Sun Microsystems has launched the AJAX Developer Resource Centre. This is a pretty cool resource site for AJAX. Even though the focus is JAVA, it still has a lot to AJAX in general. “Get the latest JAVA tools and technologies for building visually appealing easy-to-use web applications. Put AJAX to work today on you Web and portal applications, and give your users a ride they’ll want to take again and again” Quite the marketing splur! but its still quite a useful site for finding resources. I’ve already found my self reading a few from here. Where’s Microsoft’s equivalent? They only...

Voting has now opened for the New Zealand .NET Blog Of The Year, 2006. Even though my blog is very focused on GIS, its mainly GIS development using server based technology from ESRI. This is all in .NET since I am a .NET Developer so I try and focus the content on this area and will always continue to do so. If you have 2 seconds, you can vote for my blog here: http://www.dot.net.nz/blogvote?blogname=scrappad. Just a matter of clicking the link since its a direct link. For those wanting to have a look at the list of New Zealand .NET blogs it can be found here:...

This is kinda cool. I was browsing around and checking out all the latest videos on Channel 9 when I decided to do a search for Art Haddad and I found this buzzcast. Basically just interviewing Art about his experiences at MIX06.“Robert and Arthur talk about their experiences so far at MIX06.  Robert discovered separation of design and development.  Arthur had lunch with some decidedly non-developer folks.” For those wondering who Art is? He is the architect and lead software engineer for the .NET team at ESRI. While at MIX06 he was interviewed for his experience there....

Well it looks like Microsoft has followed Google and has added street level data for the entire country You can search all the streets in the country. You have to use full syntax though. For the address above which is the Wellington office, I entered 150–154 Willis Street, Wellington, New Zealand.There is also cool driving directions. You can get directions based on quickest or shortest routes. I know this has been a feature in Live Local for quite a while now on other datasets but I never really played with it. You can just right click on a point and select whether you want to drive to or...

Saw this on the ESRI Support Site. Looks like it came out just yesterday. I was talking about the whole new release of ArcSDE 9.1 in my previous post, http://se7en.co.nz/cms/scrappad/archive/2006/07/28/2757.aspx, and I see ESRI has now released a patch for this version. “This patch works around an issue with Oracle 10gR2, Long Raw based ESRI Binary, and cached cursors. Investigation with Oracle is in progress. If you are experiencing ORA-03106 errors when using LongRaw data and Oracle 10gR2 you should download this patch and follow the instructions provided. This patch also includes a fix for a...

Well it was just two weeks ago that I found out about this problem. We were putting a ArcSDE server. Installed 9.1 and patched it. This was on Oracle 10g r1. It worked fine and we had no problems. We then decided to install Oracle 10g r2 and guess what? I don’t work! After looking around we found that ArcSDE 9.1 doesn’t work with Oracle 10g r2. There is an article on the ESRI Support Site outlining the problems. The solution is not a patch though but rather its a whole new release of ArcSDE! Since we were working late we and couldn’t afford any downtime we needed to have this fixed...

Another new addition to the Google set of services. Google has announced hosting for open source projects on its new website Google Code.Google’s open source program manager mentioned this:“Stein says, “We really like SourceForge, and we don’t want to hurt SourceForge” or take away projects. Instead, Stein says that the goal is to see what Google can do with the Google infrastructure, to provide an alternative for open source projects.”“Stein says that Google’s hosting has a “brand new look” at issue tracking that may be of interest to open source projects,...

This is a cool article that appeared that has appeared up on developer.com. It talks about the Test Drive Development process. I haven’t heard about this process before so its quite interesting to hear how this works. “In 1999, Extreme Programming (XP) appeared on the horizon and, where it was adopted, everything changed. XP is a programming methodology that places developers in the center of the process. Actually, the customers are at the center, with developers embracing them through a team approach that incorporates a strenuous test-first philosophy. Test-First Development or Test-Driven...

This is pretty cool news for all those users out there that don’t have an MSDN Subscription. Microsoft is making the MSDN Library freely available for download. While all of the content is available on MSDN, its always good to have a local version. I normally have the latest MSDN Library on my machine as you need it to refer to, especially when you are travelling or do not have an internet connection. “For the first time, we’re making the MSDN Library freely available for download from Microsoft Downloads. Previously, the Library was only available for download to MSDN subscribers. The...

Check out this that I came across. Its named Bugle, and its a Google source code bug finder. Yes, I thought it was rather interesting as well. “Bugle is a collection of search queries which can help to identify software security bugs in source code available on the web. The list at the moment is rather small (you get the idea though), hopefully people will start sending more queries. Source code review is not a straight forward operation , using the list you will get pinpoints and not definite results.” Some of the bugs that Bugle notes are: Buffer OverflowsInteger OverflowsFormat...