With all the talk about big data, Internet of things, and the value that can be derived from the analysis of all of that information, no one seems to talk about how we collect it. There are a number of traditional ways.
Is it a chore to get your code deployed? Are you manually deploying updates to production? Find out how automated deployment tools like Octopus Deploy can make your deployments repeatable, reliable, and less prone to human error.
You have been hearing all the buzz around micro services come and find out what all the hype is about. This session will provide an introduction to micro services with a focus on the Service Fabric platform from Microsoft.
Note the date is the 9th and not the first Wednesday, the 3rd!!!!
According to some estimates, there will be 50 Billion connected devices by 2020. The release of Windows 10 core IoT has enabled the creation of the next generation of intelligent devices.
Web development was a different game back in the early 2000s. Early versions of ASP.NET were aimed at Microsoft's existing customer base, and even tried to hide the nature of the web from developers who weren't ready for it. The platform has evolved steadily since the .
Windows 10 Core supports development of apps, using XAML and C#, on the Raspberry Pi 2. In this session we will walk through everything necessary to build a BBQ temperature monitor using Windows 10 and a Raspberry Pi 2.
The world operates in functions. Everyday we perform numerous small tasks that lead to some kind of output. That output is then used as an input to another task to produce a different output.
For the decade since it was released, MSBuild has been the standard way to build .NET applications, due in large part to its use in Visual Studio. But while it is a reliable and even extensible tool, configuring anything more than trivial tasks in XML is often a challenging experience.
“IT by itself provides no value”. That’s a pretty bold statement and yet that’s where the winds of business are blowing. As a developer or IT professional you spend time understanding new languages and frameworks, but to deepen and broaden your impact, I recommend taking strides in understanding the business.
Using a combination of precognition and blatant disregard for architectural purity, we'll build an MVP in 90 minutes (give or take).
Just as most of the universe is thought to be made up of "dark matter" which we can not directly observe, most software is made of of missing models and lurking business requirements.
We are opening up this meeting for lightning talks. Instead of one interesting person talking, we are going to have a number of interesting people talking. Each talk will be 5-15 minutes long and can theoretically be on anything that might interest the group.
UPDATE: Slides from the meeting
“A 12yo presenting App Dev at TED? An 11yo presenting Spark to a tech conference? That’s crazy; my kids just want to play games!”
Building cross-platform native UIs with one shared codebase was once just a dream. With Xamarin.Forms, this dream is now a reality. Xamarin.Forms allows you to build a native UI for three platforms with one shared C# codebase.
Near Field Communication is already here. You might even be using and did not even know. In this talk, we'll be learning what NFC is and how to use it. This talk will include a demo for using NFC on Windows Phone and how to use it cross-platform.
Lots of programmers use Stack Overflow, but not many know how the site really works or how the dev team behind it operates. In this talk, Ben explains how things are built, what problems they face, and how they do things at Stack Exchange.
Entity Framework makes it super easy to write data access code, but it can be a real challenge to write code that is testable and maintainable.
Officially launched in 2013, Visual Studio Online is, in Microsoft's own words, "a collection of developer services that runs on Windows Azure and extends the developer experience in the cloud." That sounds awesome but what does it actually mean? Is it XBOX Live for Visual Studio? Not quite.