Since this post was origianlly posted to the DOT Communities Blog, I thought I would include it here as well.
Although it was colder in Charlotte than it was in central Iowa, this year's Roads and Bridges Conference was a pleasant surprise. As most of you know, the venue was moved to Charlotte because of commitments Bentley made for a BE Conference and then dropped due to the economy. It didn't seem to make a…
As a state employee, out of state travel is one of those things that happen rarely. I was able to attend the East Road and Bridge Conference last week in beautiful Hollywood Florida. The day I left, our governor put a moratorium on travel and cancelled everyone's out of state travel for the rest of the fiscal year. Since my tickets were non-refundable, I just made it.
Flying is one of those things I try to avoid…
I was listening to some music and the REO song, Roll With The Changes came on. At that time, I was looking at the BE Communities site at the V8i community and was thinking, what changes are worth "rolling" with? As an Engineering Application Specialist, I oversee about 450 trained MicroStation users. As new versions are released, we constantly have to answer the question, "When are we going to upgrade?" …
(After a number of requests, I changed the Title to better reflect the issue)
We are in the process of purchasing new workstations for this fiscal year. We are on a 5 year cycle and end up purchasing 125+ CAD workstations every year. Usually by the end of the 5 years, the machines seem to be dragging and the new ones scream. The trouble we are starting to see and need some help with is in regards to video…