As part of my role as head of our Strategic Technology division (that sounds more important than it is - I’m the only member of our Strategic Technology division), I identify the business needs of our group of 35ish GIS
Everybody knows about Google Earth, but not as many people seem to know about NASA World Wind.World Wind is a totally free, open-source project sponsored by NASA that has quite a bit in common with Google Earth. They ar
Let me begin by saying that I know less about design review software than…..anyone in the world. What I can tell you is I regularly watch developers bring in several rain forests worth of rolled-up e-size bundles (often
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Let me start out by saying this is the 100th post on The Programming Consultant Newsletter. It seems like I should have some sort of fanfare or general celebration in this post, but I’m not sure how one really does cele
SDE has a fairly complicated table structure. A versioned layer will have five tables (business, spatial, index, add, and delete tables), along with references in all kinds of other tables in the SDE database. A select
Quantum GIS, or QGIS, has released the final 0.8 version of their desktop mapping product.QGIS is “…a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS) that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows.” It’s l
Personally, my brain is completely full and I’m starting to toss out childhood memories to fit in new material, so this isn’t for me. But if you have a little gray matter to spare, taking college level coursework is bec
An interesting study done by Security Fix indicates that using Internet Explorer was “unsafe” for 284 days in 2006. They defined unsafe as having unpatched “critical” level security flaws with published exploits on how
This one has been a while in the making. In the if-you-can’t-beat-‘em category, Sun Microsystems has been slowly embracing open source for quite a while now.They have long supported OpenOffice, the open source office su