I am excited to announce born of MapSnack. I and my colleague Jachym have created experimental Live Linux CD with GIS capability called 'MapSnack'. Interesting fact is that it can be run directly on HW or as virtual machine from VMware. The reason to do it was to give data consumers not only processed data but also basic functionality to view, analyse and publish them. Moreover installation time is either zero (in case of live runing) or just copy ISO file to your computer to run it from VMware. But may be it is crazy ... you go for a shoping and buy an ice cream and you get fridge for free...:))
download iso [669 MB] - you can burn ISO on CD and run as Live Linux
download VMX config [1 KB] to run ISO file as virtual machine
If you don't have VMware Workstation, go to VMware player to download free virtual machine player either for Windows or for Linux so you can enjoy running LiveCD on top of your host OS.
Details to run MapSnack in VMware Player: Download both files (ISO + VMX) into the same folder - named for example MapSnack. When you double click on VMX file you will get VMware player running and asking you to create new identifier...just confirm. Then MapSnack enters full screen mode...to get out back to your host OS pres Ctrl+alt.

Remastering Knoppix...

I bought my first OS system today in bookshop, it cost me 3 EUR. Interesting live distribution called ABCLinux based on Knoppix. I was particulary curious how this would run in VMWare as well directly on my HW. Booting to HW was OK, booting in VMWare as well (using kernel 2.6.x). Now how to make your own live distribution with bunch of favorite packages (instead of using those predefined). There ara many articles refering to remastering Knoppix, I have used : linuxdevcenter and tina-knoppix. Now I run my master Knoppix from HDD (using Grub loader from Debian) inside VMWare being ready for remastering.

Hacking Oracle sqlplus

Simply annoying. You know that gorgeous message saying "memory couldn't be wrrrrriten press OK to exit or Cancel to debug...". I thought that TNSLISTENER of Oracle9 could say something more...My all classical reapairments (like reboot, reinstall) came to nought. Well I tried to press cancel and see disassembler complaining that memory around zero can't be read. Of Course ! edx was 0

mov ecx,dword ptr [edx+578h]

I put edx=eax (eax seemed to be valid address) and debugger was at least for a while satisfied until he reached another address where I have used similar approach to get rid of non valid addresses...and I was able to login into my databse ! (but the problem was to do it all the time I run sqlplus;( At the end of the day I found it was something with ws32_2.dll actually windowsockets and its LSP. I used tool called WinsockXPFix.exe and restarted my laptop. All is now runing fine... But believe me, I was ready to use IDA dissasembler and permanently modify the orantcp9.dll ;) [a good tool for 'assembler scripting';]

On Intergraph way...

I've returned from Huntsville where I had opportunity to meet people behind, around and in front of the InService. Simply amazing staff and fascinating product ! Now even superb news for those sensing that their oportunity is just coming... office in Brno for programming and pre-sale force is about to be opened and job positions have been already issued on Intergraph web site. For pre-sale, please check the way here however for programmer go the right way here .

P2V port

If you are user of VMWare workstation, you may be interested of way how to migrate your existing physical machine into the virtual one. You may either buy VMWare P2V assistant starter edition or you may use the workflow for not less than trying that;) I made successful experimental migration with following configuration: OS: Windows XP professional SP1, VMware 4.0, 'Image maker': PowerQuest DriveImage 7.0. Note that later VMWares doesn't allow to run PowerQuest recovery utility ! (but waste your time and try it to prove it)
1. Make your HDD image by running Drive Image on your physical machine
2. Put the image on some acessible network or external HDD which can be seen by PQ Recovery utility
3. Configure you VMWare virtual machine for target OS with disk and nework specs.
4. Boot inside VMWare PQ Recovery utility and find your drive image
5. Run restore (I do not remember the right toggles checked in...I made it in October..leaving defaults should work)
Sample picture from migration is here

I've released some very old music... it is good for sleeping ;) here is the best sample over all mp3 there Broken Wings .. it was composed in year 1999 on old Atari with Cubase and Roland SC-88 in my small apartment 2x4m ;). Or little bit more optimistic Dance from year 1997...not enough ? then fly away like firework and don't Wait here...

