Sweetwater Authority - Best Software Integration

Well done to Eman L. Ramos and the Sweetwater Authority for their 3rd placing in the "Best Software Integration" category in the 2008 ESRI UC Map Gallery for their "Meter Data Collection Project ArcPad Field Application".

The map gallery poster is impressive and innovative in how it combines a map presentation with the details of the customised ArcPad application, including script code extracts.

Take a look at it at : http://mapgallery.esri.com/2008/727/swa_map_poster_large.pdf

Grandfather of mobile GIS?

Since Dr. Roger Tomlinson is considered to tbe the "father of GIS", I guess that might make him the "grandfather of mobile GIS". Good thing too, as he also appears to love ArcPad.

Jack Loves ArcPad

The picture says it all.

It's a VerySpatial time

The cool people at VerySpatial are again doing a live show at the ESRI UC this year.

Some members of the ArcPad team, desperate to gain media stardom, are again going to be on the show to face a grilling from Sue & Jesse.

Join the AVSP live show on Tuesday, 5 August at 5:30 in Room 13 of the SDCC.

Welcome Varuna to ArcPad Team

Varuna has joined the ArcPad Team.

Varuna's technical writing skills will be a great asset in documenting the new and exciting changes coming to ArcPad in future releases.

Welcome to the team Varuna!

Speaker Series Podcast: What's New in ArcPad 7.1

Jian Lange, the ArcPad product manager, and myself talk about the latest ArcPad release, version 7.1

Listen or download from ESRI Podcast Feeds : MP3 [19:16 8.85 MB]

http://www.esri.com/news/podcasts/audio/speaker/staff_slavik.mp3

2008 ESRI Developer Summit ArcPad Video Online

If you missed coming to the 2008 ESRI Developer Summit, or just want to relive those precious moments there, the video of the "Programming & Design Patterns for ArcPad" session can now be viewed online on the ESRI Developer Network :

http://edn.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=media.detail&media=122

2008 ESRI BPC and Developer Summit Slides

Thank you to all of you who attended and caught up with members of the ArcPad team at the 2008 ESRI Business Partners Conference and/or the ESRI Developer Summit held in Palm Springs.

We always enjoy the opportunity to meet up with you in person and discuss your ArcPad mobile GIS applications, requirements and (on of course very rare occasions) gripes :)

Craig and I presented a session on customising ArcPad at the Developer Summit. We were very pleased with your responses and questions, especially regarding the new capabilities introduced in ArcPad 7.1, that you are now adopting in your own applications. In particular new features in ArcPad 7.1, such as the new AXF database capabilties, which we like to describe as a "lightweight geodatabase", and QueryForms are being very well received.

The slides for this presentation are now available online :

http://downloads2.esri.com/EDN/downloads/other_/programming_and_design_patterns_for_arcpad.pdf

Finally, some of you may be interested in how Craig and I prepare for a presentation. Below is a behind the scenes photo mosaic, moments before the presentation room is filled with people. Craig likes to pretend he's a band member of Aerosmith to clear is vocal chords. I'm out of shot, playing the air guitar of course.