Tuesday, January 02, 2007
ESRI Dev Summit Quote...
Posted on Tuesday, January 02, 2007 3:50:23 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)  Comments [3] | 
Categories: Dev Summit | ESRI
Despite my sometimes pointed postings regarding ESRI, here's a little something from the DevSummit site...




And I totally stand by this - the Developer Summit was the best ESRI event that I have ever been to. Why?  Because it was directed at developers. Just developers. Despite the "geoprocessing will save the world" mantra (which even some ESRI people thought was wack), it was an excellent look at what was going on with 9.2, and some very good sessions on developing cross product (ArcMap/ArcEngine/ArcGIS Server) components. I hope that the success of last year does not lead to dumbing down of the content to attract a wider audience. (hope hope hope)

Although the listing of talks is not up yet - looks like a placeholder page - I'm very excited to attend this year. That said, I'd like to see some user papers/sessions so we get some "real-world" insights.

And if they do have the "Birds of a Feather" sessions (need a new name!) I'm going to propose a few - Unit Testing and Code Generation come to mind.

See you in Palm Springs!
Tuesday, January 02, 2007 4:22:26 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
I guess we can trust you on that quote then huh? ;)
James Fee
Tuesday, January 02, 2007 8:35:39 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
2006 Dev Summit was indeed more useful that my previous UC visit. So far I feel confident on the technical aspect being preserved this year too. Along with Unit Testing, a geodatabase ORM session would be very nice.
Amit Nalla
Wednesday, January 03, 2007 9:38:04 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
Gosh, it only took esri 10 years to figure out a venue that developers could get something out of... I take your word for it that the summit is worthwhile, but it's hard to get over the neglect.
Shane Buscher
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