Virtual Earth 6.1 FindLocations oddities

Anybody else out there that’s doing reverse geocoding with the Virtual Earth 6.1 API notice any wierdness last week with the VEMap::FindLocations method?  In short, we have several sites that grab address information based on a point from a map click, user coordinate entry, GPS location, etc.  Well, we were actively doing some reverse geocoding [...]

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MOSS 2007, ArcGIS Server REST smackdown

Recently, we’ve seen an uptick in demand in a couple of our corporate office sites with clients looking for MOSS/ArcGIS or MOSS/VE integration to provide spatial context for their corporate portal content for a variety of markets.  Some time ago the company rolled up a product called Constellation that integrated ArcGIS Server with MOSS and now our Houston [...]

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Kewl Silverlight charts

As Silverlight begins to take hold and I’ve actually visited and interacted with a few sites that leverage the technology, I’ve been sort of interested in the fancy charting and analysis packages that I’ve seen.  You know the deal…bouncing bar graphs, flying pie charts, etc.  Dealing with custom reporting and charting requirements has always been [...]

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Follow up on “Spotting Agile”

So Jeff Langr has a good starting list on how to spot an Agile team on the right track over here. Clearly a team being “on the right track” needs to go beyond the mechanics and get into the behaviors of Agile. My picks focus less on delivery than Jeff’s but here are some things [...]

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GIS in the Rockies next week

So I’ll actually be avoiding the commute next week for a day or two and hanging out with some of my team members at GIS in the Rockies at the Budweiser Events Center in Loveland, CO. We’ve got some interesting presentations lined up by some of my development staff.
September 10th, 4:30pm Overhead [...]

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Hiding your flaws and ignoring sustainable pace

I got together for breakfast awhile back with a colleague of mine in the industry who has been instrumental in getting me to drink the Agile/Scrum kool-aid and we got to talking about some of the more challenging fallacies we’ve both run into surrounding Agile.  The one topic of our discussions that really stands out [...]

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