U Can Haz Job? DTS is building its FTC team…

For those of you that follow Dave Bouwman’s blog, this picture from a year or so ago may look familiar.  And I’ll ask the same question he did when he originally posted it.  Could this be your workstation?  Sadly, no…I took this one.  But we’ll build you another just like it if you’d like to [...]

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ESRI, BAH and a National GIS Boondoggle

So a proposal for a National GIS “new deal” to save the economy has been making the rounds lately. You can grab a copy of the PDF here.  It came to my attention while reading James Fee’s blog and a tidy little flamefest is afoot in the comments to his original post.  I gave [...]

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Handling Recursive Relates with SubSonic and LINQ

Dave has been posting some good stuff relating to a project we’re working on right now that leverages SubSonic in the data tier with MVC providing all the shiny goodness in the web tier. SubSonic has been an excellent code generator for our DAL and handles somewhere between 75-90% of the cases for our [...]

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On Role Models OR “What’s Right With This Guy?”

Ok, completely non-technical personal post today.  I’ve become increasingly frustrated over the years, more so now that I have a small child, at how individuals and society at large select role models.  In particular I’m troubled by the tendency to put a movie star or a sports legend on a pedestal because they’re famous and [...]

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