http://evangelism.safe.com Tips, Tricks and Everything you want to know about FME Tue, 11 Jun 2013 18:12:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en http://evangelism.safe.com/fmeeevangelist115/ http://evangelism.safe.com/fmeeevangelist115/#comments Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:57:32 +0000 Mark Ireland http://evangelism.safe.com/?p=3252 FME 2013-SP2 has been released! It is 50 builds since SP1 was released; 50 builds that include a whole bunch of updates. Usually by now we're mostly adding just bug fixes and minor updates - but for 2013 we're actually adding some new functionality that we believe you shouldn't have to wait until 2014 for. So, here's my rundown on the top 10 new items in FME 2013-SP2.]]> http://evangelism.safe.com/fmeeevangelist115/feed/ http://evangelism.safe.com/fmeevangelist114/ http://evangelism.safe.com/fmeevangelist114/#comments Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:13:43 +0000 Mark Ireland http://evangelism.safe.com/?p=3106 This post is a live-blog record of the FME World Tour 2013 event in Vancouver, taking place on April 16th 2013. Presenters from Safe are Don Murray, Dale Lutz, and Mark Stoakes. Customer presentations are by Jonathon McIntyre and Steve Bogart from i-open Tech.]]> http://evangelism.safe.com/fmeevangelist114/feed/ http://evangelism.safe.com/fmeevangelist113/ http://evangelism.safe.com/fmeevangelist113/#comments Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:56:12 +0000 Mark Ireland http://evangelism.safe.com/?p=3043 Conditional Filtering is where the decision about which features are output to which connection is decided by some form of user-defined test or condition. The Tester is the prime example of this, but there are many other transformers for conditional filtering. Because of this varied selection - and because of some excellent updates in FME 2013-SP1 - I'm going to try and explain which transformer to use and when.]]> http://evangelism.safe.com/fmeevangelist113/feed/ http://evangelism.safe.com/fmeevangelist110/ http://evangelism.safe.com/fmeevangelist110/#comments Mon, 18 Feb 2013 01:00:00 +0000 Mark Ireland http://evangelism.safe.com/?p=2577 It's easier than ever to mash up a set of technologies, throw in FME Server as a geospatial engine, and produce a superb geospatial service. But, when implementing a solution is this easy, sometimes coming up with the idea of what to do is the harder task. So, for once, I'm NOT writing this post to tell you how easily and quickly all this can come together! I hope you know that already. Instead, what I'm going to do today is throw out a bunch of ideas to fire up your imagination.]]> http://evangelism.safe.com/fmeevangelist110/feed/ http://evangelism.safe.com/fmeevangelist112/ http://evangelism.safe.com/fmeevangelist112/#comments Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:00:02 +0000 Mark Ireland http://evangelism.safe.com/?p=2952 As FME2013 is released, I think the Smart Delete (Auto-Heal) function in Workbench will get a lot of attention, as will the GeometryValidator transformer, the Data Inspector table viewer, and new formats such as Socrata, Salesforce, SpatiaLite, and Ingres. But, for FME power users I have another list of updates: "Key Functionality updates". Each represents an explosion of opportunities to do new things with that particular tool. Click here to see what I mean!]]> http://evangelism.safe.com/fmeevangelist112/feed/ http://evangelism.safe.com/fmeevangelist107/ http://evangelism.safe.com/fmeevangelist107/#comments Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:50:33 +0000 Mark Ireland http://evangelism.safe.com/?p=2858 Behind the scenes at Castle Safe we've been working for some time to improve sharing information in the FME community. So, in place of the FMETalk Google group, we've just launched a new tool called Community Answers. Let me show you round and explain some of the benefits.]]> http://evangelism.safe.com/fmeevangelist107/feed/ http://evangelism.safe.com/fmeevangelist108/ http://evangelism.safe.com/fmeevangelist108/#comments Fri, 09 Nov 2012 09:30:43 +0000 Mark Ireland http://evangelism.safe.com/?p=2812 This post dives into alerts and notifications in FME 2012. It shows how I created an example project called RAFA that uses the FME iPhone apps. RAFA stands for Random Acts of FME Awesomeness. The idea is that whenever FME does something great, a user can notify the whole world via FME Server. Anyone subscribing to these alerts receives a message about FME awesomeness. Hopefully it will show you what can be done, and how!]]> http://evangelism.safe.com/fmeevangelist108/feed/ http://evangelism.safe.com/fmeevangelist106/ http://evangelism.safe.com/fmeevangelist106/#comments Tue, 30 Oct 2012 09:00:01 +0000 Mark Ireland http://evangelism.safe.com/?p=2890 http://evangelism.safe.com/fmeevangelist106/feed/ http://evangelism.safe.com/fmeevangelist109/ http://evangelism.safe.com/fmeevangelist109/#comments Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:30:39 +0000 Mark Ireland http://evangelism.safe.com/?p=2836 http://evangelism.safe.com/fmeevangelist109/feed/ http://evangelism.safe.com/fmeevangelist105/ http://evangelism.safe.com/fmeevangelist105/#comments Thu, 24 May 2012 15:00:19 +0000 Mark Ireland http://evangelism.safe.com/?p=2763 http://evangelism.safe.com/fmeevangelist105/feed/