Steve Coast bringing OpenStreetMap to Denver, CO

So it looks like Steve Coast will be attending a mapping party here in Denver this weekend to promote the free wiki world map and do some mapping of local streets, trails, etc.  The best part is that it starts and finishes at Wynkoop’s brewery downtown.
Check out Peter Batty’s blog for the details as he [...]

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Open Standards talk at URISA

Tuesday, June 22, 2008 from 9 am to 4pm, RM/URISA is putting on another installment of their geospatial technology series dealing with real world interoperability examples using open data standards.  My boss will giving a talk at the event based upon some work we’ve been doing with both “heavyweight” standards like those put out by [...]

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The impossible question…sane interviewing

So I took some time awhile back to pick on recruiters a bit and wanted to take a few minutes and jot down some thoughts about the technical interview process for developers.  Time to pick on interviewers, including myself for awhile. 
First, you must all go read my favorite post ever about technical interviews.  You have to [...]

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IPictureMarkerSymbols and IPictureDisp fun

I’ve been converting some GDI+ rendering code to use ESRI Graphics Layers…you know: IElement, ISymbol and all the usual suspects. The application environment I’ve been working in is a distributed app with many different clients and prior to my arrival on the project the decision was made that all custom symbologies would be serialized [...]

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