Have you been wondering about HTML5? Have an interest in creating games? Microsoft is happy to announce a round of free, full day developer training for HTML5 with a specific focus on gaming!
If you haven’t had the chance to get started yet now is the time. These HTML5 Game Camps will get you up to speed and
More details via Chris Bowen here…
Ready to learn HTML5? Enjoy games, too?
Join in the HTML5 Game Camps, free events offering a chance to learn about the next wave of web standards including HTML5, CSS3, Canvas, SVG, and more. And while you gain practical knowledge about HTML5 and JavaScript techniques, it’s all joined together by the fun of creating games!
These are part of the Microsoft Web Camps series and feature a half day of sessions followed by hands-on game creation time. Get up to speed with HTML5 and game dev concepts in the sessions, then turn your ideas into reality as we leave the slides behind. Design and develop creations of your own, with plenty of guidance and help for your questions.
Here’s where the HTML5 Game Camps are heading, with links to details and registration:
(Note some of these events are morning through afternoon, and others are afternoon to evening.)
Don’t forget to read the prep steps at the bottom of the event pages. To get ready for coding, consider installing WebMatrix (it’s free) and other tools via the Web Platform Installer. Also, consider attending with a friend and tackling the game creation as a team!
For those of you in the Rochester, NY area, there’s a special RIT Game Camp the weekend of December 2nd-4th. It’s all about game development, and features multiple ways to learn about and create games:
It’s free, hosted on the campus of RIT, and open to everyone. So, choose what you’d like to participate in, and enjoy!
The second 2011 Philly.Net Code Camp was held at DeVry University campus in Fort Washington, PA this past Saturday, October 15. As usual the day included:
Lots of code! 8 hours of learning and networking 70 sessions by 60+ speakers 13 tracks + Open Spaces Forum 600 seats with tables Breakfast, lunch (two groups), and afternoon snack Raffles and prizes after second lunch and closing Booster registration option for charity donations, parties, and prizes
Lots of code!
8 hours of learning and networking
70 sessions by 60+ speakers
13 tracks + Open Spaces Forum
600 seats with tables
Breakfast, lunch (two groups), and afternoon snack
Raffles and prizes after second lunch and closing
Booster registration option for charity donations, parties, and prizes
The content at Philly Code Camp has always been top knotch and you can watch some of the prior years sessions here. This year was no exception! With over 70 sessions from top local speakers the day was packed with content. Here is a breakdown of the tracks:
alt.NET - Brian Donahue - 113 Mitch Ruebush - Designing a REST API for your ______ Stephen Bohlen - Behavior-Driven Development: Turning User Stories into Executable Specifications Dane Morgridge - The Demystification Of The Allure Of Ruby John Zablocki - NoSQL and .NET: Relaxing with CouchDB Vladimir Gizspenc - Using Mono and Open Source to reach MacOS, iOS, Android and Linux
Architecture - Mitch Ruebush - 106 Abraham Sultan - PaaS or Fail: Preparing for Your Changing Role in Software Development and Delivery Bryan Deitrich - What's a DBA To Do? Continuous Integration and Automated Deployments of Miguel A. Castro - Advanced MVVM: Engineering the UI, Without the UI Michael Montgomery - Modern Software Architecture: The Business of Building Better Mike Diiorio - Build Hybrid Applications with the Azure AppFabric Service Bus
Data - Dane Morgridge - 109 Alan M. Silverblatt - Data Encryption 101 David Hoerster - OData and jQuery - Perfect Together David Hoerster - Expression Trees - The Missing LINQ Ken Lovely - Using Repository and Unit of Work patterns in EF 4.1 with a WCF Domain Model Jim Priestley - Real World SQL Azure: Tuning for 27,000 visitors per day searching against a 10,000 row catalog
Framework - Todd Snyder - 132 Daniel R. Clark - The Fundamentals of Object Oriented Programming Doug White - Getting started with R Chris Gomez - XNA Levels Up: Publish Your Games Now Will Robertson - Window Phone MVC Anthony Mastrean - Event Sourcing Simplified
Mobile Apps - Rob Keiser - 108 Samidip Basu - Let's peel Mangos! Rob Keiser - Live Tiles in Mango Greg Shackles - Cross Platform Mobile Development with .NET Kevin Griffin - jQuery on the Go Sachin Deshpande - Mobile Web Apps development using MVC3 and JQuery Mobile
