This post explores a suggestion from an FME training course attendee on how to track assets using a combination of iPhone, Twitter, and GeoRSS. It’s simple and quite practical for use on a small scale.
Whether or not you use the term ‘cloud’, online data storage is now a common phenomenon; from an FTP site, through Google docs, to services such as Amazon S3. This post describes how accessing online data can be done with FME, using Amazon S3 as an example.
It’s strange to think that FME Server is really just another tool for running a workspace.
But what a tool it is! Web services, job queuing, failover, fault tolerance, security, and much more. So, this post is all about the updates to FME Server that make the FME2010 version an even better place to run that workspace!
Dynamic and Generic are two aspects of FME functionality, alike in purpose but still distinct features in their own right. To put it succinctly, Dynamic ≠ Generic. So this post explains the differences (and similarities) and covers the huge improvements made for multipurpose workspaces in FME2010.
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