Posted by Jithen (J) Singh in Events
on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 | 0 comments
The ESRI Business Partner Conference 2010 has now come to an end and for those that were not able to attend, videos from the Plenary Session are now available for viewing.
A detailed write up of the Plenary Session can be found here: http://geo.geek.nz/events/…
The videos cover the Plenary Session demonstrations and include the following topics:
arcgis.com
Desktop Usability
Server And Web Clients
Mobile Platforms
Editing Improvements
Imagery Platform
Analysis
Business Analyst Online
ArcLogistics Online
ArcGIS Server On Amazon Web Services
If you missed the Plenary Session or were not able...
Posted by Jithen (J) Singh in Events
on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 | 7 comments
Well its been a busy morning as the ESRI Developer Summit 2010 kicked into full swing. The ESRI Developer Summit 2010 kicked off yesterday morning with a number of pre-summit seminars. Information around this can be found here: http://geo.geek.nz/events/… This morning though was all about the Plenary Session and showcasing the developer message to attendees.
Once again the social media pipe’s were going crazy with almost real-time information flooding over Twitter. Many individuals were posting about what was being talked about and shown at the Plenary Session. My summary of this is as...
Posted by Jithen (J) Singh in ESRI
on Tuesday, March 23, 2010 | 0 comments
Since last week I have noticed many of those at ESRI referring to this new term called EZ-REE. Well this word EZ-REE is now the new pronunciation of ESRI.
Adena Schutzberg contacted ESRI for a statement and received this response:
As part of our efforts to grow ESRI’s name recognition globally, we are transitioning the pronunciation of our company name from “E-S-R-I” to “ezree.” This transition will occur incrementally, beginning with our external recordings. Our goal is that, over time, ESRI staff will adopt the new pronunciation; however, there is no current requirement to do so.
I see...
Posted by Jithen (J) Singh in ESRI
on Tuesday, March 23, 2010 | 0 comments
During the Plenary Session of the ESRI Business Partner Conference 2010 yesterday morning, ESRI launched the new ESRI Partner Network.
EPN is a new program designed specifically to help the global partner community. A press release has been made available talking about the this new program.
The newly launched ESRI Partner Network is designed to serve the needs of ESRI’s global partner community of more than 2,000 companies in 46 countries. These partners develop and deliver industry-leading geographic information system (GIS) solutions and services on the ArcGIS software platform.
The new...
Posted by Jithen (J) Singh in Development, Events
on Tuesday, March 23, 2010 | 1 comment
The ArcGIS API for JavaScript 2.0 Public Beta has now been made available for use. There are a number of pre-summit seminar demonstrations currently underway at the ESRI Developer Summit 2010 showcasing the ArcGIS API for JavaScript 2.0 and now you can try it yourself.
The next generation of the ArcGIS API for JavaScript, version 2.0, is now available to everyone through a public beta release. Visit the ArcGIS API for JavaScript 2.0 online SDK page to explore the new API. You’ll find a full set of help, samples, and developer reference topics to help you get started.
Version 2.0 introduces...
Posted by Jithen (J) Singh in Events
on Tuesday, March 23, 2010 | 1 comment
The ESRI Developer Summit 2010 kicked off this morning. This is running side-by-side the ESRI Business Partner Conference 2010 which had an amazing Plenary Session yesterday. Information about this can be found here: http://geo.geek.nz/events/…
Today is all about the pre-summit seminars for the ESRI Developer Summit 2010 while preparations are underway for tomorrows Plenary Session.
As per Jim Barry’s tweet earlier:
Estimating there were about 800-900 folks in the pre- #devsummit seminars today.
This is an amazing turnout for the pre-summit seminars. As attendees are collecting their...
Posted by Jithen (J) Singh in Microsoft
on Monday, March 22, 2010 | 1 comment
Late last week Microsoft announced as part of MIX10 that spatial data support will be coming to the Microsoft SQL Azure Platform.
Microsoft® SQL Azure™ Database is a cloud-based relational database service built on SQL Server® technologies. It provides a highly available, scalable, multi-tenant database service hosted by Microsoft in the cloud. SQL Azure Database helps to ease provisioning and deployment of multiple databases. Developers do not have to install, setup, patch or manage any software. High availability and fault tolerance is built-in and no physical administration is required.
This is...
Posted by Jithen (J) Singh in Events
on Monday, March 22, 2010 | 10 comments
The ESRI Business Partner Conference 2010 kicked off this morning in Palm Springs and since then there has been a steady amount of information flowing across the social media pipe. http://geo.geek.nz/events/using-social-media…
Lots of the demonstrations and content of this years Plenary was similar to that shown of at the ESRI International User Conference 2009. As the technology has been evolving, demonstrations were more in depth showcasing some of the newer functionality we have been hearing about.
Many individuals have been covering the Plenary Session via social media so I thought I would...
Posted by Jithen (J) Singh in Events
on Monday, March 22, 2010 | 2 comments
The ESRI Business Partner Conference 2010 has kicked off in Palm Springs and as the attendees watch the main Plenary Session information has been flooding through over social media.
One of the best ways to stay up to speed with what’s happening is to follow the latest news on Twitter.
Lots of good information is has been flowing through in real-time on Twitter. I am sure we will see blog posts as the day draws to a close but while the event is currently underway you would want to stay on Twitter to get the latest updates.
Follow: @esri_bpc or monitor the hashtag: #esri_bpc. This can be found here:...
Posted by Jithen (J) Singh in Development
on Sunday, March 21, 2010 | 0 comments
The ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF 1.2 is now available for download! This can be downloaded from the ESRI Resource Centre for ArcGIS Server.
This is a quality release that contains a set of updates and fixes.
There have been a bundle of bug fixes as well as a number of new features, enhancements and changes. Updates/enhancements include:
The Standard and Showcase Silverlight templates are now integrated with Visual Web Developer Express 2008.
A new event handler has been added to feature layers to listed for updates. The UpdateChanged event will fire when the all graphic...