Latest Contributions by KirkMower

Kicking users would be my number 1 request. Some people squat ArcInfo when they have no business doing so, worse if they leave it on and leave the office. ... View more

Yes, cross-section support needs to be enhanced. ... View more

It is also apt the they use Geronimo because this is what one would properly yell when jumping off a cliff...and I agree with Robert that lack of documentation still leaves us on a wing and prayer. Just because 'It has always been thus...' doesn't mean it needs to continue...However, Robert, rest assured that as long as ArcGIS Server remains the black art that it is, you will have job security. GO ESRI. ... View more

We are having the same issues. Apparently ArcGIS Server (10.1 with all service packs) needs a jump start in the morning. That is, it seems to have fallen asleep overnight as it goes idle. The problem isn't so much the the fact that it is sleeping, but that it doesn't wake up on the web calls from the web-based application. It seems to require a harder kick from 'Mom and Dad', that is us, by hitting the REST endpoint directly from the browser. This isn't consistent behaviour either, as it seems to have 'big nights out' where it doesn't wake up, and other mornings where it stayed at home studying... I suspect that this is a 'feature' to get ArcGIS to run more 'politically correct' for those shortsighted IT managers that have been sold the dream of virtualization at all costs. I don't think those of us who have the foresight to buy a physical server and have a good solid three-tier architecture should have to pay for this. We have been down that road of explaining why virtualization just doesn't work well enough many times. So, can we please have a setting that allows us to keep the service running and alert at all times, even if it does take up extra CPU and memory, with the full knowledge that the CPU and memory is all ours anyway? I think that ESRI has cut server off at the knees to please performance hedging numpties in shared environments. ... View more

I am having exactly the same issue. For no apparent reason, I can no longer publish to the Server, restart or refresh services from Manager, or anything useful really. [ATTACH=CONFIG]22242[/ATTACH] I have logged a support call two days, and have received nothing but silence on this one...anyone can help out there? Thanks. ... View more

Yeah, this is a major PITA. Is there a fix for this? Hello - Earth to Redlands - can you read me? ... View more

I am having exactly the same issue. The error is: We were unable to connecto to http://aupdcwpesr02/arcgis (also tried with /admin after arcgis) Error: ERROR: code 404, Could not find resource or operation 'publicKey' on the system., No resources could be found at that address. Did you ever resolve this? Does anyone know how to resolve this - Again it is 10.1 Desktop final to 10.1 Server pre-release. ... View more

HTML 5 is a presentation layer. So if all you want to do is tween an animation across a screen, or make some fold-out menus, then go for it. HTML 5 is not an application development platform. Flex is an application development platform. Flash started out where HTML 5 is now in 1997 when Macromedia purchased the then start-up 'FutureSplash'. FutureSplash was amazing in that it streamed content to the browser plug-in, greatly reducing download speeds. This allowed for animations far beyond the animated GIFs of the day. HTML 5, on the other hand, relies on heavy duty broadband connections of today - that is everything has to be loaded before _anything_ can happen. Flex has evolved out of the long and rich history of Flash - and a lot of smart ColdFusion people (like Paul). It can still stream data into the app - just try and load some WFS data via HTML 5 ... oh, and then take that GML and actually _draw_ something meaningful. That's one big reinvention of the wheel. Flex and its Flash underpinnings can draw just about anything right now - add in the ready made graphing libraries, the widgets to load tiles...oh and the 'stage' in Flex has always had a layered concept - no need for all that flunking around with Z levels, etc... Mobile Flex development = AIR. AIR is the wrapper for Flex apps that will allow a flex app to be deployed anywhere - iOS, Android, Desktop, Mac, and so on. And right now, the Flash player in the browser displays exactly the same content across _all_ browsers - Mozilla, IE and its variants, Chrome, Opera, Dolphin (even on Android)...and right now, none of these browsers support the standard for JavaScript in the same way, let alone HTML 5. So the proto-Marxist dream of everybody getting together and working to standards for the common good, well, is a great idea in theory (like Marxism itself), but the commercial model always tends towards Microsoft's own approach to standards: 'Embrace, extend, extinguish'. Sad but true, and Flex has managed to cut through all of that type of BS over a long history with Flash and delivers a solid and robust app development platform for the web and mobile right now. No 'ifs', 'and's or 'buts'... ... View more

Thanks JB - yeah, we worked it out for ourselves - A quick start or two with the download would be great. The separation of Image Server (standalone) and Image Server Extension information online really needs to be better delineated. [edited] ... View more

Thanks for that. [edited] I understand the movement away from Image Server as a standalone product. I understand mosaicked datasets. I understand that the definition of the mosaicked data set is a definition of the footprint(s) and their properties etc. However, I do not do everything myself these days, and the team needs to understand this. I don't expect them to know the history of this stuff from ArcIMS 3 to the present - they just need to use some working tools to achieve a result. That is - we have file based imagery here - we have ArcGIS Server with the Image Server Extension - and we have ArcGIS desktop with a toolbox. What's missing here is the workflow - not definition of each component part in isolation - yes, those can be found by piecing together the web based documentation. For example - a quick start guide for a clean install of ArcGIS Server 10 (Advanced Enterprise) with Image Server extension. The documentation thrown in about Image Server as a standalone product is confusing as hell - again, I understand these subtle differences, but not everyone does - and I find myself in discussions that are a meld between system architecture and philosophy when trying to dis-entangle the documentation for for my team. [edited] Thanks. ... View more

[edited] Anyway, I would like a compilation of image server information rather than a hunt and peck for links. Perhaps instead of so many disparate sources - they could be gathered together - sort of like the concept of a database join...alternatively, the Erdas documentation is a good example of 'technical' information on an image server - copying what they have done would be great. Thanks. ... View more