Made if back from Palm Springs just in time for a big old Front Range
snow storm. Right now its dumping in Fort Collins. Other bloggers have
already posted great information from the second day, so I’ll not
re-hash that – just link over there – James Fee, Rob Elkin, Cory Eicher.
his team for making all our lives easier (when it’s released). We’re
already scheming up projects where we can use the ADF. Who says ESRI is
not raising the bar? For those not in the beta program, and who did not
attend, just wait! Web mapping elements are no-longer second class
citizens grafted into otherwise industry standard web-sites. Expect
seamless integration of mapping into any .NET 2.0 web site when this
rolls out. Ideas for next time: Software Enginnering Practices
As
someone noted in the closing session - some sessions where ESRI talks
about their best practices re: software engineering process. Many GIS
developers do not come from a Computer Science background, and may not
work in shops where source control is taken for granted, and having
good unit tests is as important as having good code. Real-World Applications
Sessions
which show real-world applications – co-presented by ESRI and the
developers would be very cool. This would inject the dirty reality in
which all problems can not be solved at the coarse-grained level. Fine-Grained Love
And
- as echoed by many attendees – we love our fine-grained objects. So
sessions on that would also be great. Just to kick a topic out there -
“Best Practices for working with IGeometry”. This would be particularly
good because there are so many ways to interact with the low-level
geometry objects, and some are much faster than others (geometry bags
vs iterating over a collection). Add into that the “zen” of dealing
with precision differences between the map frame and a feature class,
and how that effects operations, and you’d have a weighty 75 minutes of
fine-grained love. Back to reality and some non-ADF ArcGIS Server work.
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