Dave is conducting his 2008 Geospatial Developer Survey. If you’re a GIS developer, I highly encourage you to complete it!
Microsoft Certifying Open-Source
I got a link to this article on SlashDot. It discusses Microsoft’s effort to begin actively certifying open-source applications for Windows Server 2008. I see this as a positive move. I use a lot of open-source apps on Windows myself. Many of my customers are still downright suspicious of open-source (I know) and achieving Windows…
First ArcGIS 9.4 Screenshot
ArcGIS 9.4 screenshot…..
zigGIS Updates
For those that are interested, Abe has been posting screencasts of the the improvements to zigGIS at the Obtuse site. The zigGIS 2.0 beta will be out soon. The performance of the direct connect to PostGIS has been greatly improved and full editing has been implemented using native ArcGIS tools. There is also a Google…
Quote of the Day…
Abe Gillespie had the quote of the day in his latest post about zigGIS. In describing the development approach (disclaimer: I have been known to dabble in the zigGIS code from time to time although it’s been the Abe show recently), Abe described it as “software 2.0” which, in his words, “doesn’t mean much, but…
FedUC Plenary – 47:53
For those of you keeping track at home, the reference to OpenLayers in Jack Dangermond’s FedUC plenary talk comes at approximately 47:53.
Dev Summit: Ahhhh, the APIs (and Security)
ArcGIS 9.3 looks really good all the way around. ESRI seems to have really put a lot of work into making this a quality release. Basically, it’s all about consolidating the vision of 9.2 while also improving the execution of that vision. To be sure, there are some new capabilities (PostgreSQL support, Javascript API, REST…
PostgreSQL Support in ArcGIS
I just sat through a session titled “Working With the Geodatabase Effectively Using SQL.” It was heavily focused on ST_GEOMETRY. That’s pretty much what they want us to use. Interestingly, though, there won’t be ST_GEOMETRY in SQL Server 2008. They’ve added it to PostgreSQL (more on that later) but not SQL Server. Seems a little…
Dev Summit REST API Session
I just sat through the first REST API session at the Dev Summit. They had it in a pretty big room and it was packed. There is a lot of interest in it here. Generally, you can walk up to just about any random person and they’ll say they want to learn more about the…
Dev Summit Meetup
I went to the meetup last night. I had already spent part of the day with James and fantomplanet. In addition, I got to meet Dave Bouwman, Chris Spagnuolo, Brian Noyle, Morten Nielsen, Ed Katibah and others. It was pretty exciting and a good time. It was also fun to meet a lot of folks…