I have been busy for a new project and I couldn’t find any time to write on blog but I hope it will worth for it.

Anyway, I want to say to all of you :  Happy new year and I wish all of your wishes come true

Anyway, military service was a big burden on my shoulders and now it is over. What about the future plans?

For now I’m planning a trip to USA for a job interview and I may change my continent within next months.

I also started to refresh my brain to get new version of Ext JS to improve ExtMap. Yes, you read correctly, I’ll continue to develop ExtMap, but this time, I will try a different way.  During my military service period, I saw some geo web applications which partially/completely uses ExtMap Framework, but they deleted credits part and sold it to their customers. I can’t understand why people are doing such things. I don’t want any money from them, just credits page.  Anyway, I’m working on that problem.

I have also plans to work on Google App Engine both for the web and geoweb, but I need time to understand the new approach to write applications on No-SQL platform. This approach may shape the scalibility of future web applications.

As a result, I’ll make a fresh start in my life and this gonna be awe…. (wait for it)….someeeeee

PS : Thanks to Barney Stinson for his great catchphrases

There are also other fields at “Qualified Developer Program” such as Geo 3D or KML.  The main idea of the program is to show your developer skills but not in ordinary way. Other programs usually need to take an exam and pass it, but Google follow a different way to qualify.  You get points from “Application Development” (1000 pt), “Community Participation” (1000 pt),  “References” (1000 pt) and “Qualification Exam” (2000 pt). As it is seen, there are 5000 points and you must get 3000 points at least to get qualified. So that, if you are an active developer you can get qualified without taking the exam.

Anyway, last week I took the exam, get my missing points and get qualified as a “JS Maps API Developer” You can see all the qualified developers at http://code.google.com/intl/tr-TR/qualify/directory.html By the way, I’m the first “Google Qualified Javascript Maps Developer” in Turkey and hope to see other Turks as a Maps Developer.

I just started looking new job opportunities to make a fresh start after finish of my military service. If you have any suggestions or offers, please feel free to contact me via (alper {[att]} geowebdeveloper {[dooot]} com ) By the way, I don’t have any limits for the city that I’ll work.

If you are curious about what I’m doing now, let’s say that I’m doing similar things what I’ve been doing in my normal life. I’m coding web applications (without geo parts) with ASP.NET and C#.

See you until I find a chance to connect internet.

Bye.

I will be away from computers, internet and my ordinary life for 6 months due to joining Turkish Air Forces. Some of you may know that military service is obligatory for Turkish Men in Turkey and now it is my turn to finish my duty There is also possibility to have a computer related job in army and be connected.

Anyway, please do not wonder about me, see you next year

Bye Bye…

There are classic posts about the predictions or wish lists appear on blogs and I want to do same

Wish list/Predictions For Web and Geoweb in 2009 :

• Google App Engine releases GIS extension for BigTable,
• Google App Engine adds PHP/Ruby/Perl support for Apps
• Google App Engine releases a desktop application to transfer data between data formats or servers
• Google Maps adds Street View for Turkey
• Google Maps adds Driving Directions for Turkey
• ESRI releases the Offline Maps for ArcGIS Server
• GMail adds Offline support
• Community/ESRI adds ArcGIS Server API/support for OpenLayers (there are some possibilities from community, but not a fully supported)

These are my wishes or predictions about the Web or Geoweb in 2009, I would like to hear yours if any

•    A year to think about what to do
•    A year to make big changes in my life
•    A year to decide to take risks or not
•    A year to welcome Google Maps Flex/Flash API
•    A year to welcome Google Earth Browser API
•    A year to welcome ArcGIS Server 9.3
•    A year to welcome ESRI REST Services and ESRI ArcGIS Server JavaScript APIs
•    A year to start working with OpenLayers

Hmmm, it seems there are lots of changes both in my life and geo web.

This is my first post and lets start with “Hello World!” in PHP.

<?php echo “Hello World!”; ?>