This is just a quick heads up to let everyone know that the majority of the code, demonstrations and presentations from the ESRI Developer Summit 2009 is now available online. The proceedings posted include material for the following: Presummit Seminar Technical Sessions Developer Keynote Session User Presentations Special Interest Group Meeting Demonstration Theatre Presentations All of these proceedings can be found here:...

For those that attended the ESRI Developer Summit 2009, there was a good focus on ArcGIS Mobile. A few of the key features and enhancements that’s coming in ArcGIS 9.4 was showcased and demonstrated at the main plenary. The ArcGIS Mobile Team has summarised a few of the key themes that ArcGIS Mobile 9.4 will be centered around. Extending the reach of our application platform support by including a new Tablet application that has all of the capabilities of the Windows Mobile application but targets touch screen windows devices. Opening our field applications as a framework for developers to...

The ESRI Developer Summit 2009 kicked off yesterday in Palm Springs. Developers from all over the world started packing into the main plenary. There were a lot of developers! ArcGIS Product Manager, Jim Mckinney MC’d the main plenary. Jack Dangemond was there to give a brief talk as well. There are over 1100 developers attending this year’s ESRI Developer Summit 2009 along with over 200 development staff from ESRI. This year’s developer summit comes with a number of changes. ESRI has really listened to feedback and as such there are 30% more sessions and user presentations. It’s all...

The second and last day of the ESRI Business Partner Conference 2009 is now over. As the day overlapped with the ESRI Developer Summit 2009 presummit sessions, there was a big increase in attendees. There was some great ESRI Developer Summit 2009 presummit sessions to start of the day. An Introduction to ArcGIS Explorer 900 kicked off one of the morning presummit sessions. To save me typing up what was talked about and showcased, Dave Bouwman has already written up about this. Have a read here: http://blog.davebouwman.net/2009/… Switching back to the ESRI Business Partner Conference 2009, I...

Time goes quickly and it’s nearly upon us already. I’m just catching up on news and other happenings. I’m currently at my parents house in Auckland. Arrived this morning to spend the day with them. I’ll be catching up with the rest of our team shortly at Auckland Airport. We’re flying out to LA this evening and should arrive around 11am on Saturday (US). We’ll then be finding our way over to Palm Springs and should be there for Saturday afternoon. I am really looking forward to catching up with everyone! We have quite a few meetings planned but it’s going to be good to see everyone again....

The full agenda along with session times, information on each session, sponsor and exhibitor information as well as a conference map has been made available online. This comes as a convenient PDF that you can download and print off to carry along. You can find this here: http://downloads2.esri.com/edn/… I am already making my way to Palm Springs for the ESRI Business Partner Conference and ESRI Developer Summit 2009. I am currently in Auckland spending the day with the parents. Will be flying out to LA this evening. Right through I will be blogging about what’s going on. I’ll also be on...

The ESRI Developer Summit 2009 is only a few days away and we are already seeing some good material coming out! To add to this, the public beta for ArcGIS API For Microsoft Silverlight/WPF is now available. The ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight™/WPF™ enables you to create rich internet and desktop applications that utilize the powerful mapping, geocoding, and geoprocessing capabilities provided by ArcGIS Server and Microsoft Virtual Earth™ services. The API is built on the Microsoft Silverlight/WPF platform which is integrated with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer Express 2008. The...

The ESRI Developer Summit 2009 kicks off next week in Palm Springs. In preparation for this, the ArcGIS Server Development Team has make available the demonstrations that they will be presenting during the Developing Advanced Applications With The ArcGIS JavaScript API. These are the demos that we will be presenting during the ‘Developing Advanced Applications with the ArcGIS JavaScript API’ session at Developer Summit ’09. The demos include Dijits, Printing, API Usage, Custom functionality, Info Window Customization, etc. These demonstrations can be downloaded from the ESRI...

The ESRI Developer Summit is fast approaching and entries have been coming in for the ESRI Developer Summit 2009 Code Challenges. So far there has been some great entries which users and developers will be able to vote for soon. The prizes include: ArcGIS Server Web Mashup Code Challenge First Prize – $7,000 Second Prize – $3,000 ArcGIS Mobile Code Challenge First Prize – $4,000 Second Prize – $2,000 A reminder that all entries must be received no later than 5:00 PM  (PST) on Friday, March 6, 2009! We already have two entries from New Zealand....

A new press release has been published which talks about the new ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight. Information on the ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight was first spotted on the agenda list of the ESRI Developer Summit 2009. Since then ESRI has released more information here: http://mandown.co.nz/esri/… and also released a sneak peek here: http://mandown.co.nz/esri/… The beta release of the ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight will coincide with the 2009 ESRI Developer Summit in Palm Springs, California, to be held March 23-26. This new API allows application developers to integrate...