The last few days have been interesting. I have been using Graffiti 1.2 as my blog engine for quite a while now and the time has come to move over to a better platform. Graffiti is a great engine but Telligent has dropped support for it and it’s basically dead. The product itself has been released to the world and is now open source. For those interested there is a new version available and this can be found here: http://graffiticms.codeplex.com/. Due to this I decided to move to WordPress as my blog engine. Initially I thought this wouldn’t be that hard but its been a reasonable challenge to get...

Over the last few days I have been looking for something to spark my blog. I thought about a new theme and was browsing around some of the free CSS templates. Problem is that it’s not easy finding nice looking free CSS templates. I then realised that the current theme I have is not too bad. It’s fresh, clear, clean and gives a nice layout. Thinking more about this, I decided, why not replace the header images on my blog with an interactive map using some of the new API’s from ESRI? And the result is what you see above. By default the map in the header will load using the ArcGIS API for Microsoft...

Wow just two weeks ago I decided to start fresh: A Fresh Start, mandown.co.nz. I had a really awesome and successful time with scrappad but like I mentioned in my previous posting I needed to upgrade my engine and as a result I thought I would start fresh using a new engine. I wasn’t looking forward to a migration as these are time consuming and can be painful. The new Telligent engine is pretty cool. So fast and easy to do anything. I had some time over the last few evenings, so I thought I would come up with a new look and feel for my website. This a rather quick and easy process. I headed over...

Wow, it’s been quite a while since I have been on the blogging scene. I think it’s almost been about five months now and I almost can’t believe it. I have been getting daily emails from people asking how come I stopped blogging or if I am going to be blogging again, well I’m back! Sorry for the short break, lots has been happening personally and at work. On the work scene, I have moved from our Professional Services Team into our Technical Solutions Team. This is a newly formed small team responsible for presales and research and development activities. It’s fun and...