Gimp is open source image editing tool, which can be a replacement of Photoshop. I personally used this program 5~6 years ago as a replacement of photoshop or paintshop. At that time, this program looked promising but still buggy a lot. But, current version of Gimp is really improved for the last couple of years.… Continue reading Useful open source image editor: GIMP 2.8
Open sources for web map and geo location
Here are pure open source based web map and geo location database resources. Google map or Bing map is wonderful, but they require business contract for commercial use. It is said that Foursquare recently switched their map tool from Google map to open source based Leaflet API which looks like the picture below. This map… Continue reading Open sources for web map and geo location
Bulk data import to MSSQL
I was about to upload 2 million record of data using NHibernate’s default save method, which will transact every record independently. It estimated almost 2 days to upload all data. In this mass data upload, bulk import utility, bcp is pretty useful. It takes 10 minutes for 2 million record to import. Related well written article. http://lostechies.com/jimmybogard/2010/06/24/bulk-processing-with-nhibernate/ And… Continue reading Bulk data import to MSSQL
Resources for reading and writing photo meta tag like EXIF
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowswic/thread/fdbcd8f4-5d75-4c33-8bed-97ef03a65c70 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2755000/inplacebitmapmetadatawriter-trysave-returns-true-but-does-nothing http://www.andrewdothay.net/blog/2010/08/16/HowToEditMetaDataInsideJPGFilesWithC.aspx http://www.dreamincode.net/code/snippet3144.htm http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/TagNames/EXIF.html http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/TagNames/XMP.html#exif
C# Library for JSON
Namespace: Newtonsoft.Json.Linq Download: http://json.codeplex.com/