May 31

This is pretty sweet.  When Geoffrey Emery and I presented at the Microsoft SQL 2008 Fire Starter in Irvine we showed a lot of examples of viewing SQL 2008 spatial data in Microsoft Virtual Earth.  We did this primarily by grabbing the GML output from SQL 2008 and converting it to a GeoRSS feed, which Virtual Earth reads natively.

Using the Builder API we could write a routine to output directly in GeoRSS.

I’ll see if I can play with this later and give an example.

SQL 2008 is really starting to come together and it’s pretty exciting.

Isaac @ MSDN : Our Upcoming Builder API

May 30

jQuery never ceases to amaze me.

Almost makes me want to go into JavaScript programming as a career. :)

One line of jQuery code to get that cool page flipping effect. No Flash needed.
$("#g1").jFlip(300,300,{background:"green",cornersTop:false});

http://www.jquery.info/scripts/jFlip/demo.html

May 30

Ah, the times may change but the user issues don’t. :)