Get Free College Courses on Your iPod

Personally, my brain is completely full and I’m starting to toss out childhood memories to fit in new material, so this isn’t for me. But if you have a little gray matter to spare, taking college level coursework is bec

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ArcGIS Server Image Caching

As luck would have it, I made my way to the ESRI User Conference this year out in San Diego (I wrote a piece about it - check around August ‘06). One of the interesting things they were showing was the new default web

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Learning PHP

I’ve gotten a few questions on learning PHP. Why is finding a class on the most popular web scripting language so tough? Classes on PHP are often hard to find for a couple of reasons.One, it isn’t a vendor-backed solut

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Notes from the 2006 ESRI User’s Conference

This year your intrepid scribe managed to get out to San Diego for the ESRI UC. I thought I’d leaf back through my notes (read: odd pictographic scribbles on cocktail napkins) and post some of the highlights.Labeling &

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Learn More about Open Source GIS

Want to learn more about open source GIS? Try FreeGIS at http://www.freegis.org/ or the Open Geospatial Consortium at http://opensourcegis.org/. Remember the PC’s motto: Proprietary software is for weenies.

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Two-Dimensional Roads in ArcIMS

Tired of roads that look like so much spaghetti on your web sites? Take a look at these:Which one would you prefer - the door on the left, or the door on the right?Making two dimensional roads is actually a piece of cak

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An Introduction to PHP

Never heard of PHP? It may surprise you to find out that not only is it the most popular server-side scripting language (outstripping ASP and by far clobbering .NET), it is also the fastest growing web scripting languag

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Open Source Software

Open Source Software is software for which the underlying programming code is available to the users so that they may read it, make changes to it, and build new versions of the software incorporating their changes. Some

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