I’m fully impressed! A mate of mine has been making some suggestions to the OpenGeo team about their latest OpenGeo Suite Community Edition – they listened, asked for his input and released new functionality all within the space of a few days – this is agility at its best! There’s so much that is right [...]
Paul is back on the attack – this time he’s likening proprietary software to crack. Brilliant It’s worth taking Paul’s analogy a bit further. Being an open source ‘evangelist’ he believes that proprietary software is bad for you. The two main points he makes are: 1. Proprietary software is pushed onto unsuspecting audiences by software vendors [...]
I’m working on a project where I’ve applied the following simple design principle: “Don’t use ArcObjects unless you have to” Most of the spatial functionality is delivered via a set of web services and is implemented directly between a custom WCF application server and Oracle (ESRI’s flavour of ST_Geometry). I took this decision for the [...]
Melbourne is a great city. One of my favourite weekend jobs is to take my son to Little Saigon. He calls it the Mango Market – for the past few weeks we’ve been stuffing our faces with mango each time we go there – I never realised there were so many varieties of mango! It’s [...]
DANGER DANGER DANGER – THIS VIDEO CONTAINS GEOPROFANITY FOSS4G 2009. Done. I’m just starting to reflect on where things are since the last time I was at a FOSS4G. Representing Government, Warwick Watkins, Richard Marles and Kate Lundy were asking for help in their quest to modernise and become 2.0 certified – all good governments need [...]