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Nick Landry
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ActiveNick's Big Bald Blog
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Fri, Apr 19 2013
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
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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Dara Monasch
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D-Coding
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Tue, Feb 12 2013
Preparations Approximately one day after I returned home from my inaugural tech conference, CodeMash (Sandusky, OH), my marketing department mentor let me know that I’d be shipping off again in a month(!). This time, I was headed to Dallas, TX for...
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By:
Nick Landry
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ActiveNick's Big Bald Blog
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Mon, Feb 11 2013
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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Dara Monasch
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D-Coding
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Tue, Feb 5 2013
Preparations As I mentioned briefly in my first post, I have the most amazing role here at Infragistics, where I have the opportunity to assist in various departments in a variety of ways, based on the company’s needs. I’m currently assisting...
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By:
Nick Landry
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ActiveNick's Big Bald Blog
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Tue, Dec 18 2012
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
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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By:
Nick Landry
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ActiveNick's Big Bald Blog
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Posted On:
Mon, Sep 10 2012
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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By:
Nick Landry
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ActiveNick's Big Bald Blog
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Posted On:
Tue, Jun 19 2012
POST UPDATE: I updated the details in this post to reflect the new public announcements regarding Windows Phone 8 on 6/20. Microsoft just raised the bar in the tablet market. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past 24 hours, you know...
Tags / WPF, XNA, Windows 7, Android, Mobile Development, Microsoft Surface, Gaming, Touch Computing, Windows Phone, Microsoft, Infragistics, iPhone, Visual Basic, Silverlight, iPad, Windows Phone SDK, Nokia, Lumia 800, Samsung, Apple, Xbox LIVE, Apollo, Event, GameDev, Windows RT, Metro, iOS, HTML5, Visual Studio, Javascript, HP, Win32, Paul Thurrott, OEM, C++, MacBook, WinRT, Kindle Fire, ARM, Dell, Tablet, Java, Netbook, Perl, Blackberry, F#, Lenovo, Ultrabook, Microsoft .NET, Toshiba, Direct3D, Ruby, Python, WinJS, Windows 8, C#, Haskell
Are you going to Microsoft Tech · Ed in Orlando next week? If so, make sure to look me up and say hello. I'm always looking forward to geeking out with other developers. Show me your mobile apps, ask me questions about Windows Phone development...
Tags / XNA, NetAdvantage, Data Visualization, Android, Mobile Development, Geospatial, Windows Phone, TechEd, Microsoft, Infragistics, Twitter, Conference, Event, iOS, jQuery Mobile
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By:
Nick Landry
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ActiveNick's Big Bald Blog
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Mon, May 14 2012
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
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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By:
Nick Landry
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ActiveNick's Big Bald Blog
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Posted On:
Tue, Apr 24 2012
Earlier in March I attended the Game Developers Conference (GDC) for the first time in four years. That week, I had the pleasure of connecting with Jerry Nixon , Microsoft Developer Evangelist in Colorado, who interviewed me for Bytes by MSDN . Join us...
Tags / Product Management, XNA, NetAdvantage, Data Visualization, Mobile Development, Gaming, Windows Phone, Jobs, Infragistics, iPhone, Free Tools, Windows Phone SDK, Apple App Store, Conference, Event, GameDev, iOS, Dragonvale, GDC, Backflip Studios, Bytes by MSDN, Kosmic Warz, Jerry Nixon
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By:
Nick Landry
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ActiveNick's Big Bald Blog
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Posted On:
Sat, Mar 31 2012
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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By:
Nick Landry
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ActiveNick's Big Bald Blog
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Posted On:
Thu, Mar 29 2012
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
