MVC Data Access…Decisions, Decisions

I was about half way through writing up a long winded post about choosing a data access provider for use in ASP.NET MVC projects, when somebody tweeted the URL to this excellent post.  I’d fielded several “what should I use” questions at the dev summit last week and was nearly done with my promised response [...]

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Tech Help, Social Networks, and the Geoweb: Dev Summit Parting Shots

The ESRI Dev Summit is something I look forward to each year and 2009 did not disappoint.  Another gratuitous shout out to Jim Barry, the entire EDN team, and ESRI staffers who turned out this year and extended hospitality, knowledge, and new shiny bits to hordes of geo-geeks in spades once again.  While others will [...]

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Tech Talk: RESTful Apps and Services with ASP.NET MVC

Yesterday I gave a presentation at the 2009 ESRI Developer Summit on RESTful apps and services using ASP.NET MVC. As this is the first year for user sessions, I was completely surprised at the turn out. We filled the theater and spilled out in the ESRI showcase area. Lots of questions and [...]

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Tech Talk: Pronouns, perspective, and your audience

In preparation for our user presentations at the 2009 ESRI Developer Summit next week, Dave B and I spent some time last week doing dry runs of our presentations,  making some slide and content changes, etc. in an effort to polish our presentation zen a little bit.  When you’ve given as many presentations and Dave [...]

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ESRI Dev Summit Presentation and Party

The 2009 ESRI Developer Summit is fast approaching and this year, one of the new “features” at the conference is the allocation of space and time slots for the user/developer community to speak on technical topics of interest to them.  I was fortunate enough to land one of the time slots to talk about RESTful [...]

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