I’ve been quite lately, it’s just been life and work I guess…
I’ve made or reviewed more floodplains in the last few months than some people probably have in a few years! I’m not complaining, it’s work and we have the backlog to keep me busy for quite a while. I’m working, keeping busy and put some things to the side a little. I’m happy to have a job and the bonus is I am still learning so that makes it better… Getting ready to start on a new web based application for a client, so that should break the cycle a little 
. Then there is Access… the love for some, VBA hell for others. I’ve built up a few databases in the past few weeks and it’s been fun to get back in there, but for some reason I like to get out of Access as fast as I can…
TGISF – Yes, I check in on it daily, but between work and family something had to give a little. It’s running but things need to be better… I plan on a regroup to happen soon. New theme, out of beta (feel like Gmail) and some more daily attention.
Another item lost has been Twitter – to be honest, I haven’t missed it too much. When you step back, look it over and get rid of it for a while – the friendships and relationship building is gone but as a whole it’s all the same when you look in after not being on for a couple of weeks. Not saying I am totally giving up, but man it can take you time when you don’t control it.
After the long hours of work – the next thing comes family. The little one is playing soccer right now and I got to watch her score her first goal last week! You should have seen the smile on her face – Priceless!
I am sure I could add more to this, but just wanted to have a little something out there in case people are wondering…
A factory
I shot this picture from my iPhone yesterday while out with the family. Big steam plant is in front or Lucas Oil stadium. People try to argue that it doesn’t look like an old factory, but I disagree. Take a look at it from this angle, fits right in huh???
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Today I Was actually able to spend some time with the family! We went to a farm and were able to get up close to some cows, chickens and bulls. It was a great time and a nice change from 70 hours at the office this week!!
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Wonderful day at the zoo and we happened upon feeding time for the giraffes today. Quite fun for the little one!!
BTW – Sometimes the iPhone takes some pretty good pictures…
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What better to test than on an application I might actually use at some point? Tonight I made a first draft layout of an applicaion that we currently use at work. It was first written using VB6, then upgraded to VB.NET.
It’s just the shell right now, but it’s a start and as I figure Flex out, I’ll update, add the functionality to hopefully end up with a replacement to the current applicaion.
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Flex,
GIS
There was a time a while back when I was looking for something to start doing on my own time to expand my knowledge. I thought it was going to be some Ruby work, but that has now changed.
The new ‘thing’ for my free time is now FLEX or Flex – however you want to put it…
My quest started when I saw the new Flex API with ESRI being released. This got me going a little in checking things out with ESRI and other mapping APIs. I started digging into the Flex API and created a few basic connections and maps. I even created a basic map for the first time using AIR connected up to Google. Once I started looking I found some really cool stuff that could be done using Flex, not only in mapping but in other ways as well.
Then it was time to step back a few… I want to know HOW it works, not just how to hack a map together using examples and others code. I wanted to build it myself while really digging into FlexBuilder and the meat behind it.
So, now I am deep into a couple of books, online training and dev sites to pass the free time I have (work for the past 2 weeks though has really kept me from doing much of anything…). One book is finished and another was started last night.
I’ll post more as I get further into learning and start actually doing a more than samples and small applicaions.
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Flex,
GIS
