ESRI Dev Summit Podcast is up

The Podcast that Brady and I did at the 2008 ESRI Dev Summit has been posted online for posterity.  It’s posted on ESRI’s Speaker Series page here under the ‘Interviews with ESRI Business Partner’s Category’.
Here’s a link directly to the MP3 file.
The chat covers the obligatory “what we do” marketing speak up front and then we chat [...]

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“Architect”…proving my value in Agile and GIS

In my RSS aggregator, I’ve been seeing a lot of talk on the role of an architect in the IT industry. Periodically there is a flurry of commentary out on the web generally revolving around the question “What is an architect?” Alan, a technology evangelist over on the MSDN blogs, references a recent [...]

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Sequence diagrams sans desktop software

So we’ve been doing some upfront design work for a client who’s managing their dev processes using RUP. Technically we’re in the elaboration phase and we’ve had a need to do a bunch of sequence diagramming for some implementation briefs. First off, let me say that after having a whole stack of sequence [...]

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