Yearly Archives: 2005

The technical session agenda for the Developer Summit has been posted, and as promised, it’s targeted at the experienced developer. SOAs, Web Services, Performance and Security all have their own sessions. Awesome! While the whole list of sessions look really … Continue reading →

Recently I’ve been working with a data access layer that I did not write, and thus did not know very well (To tie this to “Arc” Development, this DAL stores ArcIMS map service settings and user permission in a database). This led to a … Continue reading →

Wow! With the length of the thread over at James Fee’s Spatially Adjusted blog, apparently developer support issues have really hit a nerve. I added my comments to the end of that long list, but thought I’d drop them here … Continue reading →

After my post about what I considered to be a lack-luster start to the Denver Developer User Group (apparently things got better at the end of the meeting), Jeremiah Lindemann of ESRI Denver (who led the presentation) emailed me to … Continue reading →

It seems that some people have already located it, but I’ll make this the “formal” announcement of the ArcDeveloper blog. This will be a group blog (more authors = more posts!), dedicated to Arc Developement topics. I think it’s worth … Continue reading →

So I upgraded our internal development ArcSDE serverfrom 8.3 to 9.0 (so it would be running on my EDN licenses and we could drop the “commercial” license). Anyhow, all went well, and I moved on to other issues (ArcGIS Server … Continue reading →

A friend sent me interesting article on the future of GIS & Spatial Information Managment (SIM) over on GeoCommunity. The article presents the results of an IDC study on the industry, and their 5-year forcast. Interesting quote #1: “From enterprise … Continue reading →

After posting my description of the ESRI Developer Group meeting, I got to thinking about the term “Developer” or “GIS Developer”, and what that entails. At the meeting, which was specifically called a “Developer User Group”, many if not most … Continue reading →

I was excited when I heard about the “Denver ESRI Developers User Group Meeting” down at the ESRI Denver offices. So, today, a colleague and I drove 50 miles down there to attend. Since ESRI seems to be trying to … Continue reading →

We’re looking for a motivated person to join our cutting edge geospatial development team. Located in Fort Collins, this tight knit team is focused on building cutting edge GIS application using both ESRI and OGC technologies. This position is focused … Continue reading →