At present I am at INTERGEO providing session on theme : Mobile Resource Management with IntelliWhere TrackForce. Come and meet in hall #5 at Intergraph stand. Tomorrow at 13.00 o'clock cinema section covering workforce management and field force automation will be explained in my demo too.

At GeoForum 2004 in Czech Republic I gave some words in a section Utilities and demonstrated live demo of TrackForce scenario for utilities (first time in my native language !;) The whole program can be seen here (pdf) I found someone captured me just a second before my favourite program : nearly sleeping

Intergraph Utilities Workshop 2004

Aschheim bei München - a workshop was held here for Utilities. I had to show TrackForce and OnDemand functionality. Unfortunately no resources are available for the event on the net.

I have participated on German GeoForum 2004 presentation on theme Mobile Resource Management in Utilities. More information is available here. Local copy of an abstract is available here

I have attended GeoSpatial World 2004 at Miami Beach. Most of the time at conference I spent by IntelliWhere booth.

I gave a presentation on theme 'Mobile Resource Management' on conference 'Mobile Venue 04' held in Greece on May. You may download pdf file over there or from the local store on my server here

Under #962 Certified Developer for Web Solutions based on GeoMedia WebMap has been registered.

Awarded as Certified Product Trainer on GeoMedia Professional under certification #940.

OGC workshop at Huntsville

I've spent a week in Huntsville, Alabama US for a workshop regarding OGC implementation in GeoMedia products. You may download latest interop extensions for geoMedia products here These extensions covers GML,WNS,WFS data servers and adapters kits and others... I've tried to use WMS,WFS and GML and implemented light WMS client WMSViewer. What is nice is that Intergraph has also released sources of WMSViewer check here

Conferences Autumn 2003

Attended DigitalEarth 2003 held in CzechRepublic 21-25.9 2003
Attended 1st European Workshop on Reference Grids held in Italy 27 – 29.10 2003 at JRC ISPRA

In August I've moved to Intergraph, division of Mapping and Geospatial Solutions.

Using VC++.NET in MicroStation programming has been published in Control Alt Delete magazine on pages 30-33 of III/Q issue.

I am proud to announce that this site has been awarded after 10 months of run as a member of TopTen MicroStation sites 

I have ported Detour for MicroStation v8 with success. You may now try the sample of tracing MDL functions (or arbitrary DLL function) by yourself.

Added search for this site

You may enjoy search on this site by Google engine, unfortunatelly not all pages are correctly indexed but still useful..try it now:

Setting up Visual Studio 6 IDE for MDL programming and procceding of the conference "Tvorba softwaru" are two new contributions

How to set  valid breakpoints in your DLL compiled either with Visual Studio or with MicroStation bmake. Here is described how to force Visual Studio debugger to load your dll symbols prior to other dlls

I have got an e-mail from Neil Leather discussing another way for the question  How to set different Include or Library path in Visual Studio ?... you may check it right here as secondary answer for this FAQ

I am going to present my contribution 'Evolution of software development in MicroStation' on conference Tvorba Softwaru held in Ostrava, 28-30.5.2003. So come and meet there ! Program of the conference can be found here

news group bentley.microstation.v8.mdl is internally stored  on this web site in Access database. For your custom further processing you may download the whole database (cca 30MB)

Added research project DLL Loader for MicroStation v8. This is a small utility which allows you to directly load any DLL into MicroStation process, including .NET assemblies. Source code available there as well.

Migration interpreted code into native compiled code need not to be difficult. This tutorial will give you short information about main necessary code changes in current MDL applications.

Source code for MDL wizard add-in for Visual Studio 6 has been released. You may do custom changes or extend the code as you wish. The code is simply written in Visual Basic v6. 

news group bentley.microstation.v8.mdl has been updated. Now it contains more than 4500 messages.You may do custom search with your SQL WHERE condition. Just try it !

1. Setting up V. Studio

2. MDL news group

3. Using .NET Forms

4. Going native in MDL

5. .NET & VBA interop

6. Using MFC

1. Intergraph IMGS

2. Team GeoMedia

3. IntelliWhere

4. Newsletters

5. White papers

6. News