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CNUG reached 1000 members

1 Mar

A few months ago I blogged that the Copenhagen .NET UserGroup had reached 900 members (http://wp.me/psB7P-ba). Today CNUG reached 1000 members – almost 0.02 percent of the Danish population.

Looking forward it is the plan to host one monthly meeting. A handfull of dedicated members is making sure that the meetings are planned and executed – and they handle the social events. Remember to give them some credit at the next meeting :) You can get an overview of future and past meetings at http://cnug.eventbrite.com.

Windows Developers in Denmark

1 Mar

Jeg bruger en del tid på at drive et par af de danske brugergruppe – herunder den danske brugergruppe for Windows Phone udviklere.

Brugergruppen har rundet 450 udviklere og har fået afholdt en serie af events i løbet af det seneste år, hvor mere end 120 udviklere har været igennem. En masse har gjort en kæmpe indsats for at få det til at lykkedes og brugt en masse tid på det – tak for det!

Windows platformen, om det er til en desktop, en tablet eller en telefon, tyder på at være en meget spændende platform at være udvikler til i den kommende tid. Platformen har et stort potentiale og indeholder en masse muligheder for både udviklere og virksomheder.

Meget af den viden, vi som udviklere har her Windows Phone brugergruppen, kan bruges på hele Windows platformen. Vi er vant til begreber som app, xaml og metro – begreber som er dybt integreret i Windows platformen fremover.

Windows Phone brugergruppen har derfor taget det første skridt til at samle den viden brugergruppen besidder med den viden, der skal oparbejdes i den kommende periode, hvor Windows platformen formodentlig vil få stor betydning for mange i brugergruppen.

Brugergruppen har skiftet navn til Windows Developers in Denmark.

I brugergruppen håber vi at I vil tage rigtig godt imod det og fortsat være med til at gøre det til en fantastisk brugergruppe. Vi vil meget gerne have jeres kommentarer, feedback og meget gerne forslag til talks så smid en mail på windowsdev@live.com.

// xamlgeek

Hvorfor lave noget gratis for en virksomhed?

17 Feb

I den forløbne uge har jeg mange gange måtte svare på, hvorfor jeg har valgt at deltage i udviklingen af en app for Berlingske – og så gratis endda! Personligt gør jeg det af flere årsager (og her behøver I bestemt ikke være enige!!!).

Først og fremmest brænder jeg for at udvikle og lave noget innovativt. For mig er det fantastisk at være med til at flytte nogle grænser for hvad der kan lade sig gøre og være med til noget ekstraordinært, noget som man kommer til at læse om i avisen.

Derudover er der det sociale aspekt. I forbindelse med FCK eventet i Parken lærte jeg en håndfuld nye personer godt at kende – udviklere (og designere!) som jeg ellers ikke ville komme til at arbejde sammen med. Som en sidebemærkning kan jeg nævne, at flere af dem da også allerede meldt sig på banen igen til dette event.

Den sidste motivationsfaktor for mig er kontakter. Jeg lever af mit netværk! Det er mit netværk der skaffer mig opgaver. Det er mit netværk der anbefaler mig til nye, potentielle kunder.

Er det bedre at lave noget for en non-profit organisation end for Berlingske? Det skal jeg slet ikke gøre mig til dommer over – det er en meget individuel sag. Som nævnt overfor har jeg nogle motiver for at deltage i eventet og som selvstændig vil jeg meget gerne gøre brug af det tilbud som Berlingske giver som tak for udviklingen.

Du kan læse lidt om eventet til Berlingske her og om FCK eventet her.

// thomas

Windows 8 talk

9 Feb

Yesterday I did a Windows 8 talk with Martin Jepsen (red. partner in Bluefragments). During our 3 hour long talk we talked about developing Metro Style Apps, Windows 8 contracts and WinRT. We got lots of good questions from the 85 people who participated which gave a relaxed atmosphere – thank you for that!

Slides from the talk can be downloaded here.

//xamlgeek

CNUG reaches 900 members

11 Jan

Yesterday I wrote a proud post about how the Windows Phone usergroup had reached 400+ members. Today I can write another very proud post about the Copenhagen .NET Usergroup (CNUG) – we have reached 900 members! Wow!

When I joined the inner circle a few years back I never thought that we was able to take the group to the size it got today. We have never had better enrollments for our events then what we have had for the last 6 months and we have a really good relationship with many companies in the Copenhagen area.

Thank you all for making this group real – I’m fucking proud of being part of it!

//xamlgeek

WPDEV reaches 400+ members

9 Jan

Today the Danish usergroup for Windows Phone developers (WPDEV) reached 400+ developers. During the 1½ years of existing we have held several code camps around Denmark with several hundreds of developers participating.

It’s been an pleasure to be part of the inner circle – I look forward to the next year with a lot of new stuff coming up.

//xamlgeek

Delete failed WP7 app submission

9 Jan

Sometimes it happens that one get to submit an app for certification and it fails. And in some cases one wish to just delete the submission after it fails – but that is not possible out-of-the-box on http://create.msdn.com. But there is an easy workaround.

Edit the submission details for the failed app. Add a new XAP-file – it doesn’t have be a modification of the original XAP-file. I have replaced the XAP-file with a dummy XAP-file called “delete.xap”. Hit the “Save and Quit”-button to quit the submission. In the overview the app submission have changed state to “submission incomplete”.

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Click the “submission incomplete” to go to the submission details. In the bottom you will have a “Delete submission”-button and you can delete your submission – yeah!

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//xamlgeek

Metro Style App questions in Twitter

6 Jan

MSDN got a series of Windows Metro style apps forums to cover questions within different aspects of Windows Metro style apps development. The forums are monitored by Microsoft employees and often they are replying fast to the questions. Stackoverflow got coverage of Windows 8 questions as well.

I have created @metrostyleapps giving you all questions from the MSDN forums and from Stackoverflow in Twitter. The feed is created using twitterfeed.com.

Enjoy!

//xamlgeek

Silverlight 5 is now available

12 Dec

This weekend Silverlight 5 was released. Pete Brown has written a fine overview of the new features here. The new version is available at silverlight.net – downloads are available here and an overview of the new stuff in Silverlight 5 can be downloaded here.

//xamlgeek

“Badevand” for Windows 8

22 Nov

Badevand (Bathing Water) is a Windows 8 metro app written in XAML and C#. It shows the water temperature, air temperature and rain level for 5 beaches in Copenhagen, Denmark.

You can download the package here.

Update with details view and more beaches will follow soon.

//xamlgeek

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