I mentioned a while ago that the presentations from the ESRI Developer Summit 2008 were posted on EDN: http://mandown.co.nz/events/… Sterling has posted a nice summary of the presentations available for the relevant topics. This makes it easy to get to the technical workshop presentations. This summary can be found here:...

I missed this last month when the geodatabase development team at ESRI released their new blog. The new blog titled Inside The Geodatabase has some hot news and tips about geodatabases in the ESRI world and this all comes direct from the development team members. The scope of this blog will range from introductory information regarding general Geodatabase functionality to some more advanced topics and developer related material. We’ll be blogging on things like best practices, new and existing Geodatabase functionality, example workflows and updates from events team members are part of. Also, when...

Ah! It’s all come to an end. I am sitting in a cafe at Los Angeles International Airport killing some time before my flight back to New Zealand. I land early in the morning in Auckland then catch a connecting flight back to Wellington. It’s been a long day, just coming off a flight from Denver! My time in the US has been awesome. I really enjoyed the ESRI Developer Summit and Business Partner Conference. My wrap up of the ESRI Developer Summit 2008 can be found here: http://mandown.co.nz/events/… Look forward to catching up with everyone next year! Brian, hopefully you can make it...

This was quite a talking point of the ESRI Developer Summit. Due to other presentations on many were not able to get along to see this. Mansour Raad has now made this presentation available. This API is intended to be released post 9.3 and will be based on the REST protocol and is very closely modeled after the JavaScript API. The download has been made available from his blog rather and can be downloaded here: http://thunderheadxpler.blogspot.com/2008/… Mansour’s post on this can be found here: http://thunderheadxpler.blogspot.com/2008/… Thanks for Mansour for making this...

Jim mentioned a few times during the ESRI Developer Summit that the presentations of the technical sessions have been posted. For those looking for links, you can find them here: http://events.esri.com/bpc/… and http://edn.esri.com/…. Not all the sessions are available as yet but I am sure these will be posted as soon as possible. So for those that missed some of the sessions or didn’t attend the ESRI Developer Summit, head over and have a...

So its over and I thought I would write a quick wrap up of the ESRI Developer Summit 2008. Firstly I wanted to say a big thanks everyone involved in organising and putting this event together, the event exceeded my expectations. It was well organised and just perfect. Secondly a big thanks to all the presenters. I know what it’s like preparing presentations and demos and everyone did a great job. This was one of the best conferences I have been to. ESRI did a great a job. The ESRI Developer Summit has really evolved over the last three years and at its current stage ranks right up there. ESRI is...

Security has been a big question when it comes to ArcGIS Server. We have a number of clients asking how to go about implementing simple security with ArcGIS Server. This was never easy in the past and a custom solution was required or IIS security but with ArcGIS Server 9.3, they have addressed this issue with some great options. Using the ArcGIS Server Manager you are now able to enable and control security. The ArcGIS Server Manager enabled security for services and the API’s. ArcGIS Server 9.3 has role based security and makes use of the ASP.NET security framework. For services there is a new...

Wow I am finally catching up with all these sessions. Another big session that I was looking forward to. Since I work quite extensively with the ADF and ArcGIS Server, I wanted to get an insight into what is new and what’s coming in ArcGIS Server 9.3. I ended up taking quite a few notes so here they are: A quick survey of the audience showed that C# rules over VB.NET. Quite interesting actually! So the model that Art Haddad presented was as follows: Client – JavaScriptServer – .NETHybrid – Balance The ArcGIS Server 9.3 ADF is a hybrid platform. ArcGIS Server 9.3 now uses the...

It was good to see ESRI talking about and placing quite a bit of focus on ArcGIS Mobile. Since it’s introduction ArcGIS Mobile has evolved into a powerful product with a great SDK. At version 9.3 a new out of box, configurable application called ArcGIS Mobile Editor is also available. I have been working on ArcGIS Mobile for quite a few months and we implemented a very similar mobile editor to what was showcased at the plenary session so it was good to attend this session to get an insight into some programming and design patters for the ArcGIS Mobile SDK. Some of my notes for this session is...

I am always interested in increasing performance so I was really looking forward to some of the content in this session. The session started off pretty basic and kind of stayed that way. Much of the content was at a high level which made the session long. Some of my brief notes are below: With a few python scripts you can now estimate how long a cache will take to generate. Copying a cache has always been a problem. We have had numerous issues on copying larges caches from one location to another. This is because of the many files that exist. Using windows explorer will cause windows to index the...