Filed under: ESRI, ArcGIS Server, REST, web development
ESRI’s blog and example:

• http://blogs.esri.com/Dev/blogs/arcgisserver/archive/2008/02/06/ArcGIS-JavaScript-and-REST-APIs_3A00_-Super-Tuesday-results.aspx
• http://serverx.esri.com/ArcGISJavaScriptAPI/SuperTuesday.html

Ok, I was talking to a coworker about this last week. I find it interesting ( Read more... )

Filed under: hardware, geeky
Yesterday I got home to find out that my no-longer-wireless D-Link router was also no longer a router. It had forwarded its last packet. I hadn't had time to hook up the new one which was sitting, un-powered, on top of the old one. Linksys, I choose you!

As I said, 1,000 geeks can't be wrong about a router. Most of the ( Read more... )

Filed under: HD-DVD, Blu-Ray
Spout all of the technical specs and studio affiliations you want. Blu-Ray won because of the color blue. People like blue. Sure, the laser in HD-DVD is also blue but how would I know that? It's not in the name, the logo or even the box. I realized it was over a while back when I was at Borders of all places. They had a ( Read more... )

Filed under: Boston
I helped a little old lady up a curb this morning! She had a cane and a couple bags and just couldn't quite get that second foot up. How can you resist? Well, the driver of that van waiting for the curb parking spot found a way to resist.

Filed under: Boston, GIS, Applied Geographics
My most recent project is now in beta. It displays property, neighborhood and budget info for the entire City of Boston. For example, I work here:

http://gis.cityofboston.gov/EGISWebViewer/Map.aspx?TabValue=Neighborhood&PropertyID=0304720000

Go check it out!

Technologies used:

• ArcGIS Server 9.2
• ASP.NET ( Read more... )

Filed under: ArcGIS Server, WebADF, graphics
I can easily create an overview map but I need to temporarily add an area of interest rectangle for printing. When doing Internet mapping applications the ESRI way (usually not by choice), you are supposed to use the WebADF. It is a collection of .NET assemblies containing about a thousand namespaces and ( Read more... )

Filed under: gaming
Someone wrote this about the NFL-EA deal being extended to 2012:

You want to blame someone, blame the NFL. They were the ones who wanted an exclusive deal. They shopped the idea to both Take Two and EA. In fact word was Take Two got first pass at the deal and balked at the asking price. EA, with Madden as their bread and butter ( Read more... )

Filed under: hardware, networking
My D-Link router finally started acting funny. I have had it for a very long time but last weekend it got into a "reboot every 22 seconds" loop. After some fiddling, updating the firmware, pressing the hardware reset switch and desperately trying to use the web interface even though I only had a connection for 5 of ( Read more... )

Filed under: food, Japanese
A coworker brought in a box of individually wrapped treats labeled as Onion in Onion. Under the name is some Japanese text. He said his brother got them from Japan or something. The first Japanese word was clearly "onion" since that's apparently identical in Katakana (O-NI-O-N). The second word took me two cookies to ( Read more... )

Filed under: blog
Yikes! I have been very talkative recently. I am sure that there are reasons but whatever.

Speaking about blog consolidation...I had attempted to maintain a few blogs separately for different things. While it could work out with enough effort, it just doesn't seem as fun as cramming everything into here. Therefore, I am going to ( Read more... )