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Kyle and I are running into a small problem with Team Foundation Server when it comes to assigning tasks. In a typical software development company, a Project Manager receives a bug or feature request. He then assigns associated tasks to his developers. Once the developer is finished, the task is re-assigned to the PM for review. At EnGraph, things are a bit more collaborative. Partly because of our size, but also because we like to manage support and development from a team perspective. Back to ......
We were supposed to get Visual Studio Team Edition for Developers in the mail by the 20th of this month (Dec 06). It still hasn't come and I don't see it on MSDN. Time to get back on the phone with Microsoft. Technorati tags: VSTS, Tired of waiting ......
I've been chin deep in confusion the last week getting EnGraph to be official Certified Partners and installing Team Foundation Server. Luckily for me, there is a lot of good information online so I thought I would post a mini-guide: DO ask lots of questions to your Microsoft rep about becoming certified DON'T freak out when the partner's site opens 15 new Internet Explorer windows DO follow the competencies instructions as close as possible DO worry when you don't hear back from Microsoft after ......
All the audio and video clips on LJWorld.com and KUSports.com are in quicktime format. To Jeff Croft, Matt Croydon and all the other developers over there, please give us another format. Haven't you read that people hate quicktime? Their office is four blocks from EnGraph headquarters. Maybe I'll bribe the development team with a free lunch. Pepperjax for the LJWorld geeks if you let me watch Julian Wright clips in a format other than quicktime. Technorati tags: Lawrence Journal World, Lawrence Kansas, ......
Matt Dunbar & Co. did a fantastic job putting together GIS day at Kansas University. My favorite part of the day was judging the student competition. Seven students gave ten minute presentations on unique uses of GIS. They showed everything from a geographic boundary of where grits are consumed (apparently South Carolina is the capital of all that is grits) to a traffic analysis of SW Douglas Country in Kansas. The winner was Lincoln Lewis. He showed how to make GIS data pretty using a suite ......
Heartland Developers Conference 2006 in Omaha was a huge success! Joe Olson, Phil Wolfe and everybody else involved did a great job getting everything put together. Day 1: Joe Stagner did the opening keynote on Federated Logic. Basically using data sources that live anywhere on the internet with ASMX web services. He even talked a little bit about GPS and web based mapping solutions. Something that is near and dear to my heart. Next, I went to Dave Donaldson's talk on Power Programming with Attributes. ......
Kyle and I are heading up to Omaha tomorrow for HDC. I'm especially looking forward to LINQ by DonXML and ATLAS by Joe Stagner. Here is a list of all the sessions. Technorati tags: Heartland Developers Conference, Omaha, DonXML, Joe Stagner, Kyle Archer ......
I've met so many cool people at user groups, code camps and techfests in the last couple months. I try to get a card or write down their name, but I often forget. It would be nice to have a social network for developers that organized people by technical dialect and event attendance. We'll use Microsoft naming convention and call it "Developers Social Network". Technorati tags: MySpace, Social Networking, Developers, Events ......
This weekend, I'm heading to the Tulsa TechFest 2006 to give my AJAXPro talk. Sunday, Kyle and I are going to Salem, New Jersy to see one of our clients. The Heartland Developers Conference is coming up the week after that. I'm speaking at the Kansas University GIS day in November. I will be speaking in the same session as Dr. Jerome Dobson. I've heard that he is not a big fan of GPS, so that should be interesting. My talk is called "Big Brother is on MySpace. How GPS will change our everyday lives ......
I'm rewriting a class in our GPS object that handles the geographic coordinates of GPS points. We need more flexibility in converting between types of coordinates. I'm torn between designing the class for performance or for ease of consumption. From an architectural point of view, the class should be easy to consume. So when somebody has this class loaded, they could use a .DecimalDegrees or .DMS property and it would take the existing data, convert it on the fly and spit it back. However, I know ......
It looks like MapQuest is trying to compete in the mapping market again. I'll be keeping their mobile page on my radar. And I'm also thinking about making a MapQuest version of Where's Tim for the OpenAPI Developers Challenge. [MapQuest] [Mapping] [Where's Tim] ......
Jeff had a good idea. Start a Google Group for developers in the Kansas City / Lawrence / Topeka area. This will help us carry on the conversations we start at the monthly KC UG meetings as well as provide a place where you can ask programming questions where you know the persons face. I think it is a good idea. Jeff talks more about it on his blog. [Kansas City] [Lawrence] [Topeka] ......
Garmin has started blogging. They even welcome feedback in the first post. Here is my first feedback for Garmin. Check your routing routine on Garmin Mobile, you ran me on almost a mile of gravel road on a trip from Lawrence, KS to Pella, IA. Don't get me wrong...it's a pretty good app, as I talked about earlier. It just needs a bit of work yet. Also, set up an ASMX or REST api so that developers with the correct authentication could access a person's GPS data ......
In the PodcastStudio.net session the other night, I told Jeff and John that I have never had problems with Google Maps, or any Google API. Well, I think I might have found something. I was redesigning the layout for Where's Tim, because, well, I'm an awful UI designer. And I was putting everything into a 2x4 table and I set the left column width at 25% and the right column width at 74%. The upper right hand cell contains the div tag that eventually becomes the Google Map and I set the width of that ......
New! Check out the new ClickOnce Where's Tim Tasktray alerter! http://timhibbard.com/where... When I tell people that I keep a GPS enabled Nextel phone in my car and anybody, at anytime can see my current position, they always ask, “Well, aren’t you worried about that?” I always say, “No, one day everybody will use their current location to assist them in their everyday lives.” While most people aren’t as comfortable with this level of transparency, I believe the social and business benefits of ......
The RSS feed for Where's Tim wasn't working quite right. It's back now.
http://www.timhibbard.com/wherestim.xml
Also, if you need a quick and dirty Windows application to create RSS feeds, check out RSS Builder. It is an open source program and he is looking for developers to help him out.
I attended the Lawrence Technology Association meeting today. Our company presented a session on what we do, and another Lawrence company presented some bio-tech info. I was able to sit next to one of the developers from Sprint who told me about their plans to roll out a service that would be able to hand off data and voice calls between PCS and 802.11. That would be nice for people like me that have poor cell coverage in my house and a wireless network ......
Microsoft is putting on a MapPoint web cast for developers at 10:30 AM CST today. Click here to register
The concept of web services is great, and I'm always looking for new ones or new ways to use the power of web services. I made a list of good ones I've found so far Most developers have their own style of programming, their own dialect. So using another developer's function, to get the result that you are looking for, can be frustrating. Some want you to enter a string and return a structure, some want a string and then return a structure. The documentation for this is usually minimal. Most developers ......