My blog has ran away!
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Paul Watson wrote:
Obviously where you work, it doesn't.
just one of those things... can't blog about subjects related to primary employment... just think, if I were the animal/pest control guy, I couldn't tell you about the squirrels! ;P
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
Blog entry about squirrels and pest control[^]. :P
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote:
And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...
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The funny thing is, that is the last technical post I wrote, the last two weeks have been a blur of more theoretical nature. I wrote one piece in response to an interview and then all these ideas just shot out and it has now become a blur or a fury of posts that I don't think have been discussed allot in the current GIS blog spere. The other funny thing is that my hits went from 2 to 45 to over 100. I was so not expecting that!
jason_lakewhitney wrote:
Finally after two days of his crap, my boss convinced his boss to install the .NET 1.1 and then reinstall the ESRI framework and amazingly everything works now.
Have they never used ESRI before? This type of problem is historical ESRI. Gotta love it!! Aaron
_____________________________________________________________________ Our developers never release code. Rather, it tends to escape, pillaging the countryside all around. The Enlightenment Project (paraphrased comment) Visit Me at GISDevCafe
Aaron VanWieren wrote:
Have they never used ESRI before?
Nope, he only installed it and played around with it for a few months. I was hired as the GIS developer and I am the GIS department, kind of lonely. The tech has a 'I am a IT deity' syndrome real bad and perceives me as a threat to his kingdom. Would be nice to have a GIS section here at CP. I found EDN is a very good source of knowledge and help from the forums. But it would be nice to have article more like we do here.
God Bless, Jason
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Blog entry about squirrels and pest control[^]. :P
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote:
And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...
LOL,LOL :laugh:
_____________________________________________________________________ Our developers never release code. Rather, it tends to escape, pillaging the countryside all around. The Enlightenment Project (paraphrased comment) Visit Me at GISDevCafe
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Aaron VanWieren wrote:
Have they never used ESRI before?
Nope, he only installed it and played around with it for a few months. I was hired as the GIS developer and I am the GIS department, kind of lonely. The tech has a 'I am a IT deity' syndrome real bad and perceives me as a threat to his kingdom. Would be nice to have a GIS section here at CP. I found EDN is a very good source of knowledge and help from the forums. But it would be nice to have article more like we do here.
God Bless, Jason
God doesn't believe in atheist but He still loves them.jason_lakewhitney wrote:
I found EDN is a very good source of knowledge and help from the forums.
ESRI has been attempting to rework this site forever. Not much of a "community mentality". but that has been a hornets nest lately. I love the source documentation, it's like gambeling to see what will documentation will have anything more than skeletal info. Aaron
_____________________________________________________________________ Our developers never release code. Rather, it tends to escape, pillaging the countryside all around. The Enlightenment Project (paraphrased comment) Visit Me at GISDevCafe
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Aaron VanWieren wrote:
Have they never used ESRI before?
Nope, he only installed it and played around with it for a few months. I was hired as the GIS developer and I am the GIS department, kind of lonely. The tech has a 'I am a IT deity' syndrome real bad and perceives me as a threat to his kingdom. Would be nice to have a GIS section here at CP. I found EDN is a very good source of knowledge and help from the forums. But it would be nice to have article more like we do here.
God Bless, Jason
God doesn't believe in atheist but He still loves them.jason_lakewhitney wrote:
Would be nice to have a GIS section here at CP
I'll vote for that. My company hired an outside crew to map our system, sent me to two intro classes in Colorado, and now I'm the chief GIS 'expert' expected to maintain and expand the system. Of course they won't buy me any GPS tools, or send me to any more advanced classes, and the schema for the geodatabase provided by the outside contractor sucks, but somehow I'm supposed to keep this thing up to date. We definitely could use a helpful GPS/GIS forum here now that it's becoming a major technology area.
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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jason_lakewhitney wrote:
Would be nice to have a GIS section here at CP
I'll vote for that. My company hired an outside crew to map our system, sent me to two intro classes in Colorado, and now I'm the chief GIS 'expert' expected to maintain and expand the system. Of course they won't buy me any GPS tools, or send me to any more advanced classes, and the schema for the geodatabase provided by the outside contractor sucks, but somehow I'm supposed to keep this thing up to date. We definitely could use a helpful GPS/GIS forum here now that it's becoming a major technology area.
