2008 ESRI Developer Summit
December 3, 2007 33 Comments
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 quite detailed (and many are of no value beyond marketing).
So who is planning on going to the Dev Summit next year? Is there anything that ESRI has released/done in 2007 that makes you excited or are you going to put your conference budget somewhere else?
The ESRI Developer Summit – With new Agile!

I’m still interested in this .NET ADF. We just have not been able to implement it in a way we’d like. I’m hopeful sitting down with the .NET folks will help me get this stuff figured out.
I didn’t see if you were planning on going James?
I think he said he was going here:
ESRI hires new Director of Product Management
I know for a fact that he isn’t going….
ESRI’s Bitch: How do you know that I’m not going? If your IP address is correct, you shouldn’t have a clue.
Are you going James?
That is quite different than saying you know for a “fact” that I’m not going isn’t it?
I just want you to tell folks you aren’t going.
will attendance drop if James doesn’t go? Now that’s what inquiring minds want to know.
Don’t you dare call out Agile James. They are like a cult…..
I’m going if only to hang out with folks at night. That was very fun, much better than the UC.
I’m still somewhat interested in going, but I have to admit I just don’t see how applicable this will be. We’ve pretty much dropped ESRI server and the ArcObjects stuff was pretty weak.
Maybe if they promote the REST API before hand I’ll be interested, but I just don’t see that happening. James seems to have moved on from ESRI Server and I just don’t see how they’ll get the word out beyond their horrible blogs.
That a boy James, walk away from ESRI.
Yes, REST API. That is what I’m VERY interested in. James, what do you know about the REST API? I haven’t seem much posting on it from you.
@Craig: I know very little about the REST API. ESRI hasn’t really posted much about it. I really don’t have any information about it that you don’t.
Yea, what did happen to that REST API. That seemed like the answer to everyone’s problems with the WebADF. Did they drop the REST API?
Are you talking about this?
http://www2.arcwebservices.com/v2006/develop/rest.jsp
No, they mentioned a REST API for ArcGIS Server at the 2007 UC. That is ArcWeb….
There seems to be much less interest in the Dev Summit this year from folks I know. Maybe it is related to James not posting about it weekly (just kidding James
).
EDN is the problem. That website has just drifted to the point I really don’t use it that much (other than bookmarking the Documentation). EDN is really just about the license, not the website.
I agree, REST might be worth attending if I learn more about it. Right now I don’t see much need to jump in. I mean does anything sound less intersting than this DevSummit session?
Hey wait a minute. James didn’t answer if he was going.
I didn’t answer because I still haven’t made up my mind.
I’m going! Any chance you are going as well?
I’m going. James, if you show up, I’ll buy you a beer.
I’m going, but I’ll be honest. It isn’t for the sessions, but the fact my company will pay for me to spend a week in Palm Springs in March.
I’m not going, but if I was I’d like to see some advanced examples of programming for ArcGIS Explorer (is that the right name?). When they made a freely accessible download, I took another look at it and it is much improved in terms of speed and stability. AG Explorer could have strong merits as a delivery platform, although I don’t like it’s chances matched up against Google Earth and MSVE.
I’d be interested in information related to the .NET ADF, although it’s looking more and more like ArcGIS Server is a non-starter in my organization.
I guess the dev summit will be all about 9.3 …
I’m planning on being there, and hope to take many members of my team.
For me, I’m interested in the Javascript client, and other non-ADF ways of working with Server
As for the “Agile Cult” – it’s true and we’ll be brining robes for anyone who wants to join
I’ll have my robes dry-cleaned first. I’m with you Dave, I wouldn’t do business any other way at this point.
I’ll be attending as well. I agree with Dave, the non ADF services that you can build with AGS and the REST api are very interesting. I think many of these types of services will be built using SqlServer 08 (for .Net devs anyway) but there is certainly functionality that requires AGS.
cheers
brian
OK, Brian Flood will be there. Dave Bouwman will be there. Bill Dollins will be there. That is almost all big bloggers who use ESRI. Something tells me James isn’t going to miss it so you can probably count him in.
Wow, I have been so out of the loop for a while. Just getting back into things.
Yes I will be at the Developer Sumit along with my team.
@J –
Good to hear that you’re going to be coming – always nice to talk with an ArcGIS Server kung-fu master who’s got real world consulting experience!
Cheers,
Dave
@Dave,
Yes it will be good to catch up with you and Brian and hopefully James is coming. I’m pretty sure he will
All looking forward to it!