With the release of Graffiti 1.1, I decided to upgrade mandown.co.nz to the latest version. I run the update against mandown.co.nz, rebuilt the pages and tested this. Once everything was working ok, I decided to upgrade the archives. The archives are now running Graffiti 1.1. Hopefully this should be faster and stable. Remember my current website is http://mandown.co.nz and this is just an archived website.

My new website mandown.co.nz has been running very well over the last few months. I have been making quite a few improvements with loads more still to come. I have some cool ideas in mind so I will try and get those implemented when I can. Community Server 2007.1 was becoming quite a hassle to manage and just main, also it was slower so today I decided to migrate my archives to Graffiti using the migrator tool Telligent has provided. The entire process was seemless and it didn’t take long at all. Now I have two websites on the same platform which makes life quite a bit more easier to...

I have decided to archive scrappad and start fresh. mandown.co.nz is my new website. Please read: http://mandown.co.nz/other/mandown/mandown-co-nz-a-fresh-start/. For those linking my RSS feed’s, please update to: http://feeds.feedburner.com/mandown. Cheers

On Friday, Mindscape released the final version of their domain model and O/R mapping framework for .NET developers. I have been on the beta and have been following the progress since it was introduced. So what is Mindscape Lightspeed? "LightSpeed is an innovative, high performance .NET domain model and O/R mapping framework designed to accelerate your development while, at the same time, providing your application with a solid foundation based on best practice domain-driven design patterns. With features like convention-over-configuration, fast data access, model validation and data binding, it...

So there’s a few people wondering where I have been and what’s been happening? I’m not gone, still here just really busy and quite a bit of stuff has been going on over the last few weeks. A few personal things, but also some positive notes. I have now moved teams. I have moved from our Professional Services Team to our Technical Solutions Team. So what does this change involve for me? Well it’s a big one. I have basically moved out our consulting and development area to move of a technical marketing, research and development and solutions area. This has been an area...

ESRI has now released ArcGIS 9.2 Service Pack 3. You can grab all the files your need here: ArcIMS: http://support.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=downloads.patchesServicePacks.viewPatch&PID=16&MetaID=1317ArcSDE: http://support.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=downloads.patchesServicePacks.viewPatch&PID=66&MetaID=1316ArcGIS:...

Well it’s been a tough few weeks for me with a lot happening, but things are just about back to normal so I am catching up on all the reading and information being posted out there. I see ESRI has released the announcement about ArcGIS 9.2 Service Pack 3. Summary:ArcGIS 9.2 service pack 3 is planned to be available for download later this month July, 2007. Description:Users who cannot download this service pack from the Web site will be able to request it on CD. So what’s coming? Here are some highlights for me: NIM004916 – You can no longer append records to an existing personal...

Well there wasn’t much information that came out the ESRI International User Conference 2007 for days after the plenary so I thought I would share some of the information that we received from a few of our team that was at the UC. Zorko who is one of our consultants in our Professional Support Team has written up an awesome technical update of some of the sessions he went to. VISUALIZATION WITH ARCGLOBE Use ArcGIS Online to download template documents. These may have higher resolution imagery available than default ones, at least for USA. There is a façade tool from ArcScripts (id 14040)...

So it has now started. The ESRI International User Conference 2007 is underway in San Deigo and I see the updates and coming in pretty quickly!What did the layout look like? Peter Batty has taken an awesome photo of the UC underway: Great picture Peter, thanks for this. Always great to see Jack doing his stuff. There are some pretty cool updates. I thought I would summarize them and provide some comments on those that are of interest, so here goes: ArcGIS Server 9.3: ArcGIS Server REST And Javascript API’s where announced at the UC plenary session today. So what does this involve?At...

Well there is not long to go. Our team headed off to the ESRI International User Conference 2007 late last week. A few of the guys flew out on Friday and the rest of the weekend. This is to the attend the twenty-seventh annual UC. Since the introduction of the Developer Summit, the focus of the UC has changed slightly and as such we are not sending a big bunch this year. There are only a few of us attending this year of which none include any developers. I will try and post updates as they come through. I see Dave Bouwman has already touched down at the UC,...