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Dave Bouwman has written up a follow-up to his question at the Dev Summit closing session about ESRI overselling ArcGIS Server.
One issue I seem to run into a lot is the gap between client expectations of ArcGIS Server, and the reality. Although I did bring this up at the closing session of the Developer Summit, [...]

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Yikes - I just saw this draft from yesterday that I didn’t get posted so pardon the untimeliness of it.
The closing Q&A session was over lunch and was pretty calm. A couple issues were raised that I thought I would mention.
VB6 will not be supported at ArcGIS 9.4 and you should really move to [...]

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Well I think most would agree, the 2008 DevSummit was one of the best.  There was tons of new stuff to learn about, much more attendees, more ESRI staff, better layout of the conference (the Community Center was particularly good) and better session (and more of them).  So what did I take away from the [...]

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My laptop seems to have died and I can’t get it to boot up at all. I’ll try and get my notes figured out when I get back to the office, but you can read some blog posts from Day 2 of the Developer Summit. I’m sure we’ll see more come online tomorrow [...]

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Jeremy Bartley and Keyur Shah (of http goodness fame) presented the first ArcGIS Server REST API session.  ArcGIS Server can work with practically any client moving forward.  To use the REST API, you publish your ArcGIS Server service like you’ve been doing (or reading about) for years.  This means you can serve up simple maps [...]

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Jim McKinney opened the Plenary by introducing Jack Dangermond to welcome everyone to the DevSummit. The DevSummit has gotten much bigger over the last 3 years. It had more than doubled since the first DevSummit. The conference has changed from previous years. It is a longer a conference than before (pre-conference [...]

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How about this choice at the ESRI Store at the Developer Summit?

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I’ll be driving out from Tempe early tomorrow morning to the 2008 ESRI Business Partner Conference. I’m looking forward to meeting and talking with everyone. Feel free to email me if you want to hook up and get drinks or food (I’m staying at Hotel Zoso down the street). I’ll of course [...]

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OK, as promised, we are going to have yet another meetup this year at the ESRI Developer Summit. If you are going and want to hang out and talk shop, feel free to drop on by. You don’t need to be a blogger, developer or even at the Summit to attend. Just [...]

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So we all hate at least parts of the WebADF but complaining about it won’t do anything. Dave says it is time for us to do something about it. I agree, bitching about software is therapeutic, but it doesn’t help any of us get our work done. Dave, Doron and Matt have [...]

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I think most of those who have been involved with ArcGIS Server, the Developer Summit is really were we get detailed discussions. The podcast talks about what the session will be which is pretty much what Art has been saying for the past few years. More Microsoft AJAX, .NET and other MS web [...]

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It appears that there are now rooms available at the Hilton for the $185 rate. If you missed out earlier and now want to stay closer to the Dev Summit take advantage of this opportunity. Quite a few of us are staying at Hotel Zoso just down the street from the convention center [...]

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Three people today have told me that the conference rate at Hilton Hotel is sold out (rooms are available, but they run about $300/night) and the Wyndam hotel is essentially sold out (only single nights are available) for both the Business Partner Conference and the Developer Summit. So if you want to attend either, [...]

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I’m frankly astounded at that prize. Last year had some nice ones, but this is quite a step up from a GPS unit or an Xbox 360. Better get coding because it will take more than a Flickr task to get that money.

First Place - $15,000
Second Place - $7,500
Third Place - $5,000

Any intelligent [...]

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Rob Elkins says that there will be some complimentary pre-conference seminars at the 2008 ESRI Developer Summit next year. I have to say this is probably a good idea as many of the folks I talked to at the Dev Summit last year were well over their heads as many of the sessions are [...]

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Looks like ESRI interviewed Dave Bouwman at the 2007 Developer Summit and has posted a Podcast of the discussion.
Listen to Bouwman discuss developing custom GIS solutions for forestry and describe some of the large projects he has worked on.
I’ll probably listen this weekend while I’m painting at the new house (no jokes about paint drying [...]

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The Keynote Presentation by Mark Driver of Gartner Research about the strengths and weaknesses of the Java and .NET environments is now available for download. I missed most of the presentation so I can’t really say how valuable it was, but it appears it was well received by those who attended.
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As was announced at the Dev Summit, here are the results for the ArcGIS Server Code Challenge.

First Place - Hussein AlSayegh won a Trimble Recon GPS XB Edition bundled with ArcPad software for his AJAX TOC sample
Second Place - a Microsoft Xbox 360 went to Ranjit Menon for his sample of persisting and retrieving data [...]

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Despite the fact that the whole Developer Summit is pretty much a .NET SIG, Art Haddad and the rest of the .NET team at ESRI hosted a .NET SIG during lunch today. Dave Bouwman was definitely the highlight with his talk about the Agile process. Steve’s got a great writeup of the SIG [...]

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The dinner tonight was pretty good, Mexican food is always welcome. The weird part was the music. They had these two ladies singing lounge music seemed WAY out of place for a developer summit. Some of the folks that were eating at the table seemed to think these should have been for [...]

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