A little about myself.
Since I'm eventually ready to start my own blog I thought I would start by telling a little bit about who am I and what I've done and the reasons for starting this blog.
So, my name is François Joffre. I started working as a Web Developer for Vicinity Corporation a company specialized in mapping and location services back in January 1997. In December 2002 Microsoft Corporation acquired Vicinity and since then I've been a Microsoft full time employee of the MapPoint division. During these eight years I've been doing a lot of programming related to mapping. My specialty has been developing Store Locator applications for various customers but I've also been writing many internal applications, templates, helped developing processes and documentation.
While at Microsoft I also wrote some MSDN articles some might find useful:
Ever before my division launched Virtual Earth I've been very excited about it and its capabilities. It was all about I ever dreamed a web mapping application should be and I started developing with it.
This is one of the reasons I decided to start this blog, to talk about its possibilities, give hints and showcase some applications I wrote. Note that although most posts will be related to Virtual Earth (VE) I also plan to talk about other MapPoint technologies like the MapPoint Web Service (MWS) or the MapPoint Location Service (MLS).
Check back here often as I plan to update this regularly.
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