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Jumping in the Deep-End…

Posted on August 17, 2011

A week or so ago, just as Apple momentarily eclipsed Exxon in value, I finally took the plunge and got a Mac. I may be off the back in joining the Cult, but I’m making up for it by jumping … Continue reading →

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Leaflet: Lean, Mean Javascript Maps

Posted on August 4, 2011

A few weeks back I tweeted about some fun stuff we were doing with the Leaflet javascript map library. For those who may not know about it, Leaflet is a new(ish) library from Cloudmade (http://leaflet.cloudmade.com/). What’s really great about this … Continue reading →

Posted in ArcGIS Server, javascipt, Leaflet | 11 Comments

Mobile Custom View Engine Code

Posted on July 12, 2011

Today I gave a talk at the  Microsoft Special Interest Group about using ASP.NET MVC to serve device specific views. In that talk I used a CustomViewEngine class (code is here) This code was modified from this post by Scott … Continue reading →

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Flex Special Interest Group Presentation

Posted on July 12, 2011

Today I gave a really rapid fire presentation at the Flex Special Interest Group at the Esri Users Conference. I showed 11 flex apps in ~5 minutes – so clearly it was a whirlwind. Here are the the links to … Continue reading →

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Esri UC BackChannel: Mobile Agenda & More!

Posted on June 16, 2011

The Esri User Conference is a little less than a month away, and we’ve cooked up another BackChannel web site / mobile web app for everyone to enjoy. To be clear, this is just a site that we built for … Continue reading →

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Debugging ASP.NET MVC3 Apps using oAuth Secured APIs

Posted on June 9, 2011

We have been working on the 2011 of the un-official Esri User Conference BackChannel app, and one thing we added this year is the option to register and sign-in using your Facebook or Twitter credentials. To be more specific, the … Continue reading →

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ASP.NET MVC3 Google Analytics Html Helper

Posted on May 6, 2011

While we do a lot of different types of projects, almost all of them boil down to creating a web site or app. And almost everyone wants to know usage information about the site/app, and almost everyone uses Google Analytics. … Continue reading →

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ChangeMatters: Behind the Scenes

Posted on May 4, 2011

Yesterday, Jack Dangermond announced the public launch of the Esri Landsat Image Services, and the ChangeMatters applications. Over time, I think that the community at large will find the image services to be really powerful and a great help in … Continue reading →

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Texas Wildfire Data Viewer

Posted on April 22, 2011

This week, we’ve been working with our friends at the Texas Forest Service to build a simple viewer app that pulls in data from a variety of services. We hope that this is helping out with the efforts to get … Continue reading →

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Custom 404 Pages for ASP.NET MVC 3

Posted on April 21, 2011

We are just about to release a new version of our corporate website, and one of the last things I needed to do was handle 404’s gracefully. We did a major overhaul of the information architecture, so there is a … Continue reading →

Posted in asp.net mvc, C# | 4 Comments