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I spent a few days this week at Xamarin EVOLVE , hanging out with the Xamarin folks, the mobile cross-platform dev community, talking to attendees at our booth and speaking about mobile geospatial development. It was definitely a great event and Xamarin...
Tags / Android, Bing Maps, Mobile Development, Geospatial, Windows Phone, Enterprise Mobility, Infragistics, Community, iPhone, iPad, Free Tools, Windows Phone SDK, Apple App Store, Google Maps, Conference, Event, Slides, CodepaLOUsa, Mobile Ecosystem, iOS, Brent Schooley, OpenStreetMap, Json.net, Xcode, Objective C, Microsoft .NET, C#, XAML, Maps, GIS, Mapping, NucliOS, Xamarin, MonoTouch, Demos, Samples, Esri, ArcGIS, Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin Studio, Xamarin.Android, Geocoding, Xamarin EVOLVE, Nominatim, Google Play Services, MapQuest
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I’m exhausted… I’m still recovering from my days in Vegas last week… You might say “ What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas ”, but then again you’d get the wrong idea about why I’m exhausted. It probably has something to do with presenting FIVE breakout...
Tags / Android, Mobile Development, Touch Computing, Windows Phone, Enterprise Mobility, Community, iPhone, DevTeach, iPad, Azure, Conference, Event, CodepaLOUsa, Notifications, Mobile Ecosystem, iOS, Objective C, Microsoft .NET, Windows 8, C#, Prairie DevCon, VSLive, XAML, Modern Apps Live!, Push Notifications, Windows Azure Mobile Services, Modern Apps, Speech, Windows Azure, Text-to-Speech, Voice Recognition, Background Agents, Speech Synthesis, Multitasking
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I just came back from Dallas where I spent a few days at the Dallas Day of .NET. I’d like to thank the attendees who attended my two talks on iOS Development and Designing Data Visualizations. It’s always great to hang out with the developer community...
Tags / WPF, Data Visualization, Mobile Development, Geospatial, Location Intelligence, Enterprise Mobility, Infragistics, Community, iPhone, Twitter, iPad, Apple, Conference, Event, Slides, Mobile Ecosystem, Mac, iOS, Visual Studio, Design, Xcode, Objective C, Microsoft .NET, C#, Maps, GIS, Mapping, NucliOS, Demos, Dallas Day of .NET, Dashboard
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Every January 1st for the past 9 years, I’ve been getting an email from Microsoft titled “ Congratulations 20YY Microsoft MVP! ” ( enum YY {Max = 13, Min = 05}; ) where I have the honor and privilege of being re-awarded as Microsoft MVP for Windows Phone...
Tags / WPF, Product Management, XNA, DevConnections, NetAdvantage, Kinect, Data Visualization, User Groups, Android, Mobile Development, Microsoft Surface, MVP, Touch Computing, Windows Phone, World of Warcraft, Code Camps, Star Trek, TechEd, Enterprise Mobility, Microsoft, Infragistics, Community, iPhone, Infusion, Silverlight, iPad, Google, Nokia, Dropbox, SkyDrive, Richard Campbell, Carl Franklin, The Tablet Show, Samsung, Apple, Conference, CodepaLOUsa, Deeper in .NET, Cloud, Windows RT, Mobile Ecosystem, Xbox 360, Blu-Ray, iOS, RIM, GDC, Bytes by MSDN, Jerry Nixon, TechBash, Brent Schooley, Ambrose Little, jQuery Mobile, MacBook, WinRT, Kindle Fire, Tablet, Blackberry, WinJS, Windows 8, MobileAdvantage, HDC, Prairie DevCon, VSLive, XAML, iguanaUI, NucliOS, igniteUI, Research in Motion, Microsoft Office, Windows Store, Amazon Kindle, Touch Cover, Blackberry PlayBook, Retina Display, Lumia 820, From iPad to Surface, Live360, AJI Report, Lumia 920, NFC, Project Titan, Stir Trek, That Conference
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I had the pleasure of speaking at the Visual Studio Live! conference last week, located in the Royal Pacific Resort at Universal Orlando and part of the Live! 360 overarching conference. It was a fun week, I got a chance to meet many great attendees and...
Tags / WPF, Data Visualization, Mobile Development, Geospatial, Windows Phone, Location Intelligence, Enterprise Mobility, Infragistics, Community, iPhone, Silverlight, iPad, Windows Phone SDK, Nokia, Apple, Conference, Event, Slides, Mobile Ecosystem, Mac, iOS, Jerry Nixon, Motion Framework, HTML5, Reporting, Visual Studio, Design, Xcode, Objective C, WWDC, Microsoft .NET, C#, VSLive, XAML, Maps, GIS, Mapping, NucliOS, Windows Phone Store, Jeff Blankenburg, Demos, Samples, Live360, DVLUP
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I have a confession to make. Even though I am Canadian, until this summer, I had never travelled west of Ontario in my home country. Never. It’s kind of shameful. I’ve travelled all over the US and the world, yet I had never set foot in the four provinces...
