Lizards and their families gathered at Gas Works Park yesterday for the company’s annual summer picnic. Our activities team supplied the burgers and pop, while the troops brought the dishes, dips, chips and salads …and desserts!…that made the potluck picnic a success. We closed the office a couple of hours early and headed to the north end of Lake Union.   

The day was beautiful, and the lake looked like a kid’s drawing of a lake; every kind of floating vehicle – kayaks, canoes, sailboats, seaplanes, yachts, even the Ducks tour boats made from converted World War II amphibious landing craft — was passing back and forth in front of us. 

Our sales engineer Robert won the Best of LizardTech Eats contest with his “Big Apple Pie”, a recipe he filched from some hoity-toity New York City restaurant (Serendipity) and totally nailed for us here in Seattle. Way to go Robert!

A special shout out to Genie, who started flipping burgers with a cardboard box before the utensils arrived, and cooked ‘em right!
 

The latest issue of LizardTales has metaphorically hit the street. For a glimpse into what lies ahead here at LizardTech, where you can catch us live, information about our latest product releases and more, follow this link:

http://www.lizardtech.com/company/newsletter/2009-07.php 

Our director of Engineering, Michael P. Gerlek, attended and participated in GeoWeb 2009 in Vancouver last week. The annual GeoWeb gathering is a forum for new ideas and technologies that help shape the discussion of what it means to bring geospatial support into the Internet. 

Michael trio’d up with Galdos’ Ron Lake and the OGC’s Carl Reed for an all-day, tag-team relay session called GeoWeb 101. Each of the three presented about different technologies underlying the geoweb.

Other presentations throughout the week proved interesting, too. Michael’s “trip report” was published by GeoConnexion. Here’s the link:

http://www.geoconnexion.com/geo_online_article/GeoWeb-2009-Trip-Report/322