A few of the sessions at the 2013 Esri Developer Summit got me interested in learning more about how I could utilize some of the new features of ArcGIS Online to help me build web mapping applications. As a developer, my instinct is to approach each new application with a blank page in SublimeText and [...]
Recently, the major electric utility that I work for installed a wall full of 50”displays in their power outage response control center, and they asked me to start generating content for it. The content would be real-time summary data of the power outages across the utility’s electric distribution network, and the centerpiece was to be [...]
Took me a few minutes to think this one through, so I thought I’d share. In this example I show the start and end date for each month in the period that contains the fiscal year from 7/1/10 to 6/30/11. select trunc(add_months(’01-JUL-10′, level-1), ‘MM’) start_date, last_day(add_months(’01-JUL-10′, level-1)) end_date from dual connect by level <= ceil(months_between(’30-JUN-11′, ’01-JUL-10′)) [...]
A few happy days a year I have to take my car into the shop. On these days, I strap my bike onto my car rack and take the car into my old dealership in Glendale and get to ride the 9 miles from the shop to work. Along the way I retrace my old [...]
Just in case you are curious, SquareSpace does allow you to run ArcGIS Server JavaScript API code on their pages. Here’s a screen shot of a I map made by copying and pasting code from the simple map sample into a SquareSpace page. The only trick was to move the script tags out of the [...]
I started this blog in 2005, and back then, it was pretty much either WordPress or Blogger. WordPress seemed more customizable, especially since I had a hosting plan where I could host my own blog and dive in to the underlying PHP if I wanted to, so it seemed like the right platform for me [...]
The enhancements that I’ve been making to the interactive map on The City of Pasadena’s web site went live yesterday! About the Project The Google Maps based interactive map was originally developed (by another consulting firm) to help residents identify what neighborhood and city council districts they lived in. A user entered an address, and [...]
This one took me a couple of minutes to figure out, so I thought I’d pass it along. Recently I launched an update to an application (in beta) that used the VEMap.Find method to geocode addresses in Los Angeles, CA, but for some reason the results for a few of the addresses would show up [...]
In my previous post in this series, I determined that I had to start looking into how MVC handles access control before moving forward. I came up with a list of functional specifications that I needed to write proof of concept code right away to learn how ASP.Net MVC helps (or hinders) me in implementing [...]
Creating User Stories Now that I’ve got a feel for how MVC handles the mechanics of a data-driven application, I’ve got to take a step back and think about how users are going to use the application. For a start, here’s what I came up with: The site will allow anyone (both anonymous and logged [...]
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