Spatial AdobeColdFusion, Flex, AIR and spatial applications (maps and more)...The universal spatial backend - ColdFusion- October 25, 2006 I have just been reading some of the postings out of Max and just ran into Sean Corfield's post on Ray Camden's info on hooking into .Net natively from ColdFusion. Now couple this with Flex -- and stand back. I am currently working Paul Hastings -- well Paul is doing the work -- on a ColdFusion Flex ArcIMS project that hooks into the Java connector on the backend via ColdFusion. Now imagine a world where a Flex client with its native vector capabilities can hook into other services --...http://www.mariposa.com.au/arcims/2006/10/the_universal_spatial_backend.cfm Links back in- October 5, 2006 In case some of you noticed the links going missing a while back - including the link for those of you (you know who you are) who can post - well, they inadvertently go rewritten by a default template and now they are back.http://www.mariposa.com.au/arcims/2006/10/links_back_in.cfm Why Spatial Data Infrastructures Fail- October 4, 2006 This is a bit OT, but Spatial Data Infrastuctures (SDIs) and all of the conceptual rigamarole around them are making quite a few open source specialists buckets of money at the moment. So, if you haven't read this article by Paul Ramsey you might find it interesting, as I did http:geotips.blogspot.com200609why-sdis-fail.html - I particularly like his section titled "Loosely Coupled Things are Easy to Break" -- I have lost count on how many bullshit discussions and talks I have heard by...http://www.mariposa.com.au/arcims/2006/10/why_spatial_data_infrastructur.cfm |