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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 →

Over the last few days I managed to find a little time to work on the design of the site. The first thing I did was mess around with some fonts and color schemes for the main header of the … Continue reading →

For a while now I’ve been wanting to do a “behind the scenes” series of posts where we showing how we work, but most of our projects are either sensitive in nature, or just too large to do without making … Continue reading →

Assuming the wireless at University of Denver is stable and fast, I’ll be streaming various sessions at WhereCamp5280 (8/14 and 8/15). Since this will be an “un-conference” it’s hard to say who will be talking on what topics, but between … Continue reading →

When we met up with Peter Batty at DIA yesterday, we were lamenting the price of international data plans, and he showed me OffMaps on his IPhone. Essentially it’s a slippy map based on OpenStreetMap, and it lets you download … Continue reading →

GeoWeb is now underway, and Brian Noyle and I have made our way up to Vancouver, Canada, just in time for a heat wave – not what you’d expect for this part of the world, but better than rain. We … Continue reading →

The out-of-the-box ASP.NET MVC Authorization filter works nicely if you are using the out-of-the-box ASP.NET Membership and Authorization (roles) capabilities. However, we never seem to be able to utilize them directly because our clients have existing user databases, or we … Continue reading →

The ESRI User Conference is currently in full-swing, with all sorts of social media traffic flowing around. I saw this photo posted on TwitPic yesterday, and while I think it’s pretty comical, and took a good bit of creativity and … Continue reading →

Ah yes, it’s that time of year – the ESRI International User Conference. It’s a crazy event – somewhere in the neighborhood of 10,000 GIS people milling around the San Diego convention center talking shop and looking for free swag. … Continue reading →

Just in time for the release of Silverlight 3, I’m bidding farewell to Silverlight on my current project. I’ve been working with Silverlight for about a month, and despite my best efforts it became clear that my project was just … Continue reading →