Usability and the GeoWeb Part 4: Make it Fast

It’s taken me awhile to get to it due to a variety of work and family obligations but we’ve finally reached what will be my final post on usability and the geoweb…for now at least.  I haven’t covered all possible usability issues and scenarios, but have hit the high points and “big win” factors over [...]

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Usability and the GeoWeb Part 3: Protect Your Users From Themselves

As I write this post, I’m attending the GeoWeb 2009 Conference in Vancouver, BC.  This is then a pretty appropriate time to drop part 3 in the Usability and the GeoWeb series.  Part 1 in the series discussed the importance of hiding unnecessary complexity from the user, while Part 2 focused on the importance of [...]

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Usability and the GeoWeb Part 2: Provide Feedback

This post is the second in a multi-part series on usability in web-mapping applications.  Dave has spoken extensively on this topic of late…and much of this is just putting fingers to keyboard on the issues we’ve been harping on for some months now.  The first post in the series asserted that we, as developers and [...]

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Usability and the GeoWeb: Part 1 of ?

Myself and my partner in crime, Dave Bouwman, have talked incessantly in trade publications and at conferences of late about the Geospatial Web or “GeoWeb” and what it means to GIS professionals and software developers.  This post is the first in a several part series on usability issues and concerns when designing and building applications [...]

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Teaching an old dog new tricks: Dojo

Over the last two weeks, I’ve been waist deep in what has been, for me, a completely new client side development platform.  We have several projects underway at present that leverage Dojo as the framework for rich client GeoWeb applications and, simply put, we’ve got more Dojo work than our two resident experts can handle [...]

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Calling all Silverlight and dojo gurus: Hiring again

That’s right, DTSAgile is again looking to expand our team building next generation RIAs and GeoWeb applications in our Fort Collins, CO office.

As we have a backlog of projects that use diverse technologies, we’re looking for an excellent developer with one of the following skill sets.
SL, EF, ADO.NET Data Services
If you have bona fide project [...]

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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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Inspect and adapt…sprinting to a new home

Apologies for the lapse again.  It’s been a busy couple of months including a significant change of venue for me.  After re-evaluating some priorities and life events, I have been fortunate enough to be able to join the Data Transfer Solutions development team in Fort Collins, CO. In a former life, I worked with Dave [...]

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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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