James Fee GIS Blog

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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So we all hate at least parts of the WebADF but complaining about it won’t do anything. Dave says it is time for us to do something about it. I agree, bitching about software is therapeutic, but it doesn’t help any of us get our work done. Dave, Doron and Matt have [...]

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Doron Yaacoby writes that he’s absolutely frustrated with ESRI’s Web ADF.
As I’ve said before, this is one horrific development platform. I’ve started to seriously think about coding a replacement that will work against ArcObjects (at least something that will satisfy my team’s needs), but it would take a lot of time which we currently do [...]

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I think most of those who have been involved with ArcGIS Server, the Developer Summit is really were we get detailed discussions. The podcast talks about what the session will be which is pretty much what Art has been saying for the past few years. More Microsoft AJAX, .NET and other MS web [...]

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The ArcGIS 9.2 Service Pack 4 is available for download on ESRI’s support site.
ArcGIS 9.2 Service Pack 4
ArcIMS 9.2 Service Pack 4
ArcSDE 9.2 Service Pack 4

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We knew about this back in July, but ESRI has posted an announcement about Service Pack 4. Nothing about ArcGIS Server yet and that should be a big list because ESRI puts new features in their Service Packs. What is missing is the Vista support that was promised. I’m not sure why [...]

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ArcView was available as an option for EDN, but now ArcInfo and ArcEditor are now available (at added cost) to the EDN subscriber. I’m not sure at all why they never offered ArcInfo and ArcEditor as how the heck could a developer load data into ArcSDE without either license (beyond the command line tools).
What [...]

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Looks like Microsoft is going to demo the REST API and Virtual Earth. Someone needs to stop by and get the details.
ESRI Announces new REST API for Interoperability at 2007 User Conference
With the release of 9.3, ESRI will provide an ArcGIS JavaScript library that extends the Microsoft Virtual Earth Software Development Kit. You can [...]

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UPDATE: I have no idea why ESRI doesn’t believe in permalinks so all those links below do nothing special. Sorry.
I’m not going and probably most of you aren’t either so this might be your best bet as to getting an idea what might or might not be said Monday morning.
ESRI International User Conference 2007 [...]

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UPS dropped off a package of DVDs for our EDN subscriptions containing ArcGIS Image Server 9.2 SP1.

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Looks like ESRI interviewed Dave Bouwman at the 2007 Developer Summit and has posted a Podcast of the discussion.
Listen to Bouwman discuss developing custom GIS solutions for forestry and describe some of the large projects he has worked on.
I’ll probably listen this weekend while I’m painting at the new house (no jokes about paint drying [...]

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There have been quite a bit of posting about REST in Planet Geospatial over the past couple weeks. Steve looks back on a post from a couple of years ago that suddenly became very relevant.
I am glad ESRI is thinking about putting a REST API in front of server but it is also not [...]

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While it was announced at the Developer Summit, the “official” news that ArcGIS Image Server will be part of EDN is welcome.
ArcGIS Image Server, a server-based solution that provides fast access and visualization of large quantities of file-based imagery processed on the fly and on demand, has been added to the suite of software provided [...]

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I’m sure many of you got an email this morning detailing a new survey for ArcObjects that ESRI has posted:
The ESRI development team seeks your feedback on ArcGIS 9.2 so that we can incorporate your needs into future releases. We are specifically interested in how you use ArcObjects.
We’d like to know how you work [...]

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As ESRI announced at the Developer Summit, April would be the month that ArcGIS 9.2 SP2 would be released. As luck would have it, SP2 arrived tonight. You can begin hitting the ESRI servers when you get into work in the morning:
ArcGIS 9.2 Service Pack 2 - ArcGIS Desktop/Workstation, ArcReader, ArcGIS Engine and [...]

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As I’m sure many of you who subscribe to ESRI’s email announcement list saw, ESRI is planning to release ArcGIS 9.2 SP2 sometime near mid-april. For those who missed it, you can view the changes here. One thing to keep in mind is ESRI’s definintion of a Service Pack may be different then [...]

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Despite the fact that the whole Developer Summit is pretty much a .NET SIG, Art Haddad and the rest of the .NET team at ESRI hosted a .NET SIG during lunch today. Dave Bouwman was definitely the highlight with his talk about the Agile process. Steve’s got a great writeup of the SIG [...]

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Care to take a look at the questions that attendees to the Dev Summit asked and ESRI answered? Some questions/answers of note:
Q: What are the plans for supporting the PostgreSQL database with ArcGIS Server (ArcSDE technology) and when will this functionality be available?
ArcGIS Server (ArcSDE technology) will support the PostgreSQL database at the ArcGIS [...]

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