Back in Charlotte after another lively ESRI Developers Summit.  I went back and read my impressions from last year, and have to say that they were hit and miss.  You could replace last year’s impressions mentioning 9.4, with some mentioning 10 (the new and improved 9.4) and it would at least partially apply.  New stuff this year to get your inner (and outer) GIS nerd in a frenzy are:

I will say I was surprised at the number of Flex vs Silverlight developers this year.  Last year, I wrote about Silverlight being the Queen of the Ball, with most developers I knew going to all SL sessions.  The buzz was much bigger about SL then, which was a 180 turn-around this year.  All of the Flex sessions seemed to be packed, and the buzz was Flex-heavy.  I didn’t actually go to any SL sessions, but I heard more than one developer say that the sessions seemed less full than last year.  Maybe it’s an alternating year thing or something.  Or maybe the release of Flex 4 on the Monday of the summit had something to do with it.  If you are a Sliverlight developer, please bear in mind that I don’t really care if Flex or SL has more “buzz” or attendees, but I just find the dynamic between the two camps and their respective APIs mildly interesting.

For more info, you can go to ESRI’s Dev Summit site and watch plenary videos as well as all tech sessions.    The user sessions aren’t posted yet, but they’re coming.  If I think about it, I’ll post a link to mine when it comes online.  Oh, and if you checkout the Twitter #devsummit tag, you’ll see a mountain of info and links for your perusing pleasure.

It was a great conference, as always.  Already looking forward to next year.