Well abstract submissions for the ESRI 2010 Developer Summit in Palm Springs, CA are now closed and community voting for what user presentations will appear on the program has begun.  Dave has already thrown up a blog post here, discussing what we're all planning on chatting about but I thought I'd reinforce that information with a quick note here.

Dave has proposed talks on:

• Using ArcGIS Server with Ruby on Rails - And why not?! All the kewl kids with their turtlenecks and soul patches are using Ruby and geo-geeks can to.   Dave will give us the rundown on BDD within the Rails framework and cook up some ArcGIS Server SOAP API calls.
• Secure Applications with ArcGIS Server - The result of a project we did awhile back using the JavaScript API building an app to comply with the security requirements of DHS, this presentation will deal with requests over SSL as well as token-based access to ArcGIS Server through a proxy.  Lots of technical goodness in this one...

I have proposed to collaborate with Mike Juniper, another developer in our shop, to talk about building web applications that target mobile devices (specifically iPhone and Android).  Our talk is titled "There's an App for That: Building iPhone/Android Applcations iwth OpenLayers and ArcGIS Server" and should turn out to be pretty interesting.  At present, very few websites (and even fewer mapping websites) pay attention to mobile device user agents when rendering pages for client consumption.  Did you know there's a gesture-enabled version of OpenLayers out there right now that can be used in building iPhone and Android specific web apps?  We'll leverage the OpenLayers client, mobile-specific CloudMade tiles, and ArcGIS Server to build a web app that targets your handset.  Specifically we'll build a location aware application that allows users to view and create feedback items pertaining to their current location.  If there's time we'll try to work in some location based searches, etc.

Dave also eluded to some other nice shiny bits we're going to try to work in to this presentation.  We're collaborating with another company and trying to develop a mapping app against their edge-cached, cloud front image service.  The service is access controlled and enables private distributions of map data.  How's that for a whole list of buzz words for ya?  Once we figure out what all that stuff means, we're going to write an app against it!

Why vote for our presentation?  Well you'll be able to bang away at our app from your Android device or iPhone and do your best to embarrass us in front of a room full of people.  As usual we'll share the source and give you a place to start.  Oh, and did I mention "edge-cached cloud front image service"...sweeeeeeet.

The community-submitted presentation abstracts for the Dev Summit are now posted on-line over here. It's your conference and ESRI is giving you the opportunity to choose the content.  Since these presentations are all recorded, you don’t have to be attending the Dev Summit to vote – just setup an account (free) and vote for what you want to see – either live or recorded.  Please note that unless you've visited the voting site previously, you'll need to establish a new account and login.  You don't use your ESRI ID if you already have one of those...registration is quick, easy, and non-invasive.