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Of course, once you've found one postcode , you find yourself a reason to find lots of them as Ashley [no link] found out. You could do something like the below (which plots all the locations in postcodeArray and even labels them this time). The pushpins
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I've just been going through my diary to make sure everything is up to date and thought it might be worthwhile posting a list of events I'll be speaking at in the near future while things are fresh in my mind. Many of these events aren't open for registration
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Things are starting to shape up nicely on the developer track so I thought I'd try and give you a flavour of what you'll see if (surely "when"?) you join us in Brighton in September for ReMix UK. There'll be a big focus on rich client with Silverlight,
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I'm a big fan of Virtual Earth and often try and sneak it into demos as many people seem unaware of its existence or unaware of just how good it is. A common question I get is "Do I need to use lat / lon or can I plot a postcode?". Absolutely you can
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ie get them while they're hot . Following on from the massive success of last year's Mix 07 , the ReMix UK 08 website has just this minute gone live. Here's a Key Facts document: ReMix UK 08 is all about bringing together the very best web design and
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I was at the BBC's mashed 08 event on Saturday at Alexandra Palace (I've never been to Ally Pally before - it's pretty cool - not exactly easy to get to though, train + tube + tube + bus for me). I was very excited to find this in the swag bag: How cool
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I've updated the page I posted yesterday so the app now supports POINT, LINESTRING and POLYGON (simple POLYGONs with no interior boundaries - ie the image on the left (below) is okay, the image on the right is not). I've also posted the source for an
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Hot on the heels of my Sql Spatial Data Generator comes my Sql Spatial Data Visualiser ! Well, sort of. A couple of people have asked me for this but it's not that easy to create an app that lives in the cloud and queries other people's SQL Servers in
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October 27-30th in the Los Angeles Conference Center, LA is where you want to be. Registration for the Professional Developers Conference 2008 has just opened. You know the deal by now: "The PDC is designed for leading-edge developers and software
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Links to the other posts in this series In Part 7 we looked at how to wrap our client components into a server control that renders the markup and script required to deliver the UI and behaviours we want. Take a look at this page to see the control in
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Thanks to Scottish Developers for inviting me to talk at their event last night. I think the Rangers game kept a few folks away but for those that are interested the source code is here and the ASP.NET AJAX Controls stuff is here . I was discussing with
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Links to the other posts in this series This really is turning into a bit of a marathon - sorry about that. Here's the full source for my implementation of the VEMapControl (without any embedded resources - we'll get to that!): using S y s t e m ; using
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Links to the other posts in this series In Part 3 we pretty much had the skeleton of a working control that would show an image in its default state and a Virtual Earth map centred at a specified location (presumably the location of the thing in the image)
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As requested, it's probably easiest to create and maintain an index post and link to that from all the posts so here goes: Building ASP.NET AJAX Controls (Pt 1) Building ASP.NET AJAX Controls (Pt 2 - Components) Building ASP.NET AJAX Controls (Pt 3 -
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Links to the other posts in this series NB I introduced an error in Pt 3 which I have since corrected (near the bottom beneath the aspx listing) So we were left with two outstanding questions after Pt 4: Can I expose my own events on my component? What
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