[GRASS-user] Thanks from a new PhD

2008-05-27 Thread Hamner, Jesse Harrison
All, My warmest thanks to the GRASS developers and to the user community. I successfully defended my PhD in political science last week. Using perl, Fortran, bash, and MySQL along with GRASS, I created country-level drought data for all countries and river basins from 1947 - 2001. All that work

Re: [GRASS-user] Database for GRASS

2007-12-06 Thread Hamner, Jesse Harrison
Kurt, I'm very pleased with MySQL's performance on both linux (Gentoo) and Mac OS X; a big bonus for me is that I can use the ODBC connector for MySQL with my statistics package (Stata) and the JDBC connector for MySQL with OpenOffice's Base. Further, Perl's MySQL interface is very solid and lets