If I’ve taken anything away from years of software development efforts I’ve witnessed it’s this: know thy customer .  And I’m not speaking strictly about packaged software for the masses, I mean ANY project, ANY size, for ANY market.  Software and systems architectures are developed by engineers who in most cases are not vertical industry subject matter experts.  Customers (users, stakeholders, pick your own term or endearment) bring that all important knowledge of their business processes and their industry.  And since they pay the bills, it probably makes sense to get to know them and their needs very well!

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The OpenLayers JavaScript map viewing client has been translated into ActionScript . The demo is a bit clunky, but overall this is a "Good Thing". Having another free and open source alternative to the Yahoo and Google ActionScript map components really gives us more of a choice for those projects that can’t meet the licensing terms of the portal companies for whatever reasons.

Traverse committed to using Flash and ActionScript over 4 years ago as a rich client alternative even though I knew we were going to have to roll our own map … Continue Reading