A Backup Story

One of the strangest  IT experience of my software career so far. As an independent contractor and software developer I have to maintain all of my own computers so while I am not a professional IT person I do have a lot of experience since I’ve built all of my development machines from scratch (parts) for the […]

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Comparing performance of GDAL and Proj.NET

There are two major free/open source projection libraries available for use under .NET: GDAL and Proj.NET. GDAL has a long history, and is written in C++, so it’s compiled to machine code. The C# bindings are generated by a tool. Calling C++ from C# uses a process called “pinvoke” (Platform Invoke), and a certain amount […]

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