James Fee GIS Blog

OK, love or hate the term GeoWeb, it does reflect the reality of our workflows today.  We are taking our applications off of the desktop and running them on the web, we are combining data silos right inside the browser and we are giving tools to that used to be reserved for technicians on UNIX [...]

The wireless connection here is less that ideal, but I’m going to try and live blog the DevSummit Plenary.  Just refresh the page for updates (but keep in mind I’m not the fastest typer in the world).  You can also follow some discussion at my twitter account:  http://twitter.com/cageyjames 8:32 AM: Video starts showing the languages [...]

For all those who can’t resist installing the latest service pack for ArcGIS, here it is: ArcGIS 9.2 Service Pack 5 ArcSDE 9.2 Service Pack 5 ArcIMS 9.2 Service Pack 5 ArcGIS Image Server Service Pack 5 In case you can’t remember if you care or not, check out the Service Pack 5 announcement. Freakin’ [...]

Yikes – I just saw this draft from yesterday that I didn’t get posted so pardon the untimeliness of it. The closing Q&A session was over lunch and was pretty calm. A couple issues were raised that I thought I would mention. VB6 will not be supported at ArcGIS 9.4 and you should really move [...]

While the buzz at the DevSummit was for the REST API and the JavaScript API, the Flex API sure got noticed. Folks seemed disappointed that they missed the session on the Flex API. Well some bloggers have already been posting their thoughts on the Flex API and it is well received. A New Flex Web [...]

Well I think most would agree, the 2008 DevSummit was one of the best.  There was tons of new stuff to learn about, much more attendees, more ESRI staff, better layout of the conference (the Community Center was particularly good) and better session (and more of them).  So what did I take away from the [...]

I don’t think there is anything wrong swinging by the office on the way home from the Developer Summit to pick up the 9.3 Beta disks to install tonight while I watch UCLA destroy Mississippi Valley State. My wife just doesn’t understand me but I’m happy with who I am. Lets see, I have my [...]

My laptop seems to have died and I can’t get it to boot up at all. I’ll try and get my notes figured out when I get back to the office, but you can read some blog posts from Day 2 of the Developer Summit. I’m sure we’ll see more come online tomorrow when the [...]

Jeremy Bartley and Keyur Shah (of http goodness fame) presented the first ArcGIS Server REST API session.  ArcGIS Server can work with practically any client moving forward.  To use the REST API, you publish your ArcGIS Server service like you’ve been doing (or reading about) for years.  This means you can serve up simple maps [...]

Jim McKinney opened the Plenary by introducing Jack Dangermond to welcome everyone to the DevSummit. The DevSummit has gotten much bigger over the last 3 years. It had more than doubled since the first DevSummit. The conference has changed from previous years. It is a longer a conference than before (pre-conference seminars). More sessions than [...]

How about this choice at the ESRI Store at the Developer Summit?

There really wasn’t that much going on yesterday other than a couple points Jack made on stage that will probably be built upon during the Dev Summit: Jack says Microsoft and Google are the key to collaborative GIS using ArcGIS Server as the back-end. The hope is ArcGIS will integrate with everything moving forward. ArcGIS [...]

I’ll be driving out from Tempe early tomorrow morning to the 2008 ESRI Business Partner Conference. I’m looking forward to meeting and talking with everyone. Feel free to email me if you want to hook up and get drinks or food (I’m staying at Hotel Zoso down the street). I’ll of course be staying over [...]

I like that ESRI has started to focus on getting ArcIMS developers ready for their eventual move to ArcGIS Server. There is a podcast up describing the “ArcGIS Server for ArcIMS Developers” session at the Developer Summit. ESRI has no ArcIMS technical sessions planned for the 2008 Dev Summit so everyone should take that as [...]

We’ve hit on this discussion before and with the Developer Summit coming up maybe it is a good time to think about the direction processors and their movement to multi-cores and 64-bit processors. At 9.3, ArcGIS Server Enterprise (or whatever ArcSDE is called these days) will move to 64-bit. This is a huge improvement as [...]

This has to be a mistake. I can’t imagine the logic for forcing such a policy.

I’m not sure why this “blog” post is getting much traction. I see no reference to where they got that information, I see no information about what this API is going to be (you can already skin AGX). All I see is ESRI Marketing sending a small email to Directions Magazine and they posting it [...]

OK, as promised, we are going to have yet another meetup this year at the ESRI Developer Summit. If you are going and want to hang out and talk shop, feel free to drop on by. You don’t need to be a blogger, developer or even at the Summit to attend. Just drop by and [...]

The ArcGIS Server RESTful API will come out at 9.3, but what about those who need it now? Well Dave Bouwman has blogged about its release. Because we all love demos, here is the link to the ArcGIS Server RESTful API. http://65.101.234.201/rest/ Notice that it is running on OpenLayers. Think about what you are seeing [...]

ArcGIS 9.2 Service Pack 5 will be available by the end of March. This appears to be a “true” service pack release and not a feature release. I’m not sure I’ll bother installing it on our ArcGIS Server implementations, but we’ll deploy on all our ArcGIS Desktop seats. One change did catch my eye. Launching [...]