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A Holiday Wishlist for Developers in 2016
December 9, 2016 | By: SSP Innovations

Looking for a holiday gift for the developer in your life? Try one of these ideas from SSP Software Consultant Joe Arnold's holiday wishlist for developers in 2016.

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Developing Widgets for Esri Operations Dashboard – Part 2
December 7, 2016 By: SSP Innovations

Digging into widget development can be a lot of fun. But before you can build a better operations dashboard, let's run through a quick architecture overview to see how we…

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Tracking and Traceability: Pattern for ArcGIS Deployment
December 6, 2016 By: Tom DeWitte, Esri, Guest Author

Essential to how gas utilities prepare to satisfy PHMSA's Tracking and Traceability regulations, ArcGIS and ASTM F2897 specification are working together.

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CIM Data Modeling: Take Charge of Your GIS/ESB Integration (Part 3)
By: Joaquin Madrid, Ph.D.

This article helps you use CIM data modeling to implement decoupled integrations. It is the third post in our "Take Charge of your GIS/ESB" article series.

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Behind the Scenes: An SSP Junior Developer’s First Onsite
December 5, 2016 | By: SSP Innovations

SSP Junior Developer Corey Tokunaga-Reichert invites you to his first onsite experience, from preparing his code and clothes to life in a new office.

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Esri Utility Network – Can You Trace by Phase?
November 25, 2016 By: Skye Perry

Tying into our last post on Electric Tracing, many of our readers asked us if we could demonstrate how the new Utility Network could be used to trace by phase.…

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Esri Utility Network – Introducing Electric Tracing
November 3, 2016 By: Skye Perry

Electric tracing is a common and critical functionality. As we continue to review functionality in the Esri Utility Network, we want to take a look at electric tracing, including significant,…

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Trying Out ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud®
October 27, 2016 By: Corey Blakeborough

Earlier this year, ArcGIS announced the ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud® (beta). This allows users to seamlessly place and manipulate maps in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Maps can be…

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Beer and Popups with the New Esri JavaScript API
October 25, 2016 By: Josh King

Keep reading for a reacap of the features in the Esri JavaScript 4.1 API. In this article, we take an in depth look at brew pubs and custom popups in…

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How to Automate Your ArcGIS Installs with Python
October 21, 2016 By: Brice Childers

Installing software and setting up environments can be boring and repetitive. Using Python and its associated tools, we have many options to automate ArcGIS installs — a process which saves…

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Esri Utility Network – Migrating Your Data into the Utility Network
By: Skye Perry

SSP introduced a new "Geometric Network to Utility Network" migration process at Esri GeoConX 2016. The migration ensures your data gets loaded into the Utility Network correctly, while you take…

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Esri Utility Network – Topology, Tiers, & Subnetworks, Oh My!
October 10, 2016 By: Skye Perry

SSP continues a multi-part series on the data model utilized by the new Esri Utility Network. This month we tie many concepts together as we discuss the new network topology…

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