Whilst this post might have more to do with a game played with leather and willow to a guy who lives in a part of the world that could only accommodate ice cricket for most of the year, well to be honest the UK isn’t much better for cricketing weather either but that’s beside the point, it’s actually about this years ESRI’s Developers Summit which I was lucky enough to attend this year in Palm Springs. To ArcGIS 10 and beyond! The 2010 #DevSummit was a cornucopia of new technologies and online systems rolling out towards the release of ArcGIS 10. Even though I work for a distributor there was...

It might come as a shock to many of you, but often on the internet the world is flat. Yes I know that you thought this whole debate had gone out with the ark (or actually a little later), but after years coming to terms of the world being a sphere, cartographers everywhere needed a method of putting that world  down onto paper. Now this was fine for many years until 2nd May 2000 the US decided to turn off Selective Availability and whole world seemingly brought into WGS84. The difficulty here though is the fact that WGS84 and Longitude and Latitude coordinates are an approximate representation of...

Over the last few weeks I’ve been having a few adventures in the world of Silverlight. A bit like Alice I’ve been following white rabbits down holes and through looking glasses. What I’ve discovered is that having an IDE doesn’t always make things easier, especially when the error is occurring somewhere between the chair and the keyboard, a place which is notoriously hard to debug. Brain don’t fail me now One issue I have is with my brain. If you start thinking as if the development environment is going to help you, then when it doesn’t it can completely throw the processes you use to...