Let’s Make This New Year’s Resolution
When was the last time you referred to the Internet as the “Information Superhighway”? Probably not since you upgraded from GEnie to AOL back in the early 90’s and saw there was this HTML world out there. Early on you figured out calling the Internet the Information Superhighway stupid and the world thanks you for it.
In 2012, lets stop using the term “the Cloud” to refer to some arbitrary hosted service. It’s like nails on a chalkboard. Just think about this statement in a year:
The Cloud roxxorz my proprietary GIS Server!
It’s like that picture of you wearing that Members Only Jacket to your Senior prom. You so want that picture to go away, but Mom keeps showing it to your friends.
Same here, don’t be that guy who uses “the Cloud”. It’s a marketing term for newspaper writers who learned how the Internet works from Ted Stevens. In a year you’ll be on to the next Gartner Hype Cycle fetish (I hear the self driving Google car is right around the corner) anyway so call it what it is, hosted services.
Stupid Cloud
2011 Was the Year of Python
Remember AML fondly if you must, but today with Python you have tools that run circles around what AML gave you. I find myself opening up a command window and running python commands to manipulate data over starting up ArcCatalog these days and I love it.
No more excuses to not use Python.
’Twas a very good year for Python. Seems like we’ve finally gotten out of proprietary scripting languages and picked a winner in Python. Personally, WeoGeo couldn’t do what we do on our back end without Python and I know many other companies can say the same thing. I’ll “go out on a limb” and say 2012 will also be a very good year for Python.
Snakes on a GIS
There are snakes on this GIS!
2011 Was the Year of Python
Remember AML fondly if you must, but today with Python you have tools that run circles around what AML gave you. I find myself opening up a command window and running python commands to manipulate data over starting up ArcCatalog these days and I love it.
No more excuses to not use Python.
’Twas a very good year for Python. Seems like we’ve finally gotten out of proprietary scripting languages and picked a winner in Python. Personally, WeoGeo couldn’t do what we do on our back end without Python and I know many other companies can say the same thing. I’ll “go out on a limb” and say 2012 will also be a very good year for Python.
Snakes on a GIS
There are snakes on this GIS!
Getting Paid by the Hour to Watch GIS Software Start Up
I’ve had it, I’m done waiting for old, slow, bloated GIS packages load while I do nothing. My new resolution this year is to focus on GIS products that start up quickly and let me start working immediately.
Seriously, what’s up with the bloated code? Features have trumped usability in GIS for far too long. This isn’t rocket science.
GIS Day is Slow
GIS Day is a celebration of slow moving software.
Getting Paid by the Hour to Watch GIS Software Start Up
I’ve had it, I’m done waiting for old, slow, bloated GIS packages load while I do nothing. My new resolution this year is to focus on GIS products that start up quickly and let me start working immediately.
Seriously, what’s up with the bloated code? Features have trumped usability in GIS for far too long. This isn’t rocket science.
GIS Day is Slow
GIS Day is a celebration of slow moving software.
Atanas is out!
Boy, you get sick, go to bed early, then you miss some great news.
Out on day 65. Thank you all for everything. Details later on tenthcave.com. #freeatanas
– atanas entchev (@atanas) December 9, 2011
It is so good to have you back my friend!
Atanas get out of jail card
If only Atanas had such a card to overcome bureaucracy.
HT: geoMusings