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Archive for December, 2009

Make your Server Object Extensions exception friendly

( shank )

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 [...]

I’m going to hire Jack……Dangermond

( rib )

At FOSS4G 2009 this year I had the pleasure of sitting down and chatting with  Arnulf Christl (ac), Paul Ramsey (pr) and my friend Pete Fraser (pf) about Open Source GeoSpatial software and of course the ‘old enemy’. It was my intention to post this interview to geogeek tv however I proved to myself that I’m not the [...]