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List of Entries in 2010 ESRI Mashup Challenge

Mar 8, 2010 7:58pm

The entries really piled in during the last week of the contest. Now that it’s closed, I’ve created a YouTube Playlist of the entries by doing searches at YouTube for the required keywords (“ESRI 2010 Mashup Challenge”) There were quite a wide range of entries – some that looked like they...

Visualizing Executive Compensation

Feb 28, 2010 2:30pm

When we heard about the ESRI Mashup Challenge, my team and I knew we were going to enter – the question was just what should we build. About that same time there was another flare up in the righteous indignation about the bonuses paid to AIG executives. We got to...

Dev Summit Talks: Vote Now!

Jan 20, 2010 9:36pm

The Community presentations for the 2010 ESRI Developer Summit are now listed on-line, and are open for voting. Since these presentations are all recorded, you don’t have to be attending the Dev Summit to vote – just setup an account (free) and vote for what you want to see –...

2010 – A good year for the Dark Arts

Jan 13, 2010 3:47pm

Ruby on Rails may not be on a Lovecraftian list of “Dark Arts”, but for someone who’s been developing on the Microsoft platform for the last 10 years, it’s close enough. As anyone who’s read this blog in the last 2 years knows, I’m a pretty big fan of Microsoft ASP.NET...

Zen and the Art of ServerObjectExtensions

Dec 14, 2009 3:53pm

I was going to cook up a full SOE example, but that was going to take way more time that I don’t have, so here’s the abridged version – just the major points… Projects in the Solution SOE’s have a lot of moving parts, so let’s think about all the parts in...

Re-mixing the Flex Sample Viewer

Nov 18, 2009 3:57pm

The ESRI Flex Sample Viewer is a great starting point for creating map centric RIA’s. The widgetized nature of the starter kit facilitates significant re-use of components, and there are a couple dozen plug-and-play components available from the Flex Code Gallery. Woot! The downside of this ease of re-use is that...

Usability for Emergency Response Applications

Nov 17, 2009 9:09pm

I finally got around to loading a video of my talk on Usability in Emergency Response Applications, given at the ESRI South West User Group (SWUG) meeting. In this talk I give a walk-through of an app we built using the ESRI Javascript API, focusing on design aspects that helped...

Using Log4Net in ArcMap COM Extensions/Commands etc

Oct 15, 2009 2:49pm

I was building an edit task for ArcMap today, and got to a point where I had the geometry operations solid (using Test-Driven-Development for them) but when I got to iterating over sets of real data, I though it would be really handy to use a logger to kick out...

Speaking at ESRI SWUG Next Week…

Oct 15, 2009 6:12am

Just a quick note that I’ll be giving two talks next week at the ESRI South West Users Group (#SWUG09) meeting in Pueblo, Colorado. It will be nice to attend another conference that I don’t have to fly to! I’ll be giving an updated talk on Usability as related to “GeoWeb”...

GeoGeek.tv: Talkin Flex with Royce Simpson

Oct 8, 2009 9:42pm

UPDATE: Apparently Royce has been slammed by the flu and will be re-scheduling – we’ll still talk Flex, and other random stuff though Tomorrow, Oct 9th, we will be chatting with Royce Simpson, the developer who built the award winning City of Greeley “ORIGIN” mapping applications. (Royce is on the right,...