Getting yer’ Agile on at a discount: Upcoming course

Come on out and join us to drink the agile kool-aid, take your agile medicine, learn what agile can do for your team or organization, or have a skills refresher for experienced agile practitioners.

Dave Bouwman and myself will be collaborating to give a one day Agile Project Management training seminar on Friday, June 26, [...]

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Fun with Dojo filtering selects

While the Dojo JavaScript libraries are really an excellent resource for building rich internet applications (RIAs), sometimes Dojo just makes things harder than they have to be.  Last week I was working on public map viewer, based on our custom implementation of ESRI’s JavaScript API starter kit,  for one of our clients.  The site is [...]

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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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The Agile Process: What my 3 year old taught me

I love spending time with my son.  He frequently reminds me that sometimes, life perceived through the eyes of a child is a pretty acceptable way to go.  I was a bit naive going into father hood and thought that I’d be the one doing all of the teaching. Yet every day I spend with [...]

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Tech Help, Social Networks, and the Geoweb: Dev Summit Parting Shots

The ESRI Dev Summit is something I look forward to each year and 2009 did not disappoint.  Another gratuitous shout out to Jim Barry, the entire EDN team, and ESRI staffers who turned out this year and extended hospitality, knowledge, and new shiny bits to hordes of geo-geeks in spades once again.  While others will [...]

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My Head Hurts – Making LINQ Let You IN

So my head is all turned around this morning and it honestly has nothing to do with our proximity to the new year.  I’ve been whacking around building the IRepository layer for an MVC + ESRI JS API application and SubSonic has been giving me fits trying to join across multiple tables with multiple T-SQL [...]

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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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Agile conversations at the dev summit

Much like Chris over at GeoScrum, I’ve been carefully listening for Agile-speak here at the developer summit because I’m keenly interested in what the rest of the industry is going in their development pathways at the same time our team is adopting Scrum and looking for opportunities to exercise our skills.  On Monday night, I [...]

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My boss is on the internet…

Yeah, I haven’t been real regular about posting here lately, but we’ve been overrun with conference prep and putting out fires and the blog has taken a back seat. 
Speaking of conferences…here’s a shot of some of my crew at the GITA conference in Seattle. 
http://virtualearth4gov.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!369B39F890CE30C1!779.entry?wa=wsignin1.0
We’re sharing a booth with the VE guys at Microsoft.  Sorta funny [...]

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Your daily humor at “Worse Than Failure”

So I’ve been having a few “geek” laughs courtesy of the folks over at Worse Than Failure. If you’re having a bad day at the keyboard or just need a laugh, check this site out. The stories are made even better by the fact that their URL (www.thedailywtf.com) acts as a double entendre.
WTF = Worse [...]

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