SharePoint - Michael Mukalian - 111 David E. Patrick - SharePoint Developer Intro - Building Visual Web Parts Chris Keyser - Integrating complex web services with a BCS Assembly Connector Michael Mukalian - "Oh sir, it's only wafer thin!" - Managing Large Lists in SharePoint 2010 David Mann - Instrumentation and Debugging, on-premises and in the Cloud Jennifer Kenderdine - InfoPath Forms and Web Parts
Silverlight - John Baird - 125 Jason L. van Brackel - Introduction to WPF John Baird - Silverlight Data Templating and Styling Joel Cochran - An Introduction to Expression Blend Andy Schwam - Silverlight - Lessons from the real world Matt Van Horn - Advanced XAML Tricks
SQL & BI - Said Salomon - 110 Alex Grinberg - Make the system tables work for you. Said Salomon - SQL Bouncer Logon Security Without Triggers Joshua Lynn - Learn RegEx in T-SQL & kick \ Mark Kromer - Silverlight in SQL Server BI Reporting Solutions Dan Hartshorn - How to get started with BI using SharePoint and Office
Tools - John Zablocki - The Orchard Project: From Installation to Customization Travis Laborde - 134 Travis Laborde - NoSQL? No Way? Yes way! Jeffrey McArthur - Dependency Injection with MVC3 and Unity (Session, we don't need no stinking Session) Chris Meadows - Need Some Cache? Redis in Depth. Doug Finke - PowerShell for .NET Developers
v.Next - Ken Lovely - 105 Tony Verguldi Jr - Building Metro Apps Roger Doherty - Introduction to Microsoft SQL Server Code Name "Denali" Bill Wolff - A Lap Around Windows 8 Chris Love - Going Metro Today, Tales from the Trenches Dani Diaz - Cool New Things Your Windows Phone Apps Can Do
Web Dev I - Nick Berardi - 120 Prasad Bapatla - HTML 5 for ASP.NET Developers Adam Tuliper - Hack Proofing your ASP.Net MVC and Web Forms Applications JP Toto - Building a Proper REST API with the new WCF WebAPI Roberto Hernandez - KnockoutJS and ASP.NET MVC Dane Morgridge - Intro to Rails 3 with MongoDB
Web Dev II - John V. Petersen - 121 Kevin Griffin - ASP.NET MVC From The Ground Up Stephen J . Bodnar - Using jQuery UI and Plugins to Make your Sites Look and Work Better John V. Petersen - Building your first jQuery Plugin Don Demsak - Not Miguel Castro's WCF - Intro To WCF Made Easy- WCF HTTP Programming Model Soe Tun - MVC, T4, Scaffolding, & Architecture
Web Dev III - Marc Ziss - 122 Kendall Miller - Massive Scalability for ASP.NET you can Afford Kevin Buckley - Build your own JQuery widget Joy Chakraborty - WCF Performance Optimization Jess Chadwick - Razor: From MVC Views to Maintainable Templating Solutions Chuck Sailer - Asynchronous Programming in ASP.NET
Open Spaces - Jess Chadwick - 102 An open discussion forum lasting the entire day. The format is deliberately fluid, with the general flow consisting of: participants shout out topics to discuss, vote on a topic, discuss it for 10 minutes (or more... or less), and then pick a new topic. Rinse and repeat for an entire day of lively and intriguing group conversation!
The Philly .NET community also donated over $1,000 during the day to Alex’s Lemonade Stand. If you haven’t heard of this non profit before please click on the link and watch the below video that goes over the story behind who Alex was and her idea for a Lemonade stand. There is also a heartwarming story from a mom who beat her child’s cancer and takes us through a journey of what Alex’s did for them. A great reminder for how blessed we truly are in our industry and what we can do to give some of that back.
We are now a month into the latest round of Windows Phone Camps on the East Coast, US and the apps keep pouring in!
Over 80 new apps got created during the Philly, Reston and Cambridge events I attended. You all rock!
If you’ve been thinking of writing an app for Windows Phone now is the time. With over 30,000+ apps already the opportunities to strike it big continue to grow! I have seen steady growth in my own apps on the marketplace as we continue to bring new countries and new advertisers online.
During Cambridge this past week we also had several app developers show up who told their own story and the type of money they were making.
I had the chance to invite one of those people onto stage with me during my “How to make money with Windows Phone” talk. Chevon Christie, is a college student who first attended one of our Windows Phone Firestarters in NYC last year. Since then he has gone on to create several successful apps including NYC Transit that was featured on Gizmodo.
Tara Walker, one of my teammates, did an interview with Chevon you can also check out:
There are more Windows Phone Camps planned so if you haven’t signed up yet you may be able to score a seat and a chance at winning some great prizes!
-Dave