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
The problem is that it relies(at least from ESRI based) on a very specific knowledge set. How many people would really be interested. As I have blogged about this week, the geocommunity as a whole is totally focused on little else than talking about tools, gizmos and gadgets. Well not entirely, there are some fringe. One thing that amazed me from my posts is that there are people interested in the more theoretical topics concerning the industry. The other problem is how do you define what gets contributed, do we really want a ton of google mash up stuff,or are we talking about ESRI implementation of ArcObjects (or anyother open source or freesource apps). My 2c Aaron
_____________________________________________________________________ Our developers never release code. Rather, it tends to escape, pillaging the countryside all around. The Enlightenment Project (paraphrased comment) Visit Me at GISDevCafe
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The problem is that it relies(at least from ESRI based) on a very specific knowledge set. How many people would really be interested. As I have blogged about this week, the geocommunity as a whole is totally focused on little else than talking about tools, gizmos and gadgets. Well not entirely, there are some fringe. One thing that amazed me from my posts is that there are people interested in the more theoretical topics concerning the industry. The other problem is how do you define what gets contributed, do we really want a ton of google mash up stuff,or are we talking about ESRI implementation of ArcObjects (or anyother open source or freesource apps). My 2c Aaron
_____________________________________________________________________ Our developers never release code. Rather, it tends to escape, pillaging the countryside all around. The Enlightenment Project (paraphrased comment) Visit Me at GISDevCafe
I think we could have a GIS section here for .NET, C++, and even VBA since a lot can be done it with VBA. You are right there is a lot of talk about what can be done and not much showing what has been and could be done.
God Bless, Jason
God doesn't believe in atheist but He still loves them. -
jason_lakewhitney wrote:
Would be nice to have a GIS section here at CP
I'll vote for that. My company hired an outside crew to map our system, sent me to two intro classes in Colorado, and now I'm the chief GIS 'expert' expected to maintain and expand the system. Of course they won't buy me any GPS tools, or send me to any more advanced classes, and the schema for the geodatabase provided by the outside contractor sucks, but somehow I'm supposed to keep this thing up to date. We definitely could use a helpful GPS/GIS forum here now that it's becoming a major technology area.
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
What type of system do you have? I am working with one of the largest generation and transmission coops in Texas. We are stretched out over almost the entire state.
God Bless, Jason
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I think we could have a GIS section here for .NET, C++, and even VBA since a lot can be done it with VBA. You are right there is a lot of talk about what can be done and not much showing what has been and could be done.
God Bless, Jason
God doesn't believe in atheist but He still loves them.That is part of the reason my blog has focused so far on Community, Neogeographers and open source(misnamed but will be addressed) instead of technology. I have actually gotten some comments and cross related posts out of it, more than I was expecting. Aaron
_____________________________________________________________________ Our developers never release code. Rather, it tends to escape, pillaging the countryside all around. The Enlightenment Project (paraphrased comment) Visit Me at GISDevCafe
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What type of system do you have? I am working with one of the largest generation and transmission coops in Texas. We are stretched out over almost the entire state.
God Bless, Jason
God doesn't believe in atheist but He still loves them.We're a rural electric company, owned by the Fort Mojave Indian Tribe, covering the FMIT Reservation along the Colorado River in AZ, NV, and CA. The whole reservation is only 60 sq miles, I believe, but we're one of 5 tribes in the country with our own utility infrastructure. We receive power via 3 69kV transmission lines, two from WAPA, one from UniSource, and operate a split distribution system - 12470V in the north, 24940V in the south, so it's a bit more complicated than most small utilities. The growth here has been astounding - 40% a year until recent months - and we're in the middle of some major projects. That means lots of changes to keep track of, and a steady stream of map requests for various views and feature sets. I've found ESRI to be an almost useless source of information, so an informal forum here would be a great resource, if we have enough players interested in the field. And, given the rapid acceptance of GIS in so many other fields, it would be a great way for non-GIS programmers to get familiar with the kinds of tasks they are probably going to be asked to take on in the future.
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"