satellite imagery of europe in Google maps

Google recently added satellite imagery of the whole world to its fast mapping service. Until now only the united states could enjoy their fast mapping service. But we're very pleased to see the whole world getting visible in google maps

Very interesting is the imagery of Africa. A part of the world where not much internet-mapping is available (in most cases, no maps are available). Maybe the google service can aid scientists and development workers there by providing easy-to-use, fast imagery of the region. Personally i visited Cameroon, Kenya and Guinee and could easily point out the various trips i made to maintains and cities.

Variables in CF

Try this out...

<cfoutput>
<cfset x["y.z"] = "a">
#x.y.z#
<cfset x.y.z = "b">
#x.y.z#
#x["y.z"]#
<cfdump var="#x#">
</cfoutput>


the amazing world of CF

Introduction of new srid to load autodesk data for mapguide not supported by oracle?

In the Netherlands we have (had) a lot of problems when introducing Autodesk geo data in Oracle Spatial, because of the different spatial reference systems used in both applications. A company ISIS (these days part of Bentley) develloped a fix for the problem, which is widely used by local administration in the Netherlands (organisations using mapguide FlexiWeb).

In the fix ISIS, amongst other things, introduces a new srid in Oracle (srid 19025), similar to RD (dutch standard system).

However yesterday i learned this fix is not officially supported by Oracle. So lots of organisations will miss oracle support when there software solution fails. The province of Limburg didn't agree with the ISIS-fix and tried to find another solution, so they brought a team of Oracle, Autodesk and other developers together working on an Oracle supported fix. The project is in full progress and a fix is expected soon.

read more
introducing an srid in oracle (autodesk)
known bug in 8i/9i with srs's (autodesk)
problems showing oracle data in mapguide (autodesk)
Loading data from autodesk (oracle)
Nice mapping application (limburg)

the world of fusedoccing

off course i don't have to explain the good sed of documenting the code... but some years ago, we didn't have the same habits to document code. So these days, while upgrading some fusebox 1.0 applicatons to nowerdays standards (read all about fusebox methodology), we had to add lots of documentation in the scripts too. But fortunately some guys develloped tools to make our work much easier. I used three tools to automate the code documentation and i liked them!

AutoFusedoc is a plugin for Homesite/CFstudio. When pressing ctrl-shft-d it scans the current document and generates fusedoc including io-parameters it can find in the cf-code and the name of the current file. It saves you lots of hours for only $50,- (if you have applications of 1000+ files like we do)

There is a tool out there, fusedocer, with which you can automatically read all fusedocs from all files in your Fusebox 3 application and generate a nice report from it. We're currently improving the tool, to make it more stable (right now it crashes on simple cf-errors). When we're ready you can download it here. Those guys are working on a version for Fusebox 4.

Fusebox 3 to 4 converter: well if you've got your code in FB 3, why not change it to 4 and profit from the performance gain. It needs some manual fine tuning, but the xml-generation is perfect!

Macromedia -> Adobe

Yesterday, word got out that abobe purchases macromedia for $3.4 bilion. http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/adobeandmacromedia.html. Wow... What will happen to Freehand, Dreamweaver and Fireworks? The most elegible candidates for dissolving in Illustrator, GoLive and Photoshop. And what will come of Flash, will it all be (open) SVG or PDF soon? Time will tell.
Other issue: ColdFusion incorporated open source pdf-generation in it's latest release. I guess it will be depreciated soon.
By the way Macromedia still sells Homesite and ColdFusion, which they acquired, when bying Allaire a couple of years back, probably the Macromedia product line will still be available for a while.