Continuing with the previous post about GIS Map Server, we will see how to navigate in maps generated by a map server. The intention is that the experience of browsing and interacting with the maps be similar to that provided by Google Maps.
In particular, we will discuss about a popular and supported by the community library called Open Layers. It is a javascript library that aims to build a grid of images obtained from a map server and distribute the images so that they can be browsed fluidly. The library also allows to interact with the map marking points, lines and zones.
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GIS – Maps navigation with OpenLayers
Posted on March 7th, 2012 by Andrea SanchezMay the force be with Scala
Posted on February 23rd, 2012 by Andrea SanchezBy Nicolas Mouso
The aim of this post is to present the Scala programming language in the frame of a typical Java development environment, using Maven and Eclipse to compile sources making both languages (Java and Scala) coexist in the same solution.
Drag and drop to design a screen in Android, is it possible?
Posted on February 15th, 2012 by Andrea SanchezBy Ariel Debernardi
When programming on Android, we are always looking for the easiest way to design a good graphic interphase. Even though there are usability guidelines that give us an idea of how to design a clear and simple UI (and the fact that you can always count on your graphic designer buddy), there are some tools that facilitate the way to design a screen.
If we’d rather design the screen by coding it, we can use .xml files in eclipse and then see the final result in the Android emulator or in the device on which Android is running. Currently, the market offers a number of applications, among which DroidDraw Beta stands out. This is a java desktop application that generates xml code from a graphic design done on a screen simulating Android App.
Making applications at speed of light
Posted on February 7th, 2012 by Andrea SanchezBy Leonardo Filippelli
How many times we used a spreadsheet to administrate something or to solve a problem thinking in how useful it would be to have a software that allowed us to make it in a much more automatic and efficient way?
And how many of those times we didn’t do it just for not having the sufficient time for the development or because the cost-benefit relationship was not attractive? Visual Studio Light Switch is a tool that allows us to create applications quickly and writing little or nothing of code, depending on the complexity of the application.
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Rapid Web Application Development? Piece of cake!
Posted on December 2nd, 2011 by Andrea SanchezDu
ring the last years there’s been a trend in many developers to gravitate towards languages such as Ruby, Python and PHP, that offer quick solutions for the development of web applications.
In this context some new technologies emerged, inspired by Ruby on Rails. Grails, Spring Roo and Play Framework. What do they propose?
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10 Free Plugins for Visual Studio 2010
Posted on November 15th, 2011 by Andrea Sanchez
Visual Studio 2010 opened to the plugins world. The new Extension Manager (matchless in benefits to the add-in Manager of Visual Studio 2008) allows browsing and downloading easily an immense amount of plugins.
GIS
Posted on November 14th, 2011 by Andrea Sanchez
For some years it has been observed the use of Geographic Information Systems in commercial applications because they offer an interesting added value for the final user of the system. Probably the most popular case is Google Maps, since it was used in many applications, for its dissemination, easy to use and free service for geographic locations or multiple locations. This functionality by its own is key in most systems that currently work with locations (we can´t imagine a social network, a real state web site, or a site for booking hotels without a map that shows locations).
BlackBerrys will be manufactured in Argentina
Posted on October 21st, 2011 by Andrea Sanchez
Research In Motion (RIM), the Canadian company that manufactures BlackBerry, announced that they started to manufacture the first smartphones in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.
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Argentina’s path to e-government
Posted on October 4th, 2011 by Andrea Sanchez
The emergence of New Information Technologies and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in recent decades generated a major impact on the everyday life of society.
Being aware of this new reality Governments began to outline the framework for promoting the intensive use of these new technologies to optimize public administration in order to provide better services to citizens, ensure transparency in acts of government, facilitate procedures, reduce costs, generate new spaces for participation and promoting the integration of the domestic to global markets.
Hexacta sponsors the 4th Latin American Conference on Agile Methodologies
Posted on September 27th, 2011 by Andrea Sanchez
The event that has gathered enthusiastic professionals mostly related to software development for over three years will land in Buenos Aires (Argentina) this year. These will be days where learning, teaching, networking and meeting others will be the norm. This time is in Buenos Aires (Argentina) again where it all began in 2008, after passing through Florianópolis (Brazil) in 2009 and Lima (Peru) in 2010. Hexacta will be participating as a sponsor of the event. Read more »