I have now just finished packing my suitcase and I am all geared up for the dev summit next week in Palm Springs. I am really looking forward to it since I have been really busy the last few months building a big ArcGIS Server Portal for a client. We released it on Wednesday so now it is all up and running. It will be nice with a few weeks break after months of really hard work.

Since British Airways cabin crew decided to start their strike tomorrow I had to reschedule my flight so now I am off to Las Vegas instead of LA. I will stay there for a night before heading towards Palm Springs on Sunday. We might stop at Lake Havasu on the way since I really like that place!

I have prepared my laptop with various geeky stuff so that I can use the time on the flight to do something useful. I have promised one of my mates (who is a designer) to do some Silverlight stuff for him. It will be quite interesting and a nice break from all the webadf stuff I have done lately. And the best part is that I can do it all in Silverlight 4 which is good (release next month!)!

The developer summit this year will hopefully be really good since ArcGIS 10 is due this year. I am part of the beta programme so I have been testing both the first and the second beta but it will be interesting to see what else ESRI will show us. I also hope that ESRI will have some nice surprises just like Microsoft usually have. The biggie last year was the Silverlight API (even though it wasn't really a surprise)!

There will also be a lot more user presentations this year which is good. My session about tips and trix in Visual Studio was voted through but I had to turn it down due to lack of time and that my colleague couldn't go this year.

Links:
Developer summit website
Agenda at a Glance
Session search (including user presentations)
David Chappell – Keynote preview
Devsummit blog

Don't forget twitter: @devsummit