Agile evangelism for my own team

So about once every quarter we try to get our entire geospatial development staff together in the same room for a couple of hours to catch up with everybody.  It’s a “dinner-n-learn” type of thing after hours where we might cover new projects and developments within the company, recognize heroic acts by team members, and [...]

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Multi-threading musings

Recently, my team and I have been working on an SOA implementation that uses some relatively “expensive” ESRI COM objects within the services tier.  For example, instantiating an IWorkspace can take a long time, relatively speaking.  Since ArcObjects are COM-based, clearly multi-threading isn’t going to solve all of our problems due to the thread affinity [...]

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