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2012 Esri #DevMeetup Schedule - Get your GeoGeek On!

Some news for developers interested in meeting other Esri developers or perhaps looking for a stage where they can present a lightning talk to other GeoGeek in their local tech community. The Esri EDN group has announced a busy 2012 season for the popular DevMeetUp events starting this week (Feb 16 in Anchorage Alaska) and [...]

ArcGIS for SilverLight 1.0

Good news via the Esri dev blog for you ArcGIS developers interested in SilverLight as the ArcGIS Viewer for Silverlight 1.0 and ArcGIS for Sharepoint have been released.  Users can now create a Silverlight-based web mapping app via an intuitive WYSIWYG  App Builder.  More about the SilverLight solutions from Esri. With the ArcGIS Viewer for [...]

Career Tips - 10 HOT Geo Job Opportunities

I love sharing and I really dig helping people. So, for some Friday fun I’ve elected to spend 20 minutes of my time putting together an awesome list of HOT Career opportunities for Geo/Tech professionals. Hopefully I can help bring together an employer and some talent – good luck! A number of companies are hiring  Geo [...]

Get Organized With The 2012 Esri DevSummit Online Agenda

Are you planning on attending the annual Esri DevSummit this March in Palm Springs CA? If so you can start planning your week as the online agenda planner and schedule of talks and presentations is now online.  With sessions taking place Monday March26 – March 29 there’s a ton to select from so start your [...]

Tips on coding interactive map and geolocation services for S40

A video presentation delivered by Andrew Knight and Nokia Developer – The Nokia development team shares technical tips on coding interactive map and geolocation services for the Series 40 platform. Using the Nokia web tools development environment, Andrew Knight gives you a quick and informative look at the map-based application possibilities available to you when [...]

Nokia Shutting Down Navteq Mobile Developer Resource NN4D

Well, with all the hooplah, reorganization, restructuring, yadayada going on at Nokia the past year or two you can’t really be surprised when you hear something to the effect of Navteq Developer resource NN4D being shut down. Well that’s exactly what we’ve been hearing around here and to yours truly no big surprise I guess! [...]

Who's Up For A Developer Challenge? The City of San Diego and AT&T Wants To Know...

Here’s an awesome opportunity for you SoCal developers as the City of San Diego (@cityofsandiego) along with sponsor AT&T are challenge developers to come up with innovative, compelling apps that take advantage of city (and partner) data to deliver software solutions that enhance the lives and quality of life  of the people of San Diego. [...]

OpenStreetMap Developer Hack Weekend at GeoIQ, Washington, D.C.

Over on the GeoIQ blog Andrew Turner has penned details of a coming hack fest, OpenStreetMap Hack Ween-end. The GeekFest is scheduled to take place at the GeoIQ HQ in D.C.  on Feb 18 and 19 and promises to be “very technical” and focus on building core apps and technology that use OSM or support [...]

A Few Favorite Mobile, Social Location Articles from 2011

Over the past year we’ve authored and published more than 100 feature articles on Social location, mobile app development, and location services. the following are some of my favorites that I’d like to share with you.  Most of our articles only hang out on the front page for several days and then slowly start working [...]

Living Social Wants To Know Are You Hungry? You Could be Their next Intern At Hungry Academy

Here’s a very cool opportunity I learned about in a tip from Kate Chapman, The Hungry Academy. What an amazing idea, to have people compete for an internship! In a nutshell… The Hungry Academy is an intensive program that will put you in a position to join our engineering team. It’s an exclusive program for [...]

Save the Date - WhereCampTB + IgniteSpatial Feb 10-11, Tampa, FL

There’s no doubt that the GeoGeek crowd has become big fans of the Ignite and the WhereCamp format of unconferences… with that, I’m pleased to share details of an event of interest coming up for Geeks in the SouthEast – enter WhereCamptb + Ignite Spatial. The organizers has set in the works plans for an [...]

Factual Rolls Out Even More Places (and restaurant data) For App Developers via enhanced Places API

Factual Places is a huge resource for developers and mashup artists in need of place data. Just today the company is rolling out an updated to the Places API providing access to millions of POI points – see http://www.factual.com/topic/places. Of note, this latest Places update also includes a new restaurant places database that includes 43 [...]