Upcoming uDig Training

LISAsoft is pleased to announce two uDig training courses in the Australian market:

• Sydney Jan 31st to Feb 2nd
• Melbourne Feb 7th to 9th

LISAsoft has updated the uDig training course to cover the latest 1.2.1 release including an early preview of GeoTools 2.7.

This is a world renowned course now in its fifth year. The uDig training course is highly recommended for development teams new to uDig, Eclipse RCP or Geospatial development. The courses packs a punch at 5 days, split between the introductory 3-day course and an advanced 2-day course later in the year, covering everything from disk to screen. Material is well paced providing a gradual introduction with advanced exercises to test your knowledge or explore new areas in depth.

For more information or contact information please see:
http://www.lisasoft.com/Registration

Is Australia too far away? Would you prefer an on-site course customised for your development team? The uDig training course is available from supporting organisations in North America, Europe and Australia. Please contact a PMC member in your area for details.

uDig Code Grind Day 4 Australia

An interesting day ... John Hudson returns with a partner in crime by name of Jim Groffen and proceed to keep pace verifying all the bugs being fixed. They also identified the instructions for setting up a development environment as in need of fixing (due to the recent arrival of Eclispe 3.5).

Mark started hooking his user interface up to the StyleBlackBoard (and then want off on the town all dressed up - perhaps he had a date? Ugo Taddei is not the only good looking guy around here).

Jody stayed up till oh dark early with the following (admittedly cool) screen snaps emerging. The first one is command completion with the entire function list avaialble as you type. And it is generated on the fly so it is always current!

Next one is also interesting - field decorators that can provide feedback (warnings; errors; if the field is erquired etc...).

Yes the warning tool tip on the decorator is a really horrible message from the Extrended Common Query Language Parser - I am going to see if we can get row,col information out so we can highlight where the problem is exactly and save the message as a "more details" kind of thing.

uDig Bug Crunch Day 3 Australia

Bug crunching is in full swing today with almost all the bugs to be marked as FIXED on the Code Sprint Road Map verified and closed.

Moving onto the "to be verified" list, I started to see a trend for "Catalog Improvements" issues. After a short discussion on the uDig IRC channel, Jody and I came to the conclusion we should make a single Feature Request and close all the other issues, check it out here. Looks like this has been something wanted for quite sometime, I closed five separate feature requests.

For the interested, Jody as been working on a new Catalog View Proposal which outlines a improvements, check it out here, its pretty cool!

uDig Code Grind Day 2 Australia

Today we are branching out across Australia with LSIAsoft developers from Sydney and Adelaide.

First up is John Hudson, drawing on earlier motivation, has focused on chewing the bugs listed on the Road Map and verifying and/or closing bugs.

Back in Sydney Mark has started putting together the new Point Symbolizer page (see below).

Jody was mostly decorative and has been working on a reuseable ExpressionViewer to use for each of the fields above. He promisses to be useful tomorrow.

TileSync

TileSync, based on uDig, developed by LISAsoft in conjunction with Landgate and ExaMin, allows a user to select any feature (Polygon) and add it as a Region Of Interest to a Region Of Interest View. The View allows the User to locally cache a any WMS-C Layer in the Catalog within the bounds of the Region Of Interest. The plugin also allows the local cache to be exported with TAB (MapInfo) header files and a seamless XML file.



Also included is a MapGraphic which outlines the Region of Interest on the Map View when it is selected in the Region of Interest View.


A bundled version is available for download here, and a copy of the plugin can be checked out of the uDig community SVN here.

I have made up some flash videos on usage available online:

• Quick Start Guide
• New Polygon Layer
• Existing Shape File