The ESRI Developer Summit is over, and I had quite a blast. We got tons of great feedback and tough questions from all the developers attending. Thank you for that! We also had some well-attended sessions on Windows Phone, Silverlight and WPF. When these recordings goes live, I’ll update this blog-post.

For the first time, I even got to go on stage during plenary and make a fool of myself. You might already have read about my ventures into programming with a Kinect, but I got to show a far more polished version during the plenary session, and luckily everything worked out great. This version (although not demoed due to time constraints) actually supports multiple users interacting with the map at the same time (at one point we had 4 different people drawing on the map all simultaneously). For those interested, this was based on OpenNI drivers and the ArcGIS API for WPF, which is a different approach than I originally blogged about. Here’s a recording of my 2 minutes of “fame” :

I have to admit I was a little nervous this would break down during the demo, since this was all based on stuff that wasn’t even in beta software yet. We later had it running at our showcase area 24/7 and I didn’t have to restart the app for almost 3 days running with lots of users playing with it, so perhaps it was running more solid than I had feared - So go play with those OpenNI drivers! They might be called “unstable” but I found them to be very stable.

My little A-to-B app also go a nice mention during the plenary. I wrote this to learn some more phone application practices, exercise the phone API we’ve been working on for a while and simply to have some coding fun. If you have a Windows Phone 7, go download it now, and if not, here’s Dave giving a quick tour of the app.

Thank you to every who attended and especially those who gave us feedback.