From the opening keynote

Sue and I are sitting sat in the opening keynote at the ESRI Developers Summit (EDS) this morning, and we aren’t the only ones.  There were well over 600 people in attendance including many ESRI employees .  A couple of other bloggers are in Palm Springs also and once they have posted I will link to them here.  Since I am doing did this live, it is more stream of conciousness than a true outline, but it give you an idea of the progression of the keynote.  I have to say it is a lot easier to blog about a tech even than an academic one. :-)  Overall, it was a good opening session. We will do quick overviews of the sessions we attend throughout the day.

Brian Goldin starting the keynote and giving an overview of the EDS and speaking of community and building the dev community.

Jack Dangermond is up now, he is speaking of ESRI’s goal of supporting developers.

Scott Moorehouse is coming up. His fluffy topics, as he called them:

• topology, networks
• geodatabases are transactional
• File Geodatabase model, terrain storage and change in history and archiving coming in 9.2
• Utilizing SQL Server Express for geodatabase
• incorporating SQL into geodatabase

• geoprocessing
• Arcgis is a development tool

• ArcGIS Desktop: use when generic interface is OK, if creating extrrensions, leverage functionality
• 9.2 improvements: temporal viz, cartography enhancements, geoprocessing,
• ArcGIS Engine: use when build simple, focused apps; build java desktop apps; you control interface
• 9,2 improvemts: simplifying experience; visual controls; developer commands; geoprocessing; visual studio integration; Eclipse integration for Java
• ArcGIS Server: geo-enabling SOA (Service oriented Architecture); web-based GIS;
• ArcIMS 9.2
• ArcWeb Services
• ESRI Mobile technologies:

Brian is bringing up developer leads

Jim McKenney – ArcGIS Desktop

• Michael Flaxman – ArcSketch (being released next week as free extension), quick sketch tool that allows for attribution, I will be downloading it…
• Jim: 89 OMDs and 2000 objects in 9.2
• He is brave and pulled up a live demo 🙂
• Someone else, though I didn’t catch a name
• showing new data loading interfaces for feature class

Euan Cameron: ArcGIS Engine

• Anne Frankland: overviewing some of the new enhancements to the engine
• another missed name: overviewing Java development tools including geoprocessing and model builder

Sod Menon: ArcGIS Server

• missed name: WebMap app, ArcGIS Server Site Builder including Visual Studio interaction
• Ishmael …: ArcGIS Explorer: impressive and can be built on by developers
• Ishmael: ArcPad and web services

David Maguire: ArcWeb Services

• ArcWeb Explorer

Brian is back to wrap up the keynote.