I had a query today about the system requirements of MapIt. For those of you who don’t know what MapIt is yet I point towards the link above, it’s a great product for a certain market, especially those Microsoft partners who want to make use of their data within SQL Server 2008 with all of the spatial bells and whistles available. Jithen gives a good overview of what you get out of the box here including the system requirements on the ESRI wiki site. Many people will hopefully be buying or evaluating MapIt over the next few months and should keep an eye on a number of the requirements....

As you can see I had this idea of hosting my own blog. In case you wondered your here reading it. Now I thought that would be a simple thing to do just put a site onto the internet and eventually the magic that is the Google-bot or the Bing-bot (do we call it that?) would one day swoop down and make me part of the internet (I firmly believe, albeit slightly misguided that if your on a public site and not in the index then your not actually on the internet). Now I suppose before I go into my failings as a web developer I feel  that I need to justify myself. An explanation. I’m a fairly seasoned web...

When developing any web based application is pays to know exactly what your browser can do. If your developing an internal application you can make sure you maximise the website to what the browser can  support, this is Nirvana (provided the internal browser isn’t IE6, which in this case is usually is) just make sure your aware of any upgrades to the browser on the network and test early! If your working in the more common heterogeneous environment that is more common on public facing sites then understanding which browsers your going to have to support for your application is fundamental as this...

I’ll start this post by saying I like Dojo. It makes developing JavaScript a lot easier than hacking the code yourself especially when trying to support multiple browsers. As with everything though it’s not perfect.  Whilst getting hold of the code is as simple as linking to the AOL hosted site, getting hold of the information about how to use the code makes you feel like your playing some sort of Japanese console adventure game, probably on the Wii, hunting the internet for snippets of code, working examples or even fully fledge sites, that might give you a small insight into how the library...