404 Not Found

Building and Installing PostGIS from Source

By Jeff BenshetlerDecember 15, 2014GIS Libraries, Software

Prerequisites PostgreSQL You need to already have PostgreSQL, its dev package, and it libraries installed. On Fedora-based distributions, it looks like this:

[root@branchpoint build]# rpm -qa | sort | grep -i postgresql 
postgresql92-9.2.9-1.46.amzn1.x86_64
postgresql92-devel-9.2.9-1.46.amzn1.x86_64
postgresql92-libs-9.2.9-1.46.amzn1.x86_64
postgresql92-server-9.2.9-1.46.amzn1.x86_64
postgresql92-server-compat-9.2.9-1.46.amzn1.x86_64
[root@branchpoint build]#

[root@branchpoint build]# rpm -qa | sort | grep -i postgresql

postgresql92-9.2.9-1.46.amzn1.x86_64

postgresql92-devel-9.2.9-1.46.amzn1.x86_64

postgresql92-libs-9.2.9-1.46.amzn1.x86_64

postgresql92-server-9.2.9-1.46.amzn1.x86_64

postgresql92-server-compat-9.2.9-1.46.amzn1.x86_64

[root@branchpoint build]#

Eat Your Wheaties Setup local time zone. Update installed packages. Reboot.

sudo ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago /etc/localtime
sudo yum update -y
sudo shutdown -r now

sudo ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago /etc/localtime

sudo yum update -y

sudo shutdown -r now

Install Essential Prerequisite Packages

sudo yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
sudo yum -y install readline-devel
sudo yum -y install zlib-devel libxml2-devel wget vim

sudo yum groupinstall "Development Tools"

sudo yum -y install readline-devel

sudo yum -y install zlib-devel libxml2-devel wget vim

Build PostGIS Prerequisites For each of the following libraries, we go through these steps:

Perl One Liners

By Jeff BenshetlerNovember 3, 2014Server Side, Software, Tools, Tutorial

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

By Jeff BenshetlerJuly 15, 2014Review, Software

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

By Jeff BenshetlerMay 14, 2014Tools, Web

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

By Jeff BenshetlerMarch 26, 2014C++, Softwarec++, c++11, file scope function, member function, static member function, thread

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

By Jeff BenshetlerMarch 26, 2014Uncategorized

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

Learning Web Programing in 2014

By Jeff BenshetlerJanuary 31, 2014Webcss, html, jQuery, learning, validator

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