Beats the heck out of Washington in August. I’ll be doing booth duty most of the week at the ESRI UC this year. I’ll be in booth 612 doing the old soft-shoe for Zekiah. Feel free to stop by and say hello. I’m hoping there will be some good off-site meetups. This trip will complete…
zigGIS 2.0 To Be Released on May 21st
Today was the original target for releasing zigGIS 2.0. There is a flurry of activity at Obtuse to get the web site and the online store ready. May 21st is the definite release date as all of the loose ends are tying up nicely. A lot of work has been put into improving performance, especially…
ArcGIS 9.2 SP5 Issue with Oracle
I just got and e-mail about an issue with ArcGIS 9.2 SP5 and Oracle. The knowledge base article is: http://support.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=knowledgebase.techarticles.articleShow&d=34765 Happy reading!
zigGIS 2.0 Beta Closing, Release Near
The zigGIS 2.0 beta is wrapping up this week. We got some good feedback and Abe was able to fix a few bugs. We’ll begin focusing on getting the release out. We are shooting for May 20th but that may slip because there’s a lot to do. PostGIS editing is working pretty well now and,…
Coming Up For Air
Work has a funny way of intruding on blogging. I’ve been writing a LOT of proposals lately. The funny part is that so have a lot of others that I know. Federal, state, local…they seem to have gotten their budgets all at the same time. There are worse problems to have. During this period (which…
zigGIS 2.0 in Beta
Those of you following the progress of zigGIS via Twitter may have noticed that zigGIS 2.0 is being released to the beta testers. This version features better handling of spatial references and well as enabling editing of PostGIS data using native ArcMap tools. There’s been a lot of code cleanup along the way and Paolo…
MapObjects Reminiscences
What was the most fun you had with MO? Do you still use it?
Follow zigGIS on Twitter
Obtuse Software has established a Twitter account for zigGIS with the intent of using Twitter to broadcast status updates on zigGIS. The link to the zigGIS home on Twitter is: twitter.com/zigGIS Twitter users who are interested in keeping up to date as zigGIS 2.0 moves through beta into its release and beyond can simply follow…
ZigGIS Beta
As zigGIS 2.0 enters its beta stage, I am (somewhat strangely) reminded of the famous line from Yeats: “what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?” Kind of a weird thing to have pop into your head in relation to something as positive as zigGIS, but sleep deprivation…
Lyrical Revisionism
Ramblings from my addled brain…