GIS Dev Cafe

Open source has created a stir the last several years in IT(Information Technology), for which I feel the industry did and maybe still does not understand what role open source should and does play as a piece or whole of a corporate infrastructure. I have tried to remain on the outskirts of the issue on the growing demand for open source in GIS and geographic mapping packages, until I read on another Geoblog that we need open source in order to defeat ESRI as well as the UC conference rumblings about big bad ESRI and happy innovative google(Sorry, no direct quotes here, you can easily google ESRI UC and Google to get exactly the idea). Now note, I am not a paid or unpaid supporter of either company or any of the open source GIS companies as well. What my motivation here is, to point out that OPEN SOURCE DOES NOT HAVE A MOTIVE!!!! Continue Reading »

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Where I work, we have numerous products currently in development, all of which I may be working on at any given time. Well, I had recently upgraded my ArcGIS 9.1 version to the current 9.2 version to work on GIS Server development. A week later I was back developing an application to be deployed on 9.1. In order to build I had to uninstall all 9.2 installations and reinstall 9.1.

I popped the “engine developer” disk in and got to the custom setup and to my dismay, no .Net option was available. I tried a couple of other disks and still no luck. Well after some time of scratching my head I realized that I am working on a new machine that had 9.2 initially installed and that there was not an instance of the “Microsoft 1.1 .Net Framework” installed. I installed this and then reinserted the developer disk, and wallah… .Net was an option once again.

Long story short, it is the stupidest, littlest things that will hijack your time! I would be more upset of course, if it wasn’t ESRI, as this is not an isolated occurrence.

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