An Ordinary Geo Web Developer’s Blog

Google announced the new features for Google App Engine (GAE), but the most important one is the support for Java. Java Developers can use GAE for their applications with small changes. (may be big changes due to datastore restrictions )

10.000 developers can have an early access to GAE for Java through this link : http://appengine.google.com/promo/java_runtime

There are also additional feautures as :

• App Engine’s early look at Java™ language support includes a Java runtime, integration with the new Google Web Toolkit 1.6, and a Google Plugin for Eclipse
• The Google Secure Data Connector enables centrally-managed access to on-premise data from Google Apps
• The database import tool makes it easier to move gigabytes of data into App Engine (and export functionality is coming within the month)
• Cron support can execute scheduled tasks like report generation and DB clean-up at regular interval.

This new announcement may lead to change in GIS area, like implementing the GeoServer for GAE or other 3th party GIS tools for GAE

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Good news for Ext Fans, according to post on Ext JS Blog :

As we approach the three year anniversary of the initial release of Ext, the Ext Team is proud to announce the immediate availability of Ext Core 3.0 beta for download. Ext Core provides a cross-browser consistent API for performing the most common tasks in JavaScript development for web pages. Ext Core is released under a permissive MIT license – there is no cost to use Ext Core – it’s free for everyone.

Ext is mainly focused on desktop like applications on web and its file size is bigger than other libraries, but this file size has various advantages to make an desktop like application. My example for this kind of application is the “Summit ExtMap“. “Summit ExtMap” is a primitive web version of ArcView.  If you want to make much more simple application with Ext, it was very hard but now it is very easy with the help of Ext Core.

I’ getting a fan boy of Ext JS day by day

Alper.

Ext JS Core, Ext JS, Web

Please forgive me about this late post. I want to thanks everyone who voted for me at ESRI Developer Summit Mashup Challenge.  I hope all you like the “Summit ExtMap” mashup framework and use it in your projects.

The reason for this late post is “Summit ExtMap“, because I still working on framework to add some new features. The coming release will be seperated to 3 different versions as

• Summit ExtMap (for ArcGIS JS API Extension for Google Maps)
• Summit ExtMapRest (without ArcGIS JS API, works only with ArcGIS REST API and Google Maps API)
• ExtOL (Ext JS with OpenLayers supporting ArcGIS REST API)

You can choose the version suited for you. Please do not hesitate to ask for questions, new features and bugs.

Alper.

ExtMap API, ArcGIS, DevSummit, ESRI, Ext, JS, Mashup, OpenLayers, REST

Update 1 : Project name changed from PHPGeoCache to PHPGeoTiles due to a conflict, sorry for change.

Hi Geo Readers,

I am very happy to announce a new Open Source project :   PHPGeoTiles

PHPGeoTiles is a tile proxy for Web Map Services (WMS). It creates tiles from WMS to store them on local disk or Google App Engine‘s “BigTable”.

This project is not the first one, there are better implementations of caching. So there is a question that why did i started this project? There are two answers for this question :

• There is no caching mechanism written in PHP (if there are any, please let me know )
• There is no caching mechanism store tiles on Google App Engine

I have been coding for 7 years in PHP, so it is a better environment for me than Java, .NET or python. PHP is also very popular on web due to its simplicity. You can easily find hosting on internet. Also I have been using Google App Engine for 3 months to store my tiles. Google App Engine is a kind of “Cloud Computing” environment to use in your applications.

This version is the first one as numbered 0.1. So that testing phase is very limited and its your responsibility to use it in your projects.

I’m very glad to hear your comments, questions or bug reports about the project

Project Web Page : PHPGeoTiles

Update 2 : Version 0.2 is available, ArcGIS Server REST API to Google App Engine support is added to new version.

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Previous year -2008- is very active in the mean of GeoWeb. The previous post, “Thoughts about previous year, 2008“, is about the new technologies or services published in 2008.  What about the new year 2009 for the Geoweb?

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

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As I mentioned at my previous post, I haven’t blogging for almost a year and a half. Let me define the meaning of previous year :

•    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.

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After a year and a half from stop blogging, I decided to restart my new blog which is more related to GEO issues as it is seen from the domain name .

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

<?php echo “Hello World!”; ?>

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