Dev Summit REST and MVC Presentation + Audio

Just got a tweet from Dave Cardella at ESRI that my presentation from the 2009 ESRI Developer Summit, “Building RESTful Apps and Services with ASP.NET MVC” is now up on the ESRI Media Gallery.  The presentation includes the slide deck (recording started late so it’s missing the title slide) as well as audio.  Many thanks [...]

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Expanding your RESTful architecture with ArcGIS Server

Author’s Note: After I originally posted this write up, I got a good comment from Sean Gillies (see comments to this post) with a couple important notes in it.  First, I let SOAP and WS-* terminology bleed into my discussion of REST when I referred to a “REST endpoint”.  Once it’s RESTful, it’s a resource, [...]

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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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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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MOSS 2007, ArcGIS Server REST smackdown

Recently, we’ve seen an uptick in demand in a couple of our corporate office sites with clients looking for MOSS/ArcGIS or MOSS/VE integration to provide spatial context for their corporate portal content for a variety of markets.  Some time ago the company rolled up a product called Constellation that integrated ArcGIS Server with MOSS and now our Houston [...]

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IPictureMarkerSymbols and IPictureDisp fun

I’ve been converting some GDI+ rendering code to use ESRI Graphics Layers…you know: IElement, ISymbol and all the usual suspects. The application environment I’ve been working in is a distributed app with many different clients and prior to my arrival on the project the decision was made that all custom symbologies would be serialized [...]

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ESRI Dev Summit Podcast is up

The Podcast that Brady and I did at the 2008 ESRI Dev Summit has been posted online for posterity.  It’s posted on ESRI’s Speaker Series page here under the ‘Interviews with ESRI Business Partner’s Category’.
Here’s a link directly to the MP3 file.
The chat covers the obligatory “what we do” marketing speak up front and then we chat [...]

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Podcast on the docket for tomorrow…

Spending some time this evening making some notes and preparing my thoughts for a podcast that Brady and I will be giving tomorrow.  We’re going to be speaking with the ESRI folks about some of the work we’ve been doing with their technology.  At this point, we’re planning on highlighting a couple of the more interesting [...]

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First day impressions…quite REST-ful

Excellent first day at the ESRI Dev Summit.  The big story from my persepective was a pair of sessions summarizing the REST and JavaScript APIs being released at 9.3.  Dave has already provided a pretty good summary of the plenary, REST, and JavaScript API stuff over here so I won’t reiterate or reinvent the wheel. Suffice [...]

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ESRI dynamic display…some limitations

Recently I was working on a portion of a large ArcEngine development project in which we had requirements to draw a large number of point features in the map at changeable time intervals as short as ½ second in such a way as to avoid the map flashing or blinking at the user.  A brief [...]

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