Knowledge Integration reflects on the second in-person Arches developer conference, hosted at Belfast Castle.
The three day long conference consisted of two days of presentations, and a final “unconference” style day of discussions. The jam-packed agenda consisted of presentations regarding Arches version 8, developments to Arches Lingo and the Controlled List Manager, data quality and migration strategies, the use of Vue, and various other customisations and new pieces of project-specific functionality. The full list of presentations can be found in the official conference report on the Arches website.
Three presentations were delivered by members of our Arches team at Knowledge Integration.
- Rob Tice and Samuel Scandrett talked about integrating Arches with our CIIM middleware software, the joint projects we have with Manx National Heritage and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, and the planned upgrades to our CIIM integration Arches application.
- Chris Damm and Samuel Scandrett presented two new core Arches features that arose through our ongoing work for Jersey Heritage and simply spotting areas for improvement in Arches. These features were: extending the sort order search component within Arches, and creating a User Preferences model for storing user-specific configuration.
- Samuel Scandrett also provided a “lightning talk” presentation on the Arches QGIS Plugin and updates since the previous developer conference.
The final day was rich with technical dialogue and comprised topics such as the responsible deprecation of legacy features, Arches application management & cross-project migration strategies, Arches + GraphQL integration, and many more. Once again, the full list of discussion points can be found on the Arches website.
For the last two days of the week, we were kindly invited to join Farallon Geographics’ hackathon, where Samuel and Rob worked on the Arches QGIS plugin and the Arches-CIIM integration, respectively. It was a great experience to work side-by-side with the other Arches developers who attended, prompting many discussions, shared experiences and opportunities for pair programming.
We would like to once again thank Flax & Teal for organising an incredible conference and three days of activities. To attend and present at the second in-person Arches developer meetup is truly special to us, and we thoroughly enjoyed spending time with the wonderful Arches developer community. We can’t wait for the next one!
