage poor readability. There is one area where Perl remains the unquestioned champion: one-liners. One Liner Perl was originally

Password Management

Jeff Benshetler — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 13:57:59 +0000

Password Managers There are literally hundreds of hosts, usernames, and password combinations that I have to keep track of. Having some piece of malware find and upload the Excel file that I used to keep my passwords in was simply an unacceptable risk. I needed something better. Here are my requirements: Requirements Must-Haves Secure, encrypting

My Favorite Tools for Web Development

Jeff Benshetler — Wed, 14 May 2014 16:46:23 +0000

SSH Connection My workstation runs Windows 7 x64 and while I have tried PuTTy and Cygwin, for stability and ease-of-user I’ve settled on using NetSarang’s XShell as my favorite SSH tool. PuTTy worked well for me until I started using Windows 7. With the advent of Windows 7, PuTTy began to drop connections intermittently. I

Threads using C++11 in 5 Minutes

Jeff Benshetler — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 23:46:25 +0000

Threads are seen as scary and strange. If used incorrectly, they can be frustrating and appear inconsistent. The good news is that C++11 has a great threading model and still links with useful libraries so you can get work done. Minimum to Use std::thread To use threads, you must know a little bit about how

Test Crayon Syntax Highlighter

Jeff Benshetler — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 23:37:26 +0000

[cpp title=”Crayon test”] #include iostream int main(int argc,char* argv[]) { std::cout << “Hello, world!\n”; } [/cpp]

Learning Web Programing in 2014

Jeff Benshetler — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 16:20:45 +0000

Give me just a second while I get comfortable in my rocking chair. Ahh, there we go. So, you want to learn to program the Web? Create a real project on which to learn. Write requirements for the project before you start. Do the project on something you care about. Learn to use the developer

Restructuring the Site

Jeff Benshetler — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 21:16:14 +0000

Newspaper vs. Encyclopedia Something Old The material I have posted to this blog falls generally can be classified as “timely” or “reference.” Looking at the articles, I see too many reference-type articles in the blog which is essentially “timely.” That is, much of what I have posted to the blog, which is like a newspaper,

AmScope Boom Arm MicroScope

Jeff Benshetler — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:58:14 +0000

Updating PHP on CentOS 6.3

Jeff Benshetler — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 14:24:46 +0000

Despite the fact that this references i386 when installing the repository, the subsequent package updates work for x86_64. [bash] rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm yum –enablerepo=remi,remi-test install httpd php php-common yum –enablerepo=remi,remi-test install php-pecl-apc php-cli php-pear php-pdo php-mysql php-pgsql php-pecl-mongo php-sqlite php-pecl-memcache php-pecl-memcached php-gd php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-xml service httpd restart [/bash]