MDT - Magik Development Tools

In order to optimize Smallworld™ software development process the following companies decided to use MDT Professional Edition Portable: GIT HydroS Consult GmbH, regioDATA GmbH and SmallCases GmbH.

GIT HydroS Consult GmbH provides a wide range of solutions for water management and stands for a sustainable environment and resources management.

regioDATA GmbH as a service provider offers complete solutions around GIS and geodata management for companies and communes.

SmallCases GmbH offers consulting services in the field of communal geographic information system for specification, development and operation of Smallworld GIS installations.

You can find a full list of MDT customers here.

Magik Development Tools became a significant part of GE Energy’s strategy related to geospatial software applications development.

GE is pleased to see third party applications such as MDT that enable customers to customize applications on Smallworld - confirmed Martin Ansell, General Manager Smallworld™ of GE Energy. The architecture of our Smallworld software products and the use of open standards has encouraged a fast growing development community. We will continue to closely support companies like ASTEC in support of our position as a leading provider of geospatial solutions.

Thanks to GE Energy’s support ASTEC plans to publish a new MDT release compatible with the incoming Smallworld™ CST version in 2010. Strong cooperation with GE Energy is essential for providing Smallworld™ community with the new powerful development environment.

We present to you the first issue of MDT Magazine (No 1/2009 Autumn). The Magazine is addressed to anyone who is interested in geospatial systems built with use of Smallworld™ technology and Magik programming language. We would like to present some technical details, useful hints for developers, results of tests and many other interesting information.

In the first issue of MDT Magazine we would like to introduce ourselves and MDT. In the News section you can read about the acknowledgement of our project by GE Energy. The Technology section contains an interesting comparison of MDT and Emacs efficiency and some information about the new debugger for Magik. In the last Interview section Mr. Oliver Löken shares with us his impressions about implementing MDT in GIS Consult.

This year's Smallworld™ Americas Users Conference took place on October 18-22 at the Renaissance Glendale Hotel and Spa in Glendale, Arizona. At the conference ASTEC presented services in Smallworld™ technology and the new portable version of MDT. We were pleasantly surprised by high number of the conference participants interested in our IDE.