Agile in your architecture process…where to put it?

Of late, I’ve been struggling with how to integrate formidable architecture tasks for large projects within the Agile process.  Small projects, maintenance work, pretty much anything that is well understood is OK for “Design as you go” or “Design only what you need” type approaches.  But a ground-up design and build of a large system really almost [...]

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Plug it in! Configurable plug-in execution…code

Last week I posted a rather verbose discussion of some modifications to a PlugIn pattern that  I made to make each plug in configurable at run-time, accepting different parameters as inputs to discrete running instances of a plug-in.  The point being, rather than having plug-ins that do repetitive tasks with little or no run-time customization, [...]

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2008 ESRI Developer Summit…anticipation

Got the go-ahead last Friday and booked my travel for the 2008 ESRI Developer Summit.  And I managed to get a hotel to boot! Pretty excited to be going this year…for one it’ll likely be a good ArcGIS Server brush up for me…I spent about a year away from the geospatial industry and only recently leapt [...]

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Musings on offshore development

The last few large projects that my team and I have worked on have involved the use of offshore development resources as a supplement to the onshore (stateside) development team.  I can see why companies lean toward the relatively economical pricetag of offshore developers, but the results I’ve seen are so varied that I’m still [...]

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Semantics and your dev process…walking the talk

As a solution architect, I’m usually the team member that sets technical direction for a given project and it usually falls to me to negotiate the process with the client that will be used for design and development.  We’re trying to move more toward the “Agile is the way we do things” mantra, but I’m [...]

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Seeking developers…the resumes please

As we’re in a pretty good growth phase right now, my team is looking for highly motivated self-starters to join our GeoSpatial Practice.   A Microsoft Certified Gold Partner and ESRI Business Partner based in Denver, CO we’re a tight knit group of consultants working on some interesting and cutting-edge solutions for both web and desktop GIS [...]

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Your daily humor at “Worse Than Failure”

So I’ve been having a few “geek” laughs courtesy of the folks over at Worse Than Failure. If you’re having a bad day at the keyboard or just need a laugh, check this site out. The stories are made even better by the fact that their URL (www.thedailywtf.com) acts as a double entendre.
WTF = Worse [...]

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The Carbon Project expands their offering

Okay, okay…so I’ve pimped these guys out before but I’m gonna’ do it again.  I’m really impressed with what The Carbon Project has to offer and I see very little on the blogosphere to indicate to me that they’re gaining a wider audience.  (Although curiously I see when I Google them that ThinkGeo is taking a [...]

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Assembla…one kewl resource

As consultants, my team is seldom gathered all in the same place at the same time.  While we do have several large projects that frequently occupy many of us, we’ve got lots of smaller consulting gigs that keep us running around the greater Denver area a fair amount.  However, we all collaborate regularly on little [...]

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Plug it in! Configurable plug-in execution…design

A short while ago, I was working on the architecture of a large system that needed to perform a variety of “tasks”…specific actions that could be triggered by the user or run internally by the system through code according to a prescribed recipe or set of conditions.  The issue at hand was, the variety of these widgets that would [...]

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