Yearly Archives: 2006

Preface – I’ve been really busy lately, and am just catching up on the my blog reading while flying out to the East Coast. Thanks to RSSBandit and w.Bloggar offline reading and posting works pretty smoothly. So – Slashgeo gets … Continue reading →

Just catching up on my blog reading, and read some posts about Web 2.0 and “Labs” by Adena at AllPoints and James Fee. One thing I think they both miss is what makes a “Labs” effort successful: customer feedback. It’s … Continue reading →

Lets face it ArcGIS Server is not fast. Any there are many processes (raster modeling, map production, data extraction etc) that simply can not be completed in the typical web request response time frame. In a recent project, I was … Continue reading →

Last Thursday I gave a presentation on Unit Testing with ArcObjects at the Fort Collins ArcDeverloper User Group. The presentation gives an overview of unit testing in general, how ArcObjects complicates things, and reviews one methodology that can be used … Continue reading →

After my previous post, I got an email from a reader internal to ESRI (since it was an email and not a comment, I’ll allow them to remain anonymous) pointing me to two new (April 10th) techincal articles which address … Continue reading →

One of the big promises of ArcGIS Server is that you can build web services that access ArcObjects. This opens up all kinds of interesting options. But some of the requirements of using those (DCOM) ArcObjects cause problems in object-oriented … Continue reading →

Test to see if this correctly cross posts to ArcDeveloper.net

After much messing around trying to get the dasBlog CAPTCHA to work when my blog was running under a .NET 2.0 application, I finally gave up and moved it out to it’s own sub-domain (blog.davebouwman.net). This way both sites can … Continue reading →

I had turned CAPTCHA off in dasBlog, as it was acting flaky running under a .NET 2.0 web site. I expected some spam to creep in, at which point, I’d deal with it. I’ve been out of town this week, … Continue reading →

I wanted to give a shout out to the entire proposal team at my company, as we have finally signed the contract to build the Pennsylvania Enterprise Forest Managment system. I’m very excited about this award, as I was very … Continue reading →