Archive for February, 2012

New Support Center Contest Winners

February 29th, 2012 by Alex McKeachie

When we launched our new Geocortex Support Center in 2011, we challenged members to participate in our Discussion Forums by sharing knowledge,  and helping to build a strong, vibrant Geocortex user community. Prizes were offered to acknowledge key community contributors. The first contest was such a success that we ran a follow-up contest that ended on Valentine’s Day (Feb 14).

A drum roll please….

After reviewing five months’ of forum contributions and feedback, the Geocortex Support Team is ready to announce the winners!

Congratulations to Brad Fisher, our MVP and winner of the $1000 prize. Brad’s work with Critigen on the Thames Tunnel  enterprise GIS, built on ArcGIS Server and Geocortex, provides effective tools to analyse, visualize and access information. Brad cites Geocortex’s ability to rapidly deploy feature-rich, secure map browsers as central to this important project’s success. Brad has been consistently active on the Forums for the  duration of this contest, and has been a great community contributor.

Kudos also to Mike Hargreaves, another significant and helpful contributor to the Forums, who has been selected for the $500 prize. Mike is responsible  for the delivery of both WebADF and Geocortex Viewer for Silverlight interactive maps for both internal and public-facing audiences in the City of Santa Rosa.

A big “Thanks!” to both of you.

Brad Fisher (MVP) - GIS Technical Lead - Critigen - London UK

Mike Hargreaves (MVP Runner-Up) - GIS Coordinator - City of Santa Rosa, USA

Although Brad and Mike are being specifically acknowledged, the Latitude Geographics Team salutes all contributors to the Geocortex Discussion Forums. We’re thrilled to see this community thrive, grow, and help each other succeed with Geocortex software.

We’re readying the next Support Center contributor contest…

Stay posted. We’re really pleased with what the community has provided to date, and want to encourage contributions to the new Geocortex Code Gallery. Another iteration of our contest will run again soon.

Geocortex Code Gallery is Now Available

February 2nd, 2012 by Alex McKeachie

We’re pleased to announce the launch of the Geocortex Code Gallery. The Geocortex Code Gallery is an area of the Geocortex Support Center where the community can share code snippets, sample applications, workflows and other user-generated content.

The Geocortex support team has included a small nucleus of content to kick-start the gallery, but the expectation is that most content will come from Geocortex customers, implementers, and business partners.

The Geocortex Code Gallery is as a place where you can show off your work and view real-world solutions developed by other community members. We encourage everyone to submit reusable code, discuss the existing samples, and work together to improve the quality of this resource. If you find something in the code gallery that you can improve upon, or add functionality to, please submit your contribution while acknowledging the original author.

Last week we silently enabled the code gallery with a “beta” tag. We will consider it to be in “beta” for the time being as we may make changes or adjustments as we monitor its adoption by the community. Our hope is that it will quickly become an integral part of our Support Center and a valuable resource.

Please think about what you may want to contribute, and give us any feedback that you have!

-Alex McKeachie
Geocortex Support Manager