Tags / NetAdvantage, Android, Mobile Development, Geospatial, Enterprise Mobility, Infragistics, Community, iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone SDK, Apple App Store, Conference, Event, Slides, Mobile Ecosystem, iOS, HTML5, jQuery Mobile, jQuery, Xcode, Objective C, Microsoft .NET, C#, MobileAdvantage, Prairie DevCon, Maps, GIS, Saskatchewan, Regina, iguanaUI, NucliOS, Canada, Windows Phone Store, igniteUI
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I want to express a warm thank you to all the HDC attendees who came to my talk last Thursday , titled “ iOS Development Survival Guide for the .NET Guy ”. We had a big crowd in the room and I had a lot of fun delivering this talk. This was actually quite...
Tags / NetAdvantage, User Groups, Mobile Development, Windows Phone, Enterprise Mobility, Microsoft, Infragistics, Community, iPhone, iPad, Apple, Conference, Event, Slides, Mac, iOS, Visual Studio, Xcode, Objective C, Microsoft .NET, Windows 8, C#, HDC, Prairie DevCon, VSLive
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Another Saturday spent geeking out, another code camp under my belt. Philly Code Camp was a lot of fun, with hundreds of developers from the NJ/PA community converging on the Penn State campus in Abington, PA to hear dozens of cool software development...
Tags / Data Visualization, Bing Maps, Mobile Development, Geospatial, Windows Phone, Code Camps, Location Intelligence, Community, Nuget, Event, Slides, Metro, Brent Schooley, Json.net, Design
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Thank you to everyone who attended my TechBash sessions last Saturday. It’s never easy to give up half a weekend to go learn cool new developer stuff and hopefully it was all worth it for you. As mentioned, all my presentation slides and demos are...
Tags / XNA, Mobile Development, Windows Phone, Enterprise Mobility, Microsoft, Community, Azure, Free Tools, Nuget, Windows Phone SDK, Conference, Event, Slides, GameDev, Windows Azure Toolkit, WATWP, Azure Storage, Notifications, Cloud, TechBash, Brent Schooley, Ambrose Little
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Thank you to everyone who attended my #DiDN12 session on this cloudy (pun intended) Saturday morning. I greatly appreciate everyone’s dedication to get up early and give up half of their weekend to come listen to the bald French-Canadian yap about...
Tags / Mobile Development, Windows Phone, Enterprise Mobility, Microsoft, Community, Azure, Free Tools, Nuget, Windows Phone SDK, Conference, Event, GameDev, Windows Azure Toolkit, Deeper in .NET, WATWP, Azure Storage, Notifications, Cloud
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Sorry for the delay folks. If you attended my talk at CodepaLOUsa a couple weeks back in Louisville, KY, here are the presentation materials I promised you . In this ZIP file you’ll find my presentation deck, as well as the sample Windows Phone...
Tags / XNA, Mobile Development, Windows Phone, Community, Free Tools, Windows Phone SDK, Conference, Event, Slides, GameDev, CodepaLOUsa
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Say what you will about Windows Phone vs iOS or Android, one thing most experts agree with is Microsoft knows how to make really good development tools. Windows Phone is no exception. The Windows Phone SDK, combined with Visual Studio 2010, provide us...
Tags / XNA, NetAdvantage, Mobile Development, Windows Phone, Enterprise Mobility, Microsoft, Infragistics, Community, Silverlight, Mango, Azure, Silverlight Toolkit, MVVM, Free Tools, Nuget, SQL Server CE, Windows Phone SDK, Open Source, Coding4Fun, CodePlex
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With this inaugural post in what is to be considered the revival of my old blog under the same name, I have the distinct pleasure to announce: I have joined the Infragistics family last month After spending the last 16 of my 20 years of professional experience...
Tags / WPF, Product Management, XNA, Windows 7, DevConnections, NetAdvantage, Kinect, Wall Street, LinkedIn, Data Visualization, User Groups, Android, Geek Life, Webinars, Bing Maps, Mobile Development, Microsoft Surface, MVP, Gaming, Touch Computing, Geospatial, Windows Phone, World of Warcraft, Code Camps, Star Wars, Star Trek, Jobs, Location Intelligence, TechEd, Podcasts, NUI, Enterprise Mobility, Microsoft, Infragistics, Community, iPhone, Infusion, Twitter, DevTeach, Visual Basic, Silverlight
