ESRI Developer Summit Blog

Congratulations to the winners of the 2008 ArcGIS Server Code Challenge. 

Listen to a few of the participants discuss their entries in these Podcast interviews.

2008 ArcGIS Server Code Challenge: Kent Riggins

Kent Riggins, a software engineer with the U.S. Federal Government, briefly discusses his ArcGIS Server Code Challenge entry, Show Result Table Task in ArcGIS Explorer.

2008 ArcGIS Server Code Challenge: Keith Fraley

Keith Fraley, GIS Developer with Shell Oil Company in the U.S., discusses his ArcGIS Server Code Challenge entry, WMS Search and Spatialization Tool for ArcGIS Server.

2008 ArcGIS Server Code Challenge: Dave Bouwman  

Dave Bouwman, 2nd place winner of the ArcGIS Server Code Challenge at the 2008 ESRI Developer Summit, talks about his code sample entry, ArcGIS Server Virtual Tile Server.

We have finished posting the Dev Summit session Powerpoints and code samples (where applicable) on the EDN Conferences page. To find the slides, simply click on the individual session name and you will see links to the relevant slides, podcast recordings, and code samples on the upper right hand side of the page.

The Technical session videos are coming soon as well, so keep an eye on the Dev Summit blog for news announcing when they are ready.

A number of people mentioned that they wanted to share Alan's ideas with colleagues who weren't at the conference.  Many of his ideas are explained in a web article on the Cooper site titled Design engineering: the next step.

Due to high demand, the .NET ArcObjects Error Handling demo theater presentation will be repeated on Thursday at 1:30pm in Primrose C/D.

As presenters are completing their slides, we are making them available as PDF files via both the online agenda and EDN Conference page. About one fifth of the technical sessions are available now.

ESRI is currently distributing the beta version of ArcGIS 9.3. Below are some pictures of the beta being created in Redlands, California on March 11, 2008. 

Read the press release.

We’ve published answers to your questions from the pre-summit survey. Read the responses.

Several people noted that it would be easier to initiate a conversation with other attendees if they knew their interests. As a result, we’ve created buttons that you can wear. You may pick up buttons in the registration area.

This year’s ESRI Developer survey results are available as a PDF download. The purpose was to help us determine how well our developer resources are meeting the needs of our developer community.

Sathya Prasad shares what developers can expect to learn from the "ArcGIS Server for ArcIMS Developers" session at the upcoming Developer Summit in Palm Springs, California, March 17-20. The presentation will include the philosophy behind ArcGIS Server, as well as issues a developer faces when moving from ArcIMS to ArcGIS Server.

Listen or download: MP3 [6:00 | 2.78 MB]

David Cardella and Antony Jayaprakash share what attendees can expect to learn at the "Developing Advanced Java Web Applications" session geared toward advanced Java users.

Listen or download: MP3 [7:38 | 3.45 MB]

Albert Cooley, senior director of tools and services, and Todd Schmitt, senior manager of enterprise markets, both with Tele Atlas, discuss their participation at the upcoming 2008 ESRI Developer Summit in Palm Springs, CA, March 17-20.

Listen or download: MP3 [16:12 | 7.45 MB]

Erik Hoel and Mike Muller share what developers can expect to learn at the "Effective Geodatabase Programming" session. As the geodatabase development leads, Hoel and Muller are uniquely qualified to guide programmers in implementing effective applications using the geodatabase API.

Listen or download: MP3 [7:15 | 3.35 MB]

--Published February 21, 2008

Jay Chen and Mike Shaw discuss what developers can expect to learn by attending the "Programming and Design Patterns for the ArcGIS Mobile SDK" session, including how to build applications with mobile SDK, taking architecture into consideration.

Listen or download: MP3 [6:41 | 3:09 MB]

Alan Cooper, pioneering software inventor, programmer, designer, and theorist will give the keynote address on Wednesday morning of the DevSummit.  Widely known as the "father of Visual Basic," Cooper has been helping companies invent powerful, usable, and desirable software for the last decade.

Learn more about Alan Cooper.

The Developer Summit is only four weeks away and the current registration is 1,023.  This is up 15% compared to the same time last year.  1,170 people attended in 2007, so we project about 1,350 attendees this year. 

Because of the larger attendance, we're making the following changes to help improve your summit experience:

• The most popular Technical Sessions will be in rooms with two large screens arranged on the long wall. Therefore, the chairs at the back of the room will be closer to the screens than last year.
• The ESRI Showcase is larger and includes a Demo Theater.
• The Community Center is larger.
• The areas for Tech Talks will be located closer to the sessions.
• Extra screens will be placed midway in the Plenary session.

Be part of the excitement. Register today.