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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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

Over the last year I’ve been to many geo-conferences, and been privileged enough to speak at most of them. However, I think that there is something amiss in the current conference landscape. To quote Mark Frost in Fortune Magazine… We’ve … Continue reading →

Now that we have the look and feel stubbed out, it’s time to build out the rest of the site. Since nearly every page is data driven to some extent, the best place to start is with the domain objects. … Continue reading →

Welcome back to my on-going series about the creation of GeoGeekTV.com. With the solution set up, it’s time to setup the master page. For this site I’m using the 960 grid system (960.gs). This is a super easy to use … Continue reading →

Welcome back to my on-going series about the creation of GeoGeekTV.com. Now that I’ve got the routes all setup, it’s time to setup the solution. Typically I break things up into (at least) 4 projects: Site, Domain, Data and Fakes. … Continue reading →

Welcome back to my on-going series about the creation of GeoGeekTV.com. Having solidified the design, we can move on to the implementation. Since ASP.NET MVC abstracts the requested URL from actual files on disk (as in /foo/bar.htm does not actually … Continue reading →