About
About Bill Dollins and GeoMusings…
This my personal blog about GIS, software development and related issues. I originally started blogging a couple of years ago over on Blogger with a blog called “ArcDeveloper” but I wasn’t satisified with it so I killed it. I picked up again in late 2006 and started this blog on Blogger. I grew dissatisfied with Blogger and moved over to WordPress in December of 2006. My hope is to update this blog as frequently as time permits. At times, I’ll post about programming with a GIS focus but will also comment on larger issues, depending upon how my day has gone. In addition to being a place to vent, GeoMusings will also serve as an outlet for my own experimentation. I hope that you’ll find it interesting and useful.
On the professional side, I’m a Senior Vice President with Zekiah Technologies in La Plata, Maryland. Zekiah is a small technical consulting firm focusing on software development, database implementation and system integration. This blog does not represent their views at all.
I am also a developer on the zigGIS open-source project. ZigGIS is an extension to ArcGIS that enables direct connection to PostGIS. I work with Abe Gillespie and Paolo Corti on that project.
I’ve been doing GIS software development since the early ’90s. I have been primarily focused on ESRI products but have worked with most major products over my career. I have recently begun working with some open-source GIS products. I work mostly in .Net these days (C#, VB.NET) but also have experience with Java, VB6, C/C++, most RDBMS technologies, etc. In general, I’m pretty jazzed about geospatial technology in all its forms. I move back and forth between commercial and open-source technologies depending on what my requirements are. I’ve had good luck with ESRI technologies over the years and am excited about the capabilities of open-source technologies so a lot of that will come through here. I’m old enough to have moved past the “religious wars” phase of my career so I don’t generally subscribe to any particular ideology with regard to technology. Hopefully, I’ll be fairly even-handed in dishing out praise and criticism.
I am also a Type 1 parent. For those of you who know what that means and wish to discuss, my contact information is below.
I can be reached at dollins.bill@gmail.com.
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