Nick FinkStop Letting Your Software Vendors Bully YouSoftware procurement can be an overwhelming process, especially if you’re not an expert. Don’t let a vendor lock you into a deal that…5 min read·May 24, 2023----
Nick FinkThinking About Getting Into Government IT? Read This First.So you want to apply your technology skills and straighten out your local government’s open data office, or help your state update their…7 min read·Jan 4, 2022----
Nick FinkWhat I Learned About Blockchain From Playing with NFTs and OpenSeaTo better understand the crypto economy, I created some animated time series maps to mint as NFTs. Here’s what I’ve learned so far.2 min read·Dec 7, 2021--1--1
Nick Fink7 Steps to Be Less of a Nuisance When Scheduling Remote MeetingsHere we are, almost two years into the great remote work experiment, and people still can’t get this right.4 min read·Oct 6, 2021----
Nick FinkinGeek CultureSelecting Formats for Enterprise Data InteroperabilityAs organizations of all sizes adopt data driven approaches to everything, it’s become more important to ensure that investments in…5 min read·Sep 14, 2021----
Nick FinkinNew Light Technologies, Inc. (NLTServerless ArcGIS Feature Service Automation and IaC, Exercise 3Creating Infrastructure as Code with Troposphere, Python, and AWS4 min read·Feb 12, 2021----
Nick FinkinNew Light Technologies, Inc. (NLTServerless ArcGIS Feature Service Automation and IaC, Exercise 2Creating an AWS Lambda and Testing It Out4 min read·Feb 11, 2021----
Nick FinkinNew Light Technologies, Inc. (NLTServerless ArcGIS Feature Service Automation and IaC, Exercise 1Automating feature service creation from an open API and updating it3 min read·Feb 11, 2021----
Nick FinkinNew Light Technologies, Inc. (NLTServerless ArcGIS Feature Service Automation and IaCThis is the introduction to my series on managing data hosted in Esri’s ArcGIS portals programmatically.3 min read·Feb 11, 2021----