Developer Cheat Sheets

Tired of googling for answers, check out this site: http://devcheatsheet.com/

It has all kinds of programming reference sheets which are good for quick look ups about various concepts.

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PyDev and Installing New Libraries/Modules

If you use PyDev to create python scripts, and you add new libraries to your development system, you will need to update the interpreter.

To do this do the following:
1) Click on Project -> Properties
2) Select PyDev - Interpreter/ Grammar
3) Under the interpreter combo box, click on the text that says: "Click here to configure an interpreter not listed."
4) Press Apply -> It will take a couple of minutes to look through your PythonPaths -> Press Ok
5) Begin Coding

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MVVM for Silverlight

MV-VM is a design pattern for Silverlight and WPF.  I have recently ventured into this domain, and I found a good resource to reference:
http://viewmodelsupport.codeplex.com/
Check it out and Post you own links in the comments to help other with MVVM design patterns!

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More on Generating Excel and Word with Python

The best way to figure out what you want to do with excel and word in python is to look at the VBA object model.  Find the information here:
VBA Samples: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee692929.aspx
Excel: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa269683(v=office.10).aspx
Word: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa279125(v=office.10).aspx
 
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MS Word and Python - Helpful links

Recently I was asked to develop a geoprocessing script that creates a MS Word Doc.  Here were some links that helped me out:
http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2010/07/16/python-and-microsoft-office-using-pywin32/
http://libjoe.blogspot.com/2009/07/embedding-images-in-word-pythoncvb.html
http://win32com.goermezer.de/content/category/7/86/192/
http://code.activestate.com/recipes/279003/
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread129924.html

This is for excel:
http://www.python-excel.org/


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Web ADFs Will be Deprecated

The future of the Web AdfDF has been written on the wall.  It shall be put to rest after version 10 of ArcGIS Server.  Also, many of the new features like time awareness and feature service usage will not be supported at 10.

Check it out here.