A geospatial career journey
I mentioned in my previous post that, at a previous career stop, I built open-source support into our IT lifecycle. Specifically, we used QGIS. The primary reason we made that choice is that we were a Mac shop. It's true we could have run ArcGIS Pro inside Parallels, but I didn't see the need to … Continue reading Supporting Open Source: A Case Study
I started the year with a sense of renewal. By that, I mean that I had cataract surgery the first week of the year and I literally have a new vision for the future. This time last year, I was already down with bronchitis - the result of an unnamed respiratory illness that knocked me … Continue reading Onward to 2025
I few weeks ago, I described an integration I built to pull data from the Stripe via its API and load it into BigQuery. There were two main problems with this approach: First, it was incredibly hacky - a Wile E. Coyote approach to the problem involving cron jobs and EC2 instances and GCS uploads … Continue reading Stripe API Pagination in FME
I mentioned in my previous post that, at my current organization, we had made good use of FME in processing non-spatial business data. In this post, I'll provide an example of that. One of the functions in my department is professional services. Our professional services team, like similar teams in many product companies, doesn't capture … Continue reading Salesforce to Jira: Using FME for Business Automation
