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 architecture patterns and Microsoft ASP.NET MVC.  It looks like I'll be the guinea pig for the user presentations as I'm up as the very first one, speaking Tuesday, March 24 from 1:00-1:45pm.  Hopefully everyone can fight off the post-lunch food coma and stay awake for it. The original abstract for the talk is as follows:

The presentation will leverage a suite of tools in the “http goodness” toolbox to demonstrate the implementation of RESTful applications and services utilizing ESRIs REST and JavaScript APIs in association with Microsoft’s ASP.NET MVC framework. Caching, linking, bookmarking, and friendly URLs are all nice features of the RESTful architecture, but consider as a developer the impact on your next geoweb app of having absolute control over addressable resources (data views and maps), guaranteed code quality governed by TDD principals, the opportunity for pluggable backend services in a hybrid solution, and the opening of doors for software and data interoperability over http! The presenter will focus on real world examples from recent development initiatives to illustrate the potential impact of RESTful services and applications in the geospatial enterprise. Architectural patterns, code examples, real world systems demos, and other shiny bits will all be in attendance.

Dave Bouwman will be speaking in one of the main technical sessions with Al Laframboise of ESRI and has also landed a user presentation slot.  For all the details on the DTS presence at the Dev Summit, check out this link. And while Dave posted on it over here, it bears repeating that DTSAgile will be sponsoring a festivus for the geo community during the conference on Monday night.  Head on over to our newly revamped website for the invitation and RSVP information.  We'll shoot out an email with directions to the gig at the end of this week. Hope to see you at the conference...