Alex Sorokine's Random Notes

Newer versions of PostgreSQL and PostGIS (9.3 and 2.1) have some nice features like materialized view and raster support respectively. My ex...

My question on stackoverflow : I am looking for a library to parse command-line parameters that would work identically in Java, C/C++, P...

This morning I found my Mac desktop stuck on logout. I did not want to force reboot it so I did some peeking around for how to logout peace...

Here is a snippet of Java code that will permute indexes of an array: For working Java class see https://github.com/sorokine/FischerKrause

I have created a page on PostGIS wiki with the description of the random point functions:  http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki/UserWikiRandom...

This is a revised random-point-in-polygon function first discussed in my earlier post . It turns out that in some weird cases (multipolygon...

Check the revised version of this post. This is a function that I wrote to generate a random point inside a polygon. It works by first g...