And We’re In

Well, our abstract was accepted for the ESRI Federal User Conference. I say “our” because I am co-authoring with my friend/customer/former co-worker Dan Getman at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. We’ll be presenting some work we’ve (Dan, me and a couple of other really good developers) done together on the SensorNet effort.
I don’t want to spill [...]

A Silk Purse…

Well, salvaging the brightest outlook I can from the aforementioned hard drive crash, it does present me with an opportunity to “trim the fat” as it were. So, at first glance here’s the stuff (in no particular order) that will get put back on immediately:

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

That, coincidentally, is the sound a laptop hard drive makes right before it craps out and is also the sound you find yourself making afterward…
This’ll be good for the schedule.

Weekend Frivolity from TLC

We were watching “The Real Estate Pros” on TLC last night. This quote caught my attention. A very nice lady was explaining how they were going to cut out the rafters of a house to create a vaulted ceiling because they wanted:
more cubic square footage in the house
Somewhere, her high school geometry teacher cringed.

SharpMap on Apache

In the words of Pete Townshend (as sung by Roger Daltrey):
“Why should I care? Why should I care?”
I can’t answer that one for you. I ran into this post while searching out something else. It shows how to get ASP.NET running under Apache on Windows. Curiosity got the better of me and I had to [...]