Tag: Events

CodeMash 2020 This Week!

This week I’ll be at CodeMash – an amazing developer event at the Kalahari Resort in Ohio. CodeMash holds a special place in my heart; It’s the first developer conference I ever attended, the first I ever sponsored, and now I have the honor of being a speaker!

This year, I’ll be talking more about Kotlin for C# developers, and you can catch the session at 9:15 am on Thursday.

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If you’re looking to expand your language portfolio with something familiar yet new as a C# developer, you’re going to love this session. Learn about the Kotlin programming language side-by-side with C#, compare and contrast both languages’ amazing features and tooling and walk away with the confidence to to explore and build more with both languages and stacks.

Check out the schedule and other speakers here: https://www.codemash.org/

If you’re at the conference or the area, let me know! I’d love to chat.

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Techorama This Week – Kotlin, C#, Flux, Design Patterns, and more!

If you’re in the Netherlands this week, come catch me at Techorama! I’ll be there from the 30th through the 3rd of October and presenting two different sessions:

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On the 1st, I’ll be speaking on Kotlin for C# Developers:

Dive into the latest craze in languages and platforms – Kotlin. This time we will be looking at it from the perspective of a .NET C# developer, draw comparisons between the languages, and bridge the gap between these 2 amazing languages. We’ll look at: – Kotlin as a language – Platforms Kotlin is great for – Object Oriented Implementations in Kotlin – Extended Features – Features Kotlin has that C# doesn’t – A demo Android application in Kotlin vs a Xamarin.Android app in C# In the end you will leave with a foundational knowledge of Kotlin and its capabilities to build awesome apps with less code. You should feel comfortable comparing C# applications to Kotlin applications and know where to find resources to learn even more!
And on the 2nd I have another morning session on implementing the Flux design pattern in C# and .NET:
Learn about the Flux design pattern and how to implement it in your C# client applications like UWP, Xamarin, and all the other platforms .NET is touching now. We’ll compare Flux and Uni-Directional data flows to the existing tools and directions development takes us in C# client apps and talk about all the pros and cons that come with both. We’ll take an existing Xamarin.Forms app using MVVM and “Flux it Up” to migrate to a more 1-direction flow of data and actions. When you leave, you’ll have a solid understanding of Flux and some of its existing implementations such as Redux and be confident in implementing it yourself in C#!

Pre-conference Meetup

If you’re not going to Techorama this year, but are still in the area, you can find me tomorrow at the Dutch Mobile .NET Developers meetup with some of the other amazing people from the Xamarin and .NET Community. I’ll be on a panel talking about mobile technologies and practices!

https://www.meetup.com/Dutch-Mobile-NET-Developers-Group/events/262894590/

 

Here’s the schedule:

18:00 Doors open & Dinner
19:00 – 20:00 The Latest and Craziest for Mobile .NET Developers
David Ortinau @davidortinau
Microsoft has been hard at work improving Visual Studio and Xamarin for mobile developers. I’ll demo the latest features you can use to make your dev experience better today. And in the future? Microsoft has some “coming soon” as well as highly experimental projects that are “must see”!

20:00 – 20:15 Break
20:15 – 21:00 Mobile Expert Panel with Alex, Brandon, Dan & Gerald
Open Q&A for these mobile experts that have absolutely made their mark in the mobile developer space. This is your chance to ask anything you’d like! Joining us are:

Alex Dunn @suave_pirate
Author at Pluralsight | Xamarin MVP | Microsoft MVP

Brandon Minnick @thecodetraveler
Microsoft Developer Advocate | Mobile App Developer

Dan Siegel @danjsiegel
Microsoft MVP | @PrismLib Maintainer | Xamarin Evangelist | @XamDevSummit Organizer

Gerald Versluis @jfversluis
Engineer @Microsoft for #XamarinForms | Former Microsoft MVP

21:00 Drinks & Closing

 

See ya’ll there!

If you like what you see, don’t forget to follow me on twitter @Suave_Pirate, check out my GitHub, and subscribe to my blog to learn more mobile developer tips and tricks!

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HACKMIT 2019 This Weekend!

HackMIT is this weekend, September 14-15th.

I’m happy to announce that I’ll be mentoring as one of the local Microsoft MVPs that were invited to help as part of the Microsoft sponsorship of the event. I look forward to building some incredible applications with some of the brightest students coming to Cambridge! Hack for a reason 🙂

Check out some of the awesome tracks:

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If you’re hacking this weekend, come find me for help with:

  • Conversational AI
  • Voice First Development
  • Azure
  • AWS
  • Machine Learning
  • Unity
  • C#
  • JavaScript/TypeScript
  • Kotlin
  • React
  • Video Editing
  • and RTC

See ya’ll there!

If you like what you see, don’t forget to follow me on twitter @Suave_Pirate, check out my GitHub, and subscribe to my blog to learn more mobile developer tips and tricks!

Interested in sponsoring developer content? Message @Suave_Pirate on twitter for details.

NDC Oslo Coming Up!

Just a quick post today to tell you all how excited I am for the next event I’ll be at:

NDC, one of my absolute favorite conference series is going to be running their original NDC Oslo conference in the next couple weeks! As always, I’m so humbled to be among some of the most amazing people in the Software industry that I personally have learned so much from. I hope to be able to share my experiences and learnings with you all in return!

I’ll be speaking about two of my favorite programming languages, Kotlin and C#! If you’re a C# developer and are interested in learning more about Kotlin and what’s been going on with one of the hottest new languages, come check out my session where we will intro Kotlin, compare features of the language, and even talk about how they might play well together in the future! If you don’t come for the languages, come for the stickers! I’m coming in hot with some awesome Kotlin, Xamarin, and C# stickers.

If you aren’t coming to NDC Oslo, be sure to check out my Kotlin posts here as well as check out my course on Pluralsight – Building Andorid Apps with Kotlin: Getting Started to learn about how to apply Kotlin to building native Android apps with the latest and greatest tools!

You can also checkout an older version of my Kotlin for C# Developers talk from NDC London here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR8zPYlNU0k

Can’t wait! See you there!

If you like what you see, don’t forget to follow me on twitter @Suave_Pirate, check out my GitHub, and subscribe to my blog to learn more mobile developer tips and tricks!

Interested in sponsoring developer content? Message @Suave_Pirate on twitter for details.

HackMIT This Weekend!

HackMIT is this weekend, September 16-17.

I’m happy to announce that I’ll be mentoring as one of the local Microsoft MVPs that were invited to help as part of the Microsoft sponsorship of the event. I look forward to building some incredible applications with some of the brightest students coming to Cambridge, and may the best faction win! Keep an eye out for me Sunday morning, and feel free to reach out if you’re attending.

 

If you like what you see, don’t forget to follow me on twitter @Suave_Pirate, check out my GitHub, and subscribe to my blog to learn more mobile developer tips and tricks!

Interested in sponsoring developer content? Message @Suave_Pirate on twitter for details.