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ESRI Dev Summit 2008 Roundup

posted by lxnyce on Saturday March 22, @09:49AM        Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the what's-the-real-deal dept.

There has been a lot of news this week about the recent events at the ESRI developer summit. I have composed those into one story for your reading pleasure.

Summit Reflections - Another overview of the summit
Security In ArcGIS - Discusses the changed security model.
Mobile SDK - Programming And Design Patterns For The ArcGIS Mobile SDK
API Discussion - Discusses REST, Javascript, map-cache and Geodatabase.
FLEX API - Discusses the FLEX API
ArcWeb Services - Talks about discontinued ArcWeb Services
Using REST API - Discusses using the REST API
ArcGIS Server Code Challenge Winner - See the $15G winner
Fortran API - Discusses lack of Fortran API.

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