Client-side MVC Architecture

I am excited to be presenting tomorrow night at the WNC .NET Developers Guild.

Here is a summary of what we will be presenting:

With social sites becoming so popular like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc, we are reaching a point where consumers are demanding applications and systems that can deliver real-time experiences.  We will look at the landscape and discuss some of the most popular frameworks currently available.  We will also look at the question of ubiquity and how we can leverage good architecture and design to support such models.  Finally, we will take a look a one such architectural approach and look at the pros and cons with such an architecture.

Hope to see all of you there!

Update:  Here is a link to my slide presentation.

Building Immersive Windows 8 Apps

I am excited to be presenting with my friend Brian Hitney tomorrow night at the Charlotte Enterprise Developers Guild.

Here is a summary of what we will be presenting:

Windows 8 opened up a whole new set of possibilities for application developers in terms of how their applications can interact with the underlying operating system, with other applications as well as with the users. Specifically this includes the ability to utilize Contracts (search, share, settings) to give the impression your application is ‘one’ with the operating system as well as creating live Tiles to allow your application to communicate with the users even when the application is not running. In this session we will take a look at how you can use Contracts and Tiles to provide your application a great user experience and make your users feel truly engaged.

Hope to see all of you there!

Charlotte Game Dev

I had a great time presenting at our first meeting!  We had a good turnout and it is going to be a lot of fun continuing to work with the group.  I appreciate all the enthusiasm and support from the members and look forward to some great meetings.

Here is a link to the applications that I demoed during the presentation:  games

Look forward to seeing you at the next meeting!

You can sign up for the group here.

January Speaking

I am happy to announce that I am going to be speaking at the Columbia Code Camp in Columbia, SC on January 19, 2013.

Here is my session topic and summary:

Title:  Designing Windows Store Apps

Description:  Windows 8 is a new Windows experience. Through the bold use of color, typography, and motion, Microsoft’s design style brings a fresh new approach to the user experience. In this talk, you’ll learn about the Microsoft design principles and how to apply these principles when building your own apps.

I will also be speaking at the Triad Developers Guild on January 24, 2013.

Here is my topic and summary:

Title:  Developing for Mobility with an emphasis on Reach

Description:  In this session we will discuss this techniques to help you build rich mobile applications and target multiple platforms.  We will discuss the various options there exists for developing platform independent applications and the limitations for each.  Finally, we will take a simple application and walk through the steps to get your application ready using PhoneGap.  We will also discuss key architectural decisions to help ensure your design and structure of your application is best suited for cross-platform dissemination.  We will look at the following technologies: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Web API.  We will target the following platforms:  Windows 8, Android, Web

Look forward to seeing you there!

 

7 tips to Make building Win 8 apps in HTML/Javascript a Breeze

Looking forward to speaking today at the RDU CodeCamp!

Here are the slides for my presentation.

See you there…

7 tips to Make building Win 8 apps in HTML/Javascript a Breeze

I am excited to be speaking at the RDU Codecamp event this coming November 10, 2012!

Here is my presentation summary:

Windows 8 development is still fairly new to the scene and sometimes it can be frustrating when you run into an issue that seems like you are doing everything right only to find out that there is this one thing you must do to get your code working.  Come out to this session and we will walk you through some gems discovered while building Windows 8 applications in HTML and hopefully you won’t need to run into the same pitfalls.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Build Your Own Dashboard

I had a great time presenting on Build Your Own Dashboards at the SQL Saturday #174 Charlotte BI Edition.  Thank you to everyone who came to my session and participated in my talk.

Here is a link to the sample dashboard site I presented on:

Dashboards

Be advised that this site and the sample code is only optimized for IE 9.  You need to provide CSS3 vendor specific entries for WebKit and Mozilla if you want this to work perfectly in Chrome, Safari, and Firefox.

Here are the slides and sample code:

Slides and Sample code

Thanks again for the opportunity…

Windows 8 DevCamp – Reloaded

Had a great time presenting at Microsoft this morning!

As promised here are the slides and sample code from this morning’s event.

Hope you enjoy and thanks for coming out!

Windows 8 DevCamp – Reloaded

Sharing, Settings, and Roaming

By popular demand, we’re continuing the Windows 8 DevCamp series! We want to make sure your app is ready for primetime, so at each DevCamp, we’ll dive into a specific feature and then go hands on with your app, or using our reference app.

Join us Friday, October 12th, from 9:00 AM to 1:30 PM in the Mt. Kilimanjaro/Mt. Everest rooms of the Charlotte Microsoft Campus. By popular demand, we’re continuing the Windows 8 Developer Camp series! We want to make sure your app is ready for primetime, so at each DevCamp, we’ll dive into a specific feature and then go hands on with your app or use our reference app.

In this week’s DevCamp, we’ll dive into Sharing, Settings, and Roaming. We will also cover some tips and tricks for developing Windows 8 applications using HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. Finally, we’ll also spend a few hours going hands on to ensure the best experience for your app!

Hope to see you there…

Windows 8 DevCamp – Reloaded

I am very excited to announce our next Windows 8 DevCamp series! I will be speaking with Brian Hitney.

Join us this Friday, Oct 5th, from 9am – 1:30pm

Here is a summary of our event:

By popular demand, we’re continuing the Windows 8 DevCamp series! We want to make sure your app is ready for primetime, so at each DevCamp, we’ll dive into a specific feature and then go hands on with your app, or using our reference app.

In this DevCamp, we’ll dive into Tiles and Notifications using our Contoso Cookbook reference app. Live tiles are essential to adding an interactive experience to your application, and we’ll show you how to update live tiles either through a local background task, through the application itself, or have Windows 8 poll a service to update its content. We’ll also show how to leverage the Microsoft Push Notification service to push notifications down to users. Applications can also create secondary tiles that allow you to deep link to specific content or pages within your app. We’ll also spend a few hours going hands on to ensure the best experience for your app!

You can registere here. Hope to see you there….