Planning a Homestead Using GIS

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While this is more of an ArcGIS tutorial it has many ideas you can use with QGIS or your favorite GIS program. Some basics on digital elevation models and using raster math. Might even be better to do programmatically with R!

COBOL

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I don’t get why people hate the COBOL programming language so much. It might be old but so is the C language and SQL queries but neither of them is called obsolete. COBOL has some advantages in the office environment – it’s very easy to read and understand and all of data storage routines are up front. Plus usually each part of a COBOL program is quite simple – far less complicated than the casts, pointers and direct memory access functions in C – and much less prone to programming mistakes.

The Brandywine Highway

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... one of the few places in New York where cars can drive on left-hand side of the road, at least for three blocks.