As a consultant always keeping one eye on the horizon for the next gig (*cough*), I reconnoiter the industry job ads to get a sense of what skills are hot, where the demand is, and what companies are hiring. Especially for programmer/developer jobs, many of these ads are little more than HR cut-and-paste jobs culled […]
With ever-present budget pressures, GIS heads are wrestling with which combination of server admin and paid cloud subscriptions (ESRI, Google, MapBox, CartoDB, et al) make the most financial sense as well as serving user needs. A few weeks back Tobin Bradley at Mecklenburg County, NC, wanted to determine how visitors used the Google API options […]
It was a post of narrow import: QGIS now has more native SQL Server 2008 support. While I was happy to note the participation and support of folks I both know and like, I was nonetheless slightly irritated by a nagging thought. “Why didn’t Microsoft do this itself already?” A few years back I remember […]