This is your last week to vote on the 2010 ESRI Developer Summit user presentations that will be featured in Palm Springs, California.

If you're heading to the desert for DevSummit this March, you'll want to give your opinion on what user presentations are available to attend. Make the most of your time at the event with the most insightful sessions straight from the developer community.

Anyone can vote though, so even if you're not attending, cast your opinion on what summit proceedings will be made available to you--they're a handy resource.

Voting closes February 6. Vote now.

You can now peruse the DevSummit 2010 technical sessions online via the agenda's Session Search.

Take a look at the three days of topics, times, and locations to plan your schedule and save time at the summit, or justify your trip if you haven't gotten signing up squared away.

Subject matter hits on

• Beginner to advanced topics
• Geodatabase management and development
• ArcGIS Mobile including ArcGIS for iPhone
• Desktop app development
• Web services performance and security
• Streaming live data
• Working with image services
• The ArcGIS ArcObjects SDK
• Map caching
• Product licensing
• Half-day presummit sessions on getting started with Web mapping APIs and Python
• And much more

See everything right now.

You’ve got until January 15 to submit your user presentation abstract and receive your early bird registration rate for the DevSummit.

When you share your work with us online, you can submit as many ideas as you like. And it’s not for us but your colleagues—your fellow developers who have raved about how helpful these presentations can be. So spit out your unique applications, good ideas, and code samples, or suggest a topic of discussion you want to lead.

And if you haven’t already, check out the snazzy new Web site and video at www.esri.com/devsummit. It might be good justification for why you should attend.

Presenters are also eligible for discounted registration and can have their presentations published online as part of the summit proceedings.

Share your work today.

Register yourself today.

The registration button is officially live.

The DevSummit is your event, and you won't want to miss it. It's the place to get your voice heard and your hands dirty. Ask questions and get into meaty discussions. When it comes to using spatial technology in your applications, this is your ultimate resource for the year, where you'll learn exactly how to build and deploy critical, cutting-edge solutions in your job.

Are you a mapping or spatial application developer? A software architect interested in ArcGIS? Maybe you don't use ESRI software currently. Maybe you live halfway around the world from the California desert. It doesn't matter. You'll benefit greatly.

Hear what some of your colleagues had to say about the 2009 summit.

"As a developer, it's very important for me to know about emerging trends in GIS as well as the tools best suited to my challenges; the summit is very illuminating in both these areas."

-Matthew Gerbrandt, Senior Database Administrator/Web Programmer, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Oregon

"You can sit down with ESRI developers and ask pointed questions-questions about our own personal experiences-and if someone didn't know the answer, they were able to find someone who did."

-Charlie Messer, Senior Software Engineer, Osmose Utility Services, New York

"I always get the greatest value in being able to talk to staff directly about my problems and projects. Fifteen minutes of finding the right people is worth days of telephone and e-mail tag."

-Rebecca Strauch, Analyst/Programmer-GIS, Alaska Department of Fish and Game

"I loved the deeper patterns and practices sessions available. It's great to get sessions specifically aimed at intermediate to advanced developers too ... I also thought the user presentations were great-a wonderful idea and with very interesting topics that went beyond the normal presentation subjects."

- Aaron VanWieren, Senior GIS Developer, Energov Solutions, Georgia

Register now.

Want to know what's different from last year?

• Twice as many presentation slots are available.
• The presentations are more in sync with the technical workshop agenda, helping attendees make it to both.
• They'll take place in centrally-located conference rooms instead of a demo theater setup in the Community Center.

The submission deadline is January 15. Community voting will take place through February 6. Presenters will be eligible for discounted registration and can have their presentations published on the Web as part of the summit proceedings.

See what others presented last year (just scroll to the User Presentations section).

The time has come for you to punch this event into your iPhone or Blackberry or whatever smartphone you kids are rocking these days. The 2010 DevSummit is six months away, and you probably need to start compiling some justification and planning your trip.

So, here goes.

The DevSummit is the place to be for developers and software architects interested in using spatial technology in applications. You’ll be able to pose your toughest questions to the ESRI engineers, and hear presentations given by your peers which are extremely useful upon your return to work. Join us and learn how to build and deploy critical, cutting-edge solutions.

If you like bullet lists, here are our ‘four fantastic reasons to attend.’

• Hear from ESRI developers about the future of the ArcGIS platform.
• Stay current and competitive with the latest in GIS trends, technology, and capabilities.
• Build your network of fellow GIS developers and key contacts.
• Discover best practices, lessons learned, tools, and shortcuts you can put to work right away in your application designs and daily programming.

FYI: The conference hotel this year, the Renaissance Hotel was formerly the Wyndham Hotel, so don’t panic, nothing’s changed—same great location and lodging.

Follow the event conversation on Twitter and Facebook.

Many thanks to the more than 200 attendees who took the time to answer the DevSummit Postsummit survey.

Areas you identified as needing improvement:

• There weren't enough ArcGIS Desktop/non-Web developer sessions
• Need more advanced sessions describing how-to's and lessons learned
• The level and depth of PreSummit session content needs to be reexamined
• Try not to cram too much material into the sessions
• Internet connectivity access could have been better

Areas you thought went well:

• The vast majority of attendees (99.5%) would recommend the DevSummit to a colleague
• Many positive comments about direct access to development teams and other ESRI staff
• The Keynote speaker David Chappell was a huge hit
• The User presentations were very positively received and well attended
• Networking opportunities with other developers

This feedback will help to make next year's DevSummit even better!

A majority of the code, demos, and presentations from the 2009 DevSummit are now available on the DevSummit web site.

Three user presentations are also viewable, and more will be uploaded this week.  We'll keep you posted as they become available. Here's what's ready today:

Using OpenLayers with ArcGIS Server REST API, presented by James Fee

Building RESTful Apps and Services Using MVC, presented by Brian Noyle

Unit Testing 101: Building Testable Applications, presented by Dave Bouwman

Keep in mind, you will have two viewing options.  You can either use the embedded Flash Player to view the video at 800 x 600, or you can download the WMV file and watch it locally with the Windows Media Player at a slightly higher resolution of 1024x768.  

Thanks again for your patience and we hope you find these helpful!

Streaming video for the Keynote Session is now available on the DevSummit Site.

The ArcGIS Code Challenges attracted a number of interactive entries using the ArcGIS Server APIs as well as creative mobile applications built with the ArcGIS Mobile SDK.  Congratulations to all the winners!

ArcGIS Server Mashup Code Challenge

1st: Alper Dincer—Summit ExtMap Mashup Framework

2nd: Matthew Petre—Flex Viewer Dice Job Searcher Widget

ArcGIS Mobile Code Challenge

1st: Lisa Tunnel—Environmental Compliance Field Application

2nd: Chad Yoder—ArcGIS Mobile Backup and Restore Utility

The ESRI DevSummit has started with presummit sessions leading up to the big Plenary Session on Tuesday morning.

Here's a sneak peek of some of the topics that will be talked about by senior ESRI development staff.

• ArcGIS 9.3.1 - Desktop, Server, and Java enhancements
• ArcGIS Online Search and Sharing
• Flex API for ArcGIS Server
• Explorer 900
• Early look at Desktop and Mobile 9.4
• Plus, some exciting product announcements

And if that's not enough, Scott Morehouse, director of development at ESRI, will share his vision of GIS.

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