Monthly Archives: August 2007

We’ve been having some issues where Visual Studio 2005 crashes when building some of our projects. Nothing graceful here – the IDE just disappears. To make things more fun, it’s inconsistent, but for some projects it’s happening about 80% of the … Continue reading →

One way to get a conversation started is to bring up something the entire group has in common – in this case the “G” in GIS… and so the un-conversation continues. [This started as a comment on Aaron’s GISDevCafe, but got … Continue reading →

Just a quick note that I’ve added 5 feeds to the ArcExperts.net aggregator. They are: Chris Spagnuolo’s GeoScrum – I work with Chris and his blog is really his insights into project management and lessons learned by our team as we … Continue reading →

As I sit here looking at my little $10/month hosting account, I’m seeing that ArcDeveloper.net is taking up a lot of space, and getting relatively little traffic. In addition, I believe that the vast majority of the “1279″ the registered users are actually … Continue reading →

I’ve been doing some work for a client and in order to connect to their system, I need to use a Cisco VPN client. I ran into some problems, and after asking Google about it, really did not find anything … Continue reading →

Back at the 2007 ESRI Developer Summit, I did a presentation on “Being Agile“. At that time, I mentioned that we simply followed general agile principles, but did not particularly follow any doctrine. For a variety of reasons we have … Continue reading →

Following up on a previous post about using Authorization Manager to implement Role Based security in your application, I’ve created a simple example that shows how to use AzMan to control access to commands in ArcMap (or ArcCatalog, or anything really). … Continue reading →

I seemed to recall hearing something at the User Conference about ESRI publishing a list of all know issues with ArcGIS. We have been doing some design work relating to proactive topological validation, and wanted to do to a little digging … Continue reading →

Thought I’d share a little about two tools that help keep my computing life sane. I regularly work on 3 different PCs – my development box at work, my home PC and my notebook, and I need a few things … Continue reading →

This week I will be transitioning from Microsoft Team System to Subversion for our source control system. There are two main reasons for this change - cost and ease of use. Cost The cost issue is two fold – first there is the … Continue reading →