Derek Dohler

Introducing Loam: A Client-Side GDAL Wrapper for Javascript

By Derek Dohler on May 3rd, 2021

We're launching a library called Loam. Loam allows GDAL to be used in client-side code in a web application. Loam wraps a version of GDAL compiled to WebAssembly and makes the GDAL API and utilities available to Javascript running from within a web browser.

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Company

A Guide for Grantmakers: How to Evaluate Software Development Proposals

By Derek Dohler on November 9th, 2020

Grantmaking organizations are often asked to fund software development, but are unsure of how to evaluate the scope, budget, or potential impact of these types of projects. We created this list of the key questions to ask when evaluating a software development proposal.

Software Engineering

Strategies for reducing memory usage in Django migrations

By Derek Dohler on February 23rd, 2017

If you’ve ever written a data migration on a large table in Django, you may have run into problems running...

Software Engineering

Solving Unicode Problems in Python 2.7

By Derek Dohler on March 24th, 2014

UnicodeDecodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t decode byte 0xd1 in position 1: ordinal not in range(128) (Why is this so hard??) One...