LADOTNET Master Series: PhoneGap in a day with Troy Miles

Date: June 1st, 2013
Location: Outlook Amusements, Burbank CA

Please note that you must register and pay for this event at:

http://ladotnetseries5.eventbrite.com/

Seating is limited to 50 attendees.

The Master’s Series is a hands-on lab, lecture and training.

The event is a 8 hour training with breakfast and lunch served. Attendees are required to bring their own laptop and participate.

Troy Miles is a designer and developer of software since 1979, he began his career writing games in assembly and C. Since then he has written code in C++, C#, Objective-C, Java, JavaScript and even a smidgen of Python. Along the way, some of his titles have won awards, he became a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer, and in 2012, he won a developer challenge at a local Microsoft Windows Phone Unleashed event.

His passion since 2007 has been mobile and mobile web development. In 2011, he joined the mobile development team at Kelley Blue Book. His small team is responsible for the KBB.com application for iPhone, Android, and Windows Phone 7 and the mobile versions of KBB.com. Troy also spends time talking to developer groups and maintaining his blog, The Rock n Coder. Also, check out some of his talks athttp://speakerrate.com/speakers/19985-troy-miles.

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A HANDS ON TRAINING!

PhoneGap

Take your PhoneGap skills to the next level.

This is an all day course focused on building good PhoneGap applications. This is not a class for newbies or those wanting to learn programming. It is intended for those who have some programming experience and some knowledge of JavaScript or other curly brace language. This class is hands-on and focused on development. You will write code, not watch slides.

You will leave this course with a confident knowledge of PhoneGap. You will learn JavaScript best practices, how to integrate popular libraries into your apps, using GPS and Google Maps, using HTML templates, and more. All of the sample code used in the class is yours to keep and use.

Agenda:

JavaScript Best Practices

Objects

Events

Functions

Libraries

jQuery

jQuery Mobile

Underscore

Backbone

Ajax

Getting data from the server

Sending data to the server

Generating lists of data

Pull to refresh

Location & Maps

Location

Google Maps

Creating Places of Interest and Info Windows

Get directions to/from places of interest

Reverse GeoCoding

Media

Take a picture

Annotate a picture

Upload a picture to a server

Download picture(s) from a server

UI

HTML Templates

Responsive design

Scrollable Containers (iScroll)

Charts

Plugins

***Please note that parking will not be validated by Outlook Amusements. Other parking options are street parking/public parking structures*******

WINDOWS 8 APP FACTOR

Have app ideas? Have software development skills? If so, that’s all you need to learn, compete and win! 7 Cities, 100′s of developers and 1000′s of great ideas. The opportunity is NOW! Don’t miss another chance to get in on the next great marketplace! Get your competitive juices flowing and participate in a FREE Windows 8 App Factor event.

Register Here :

San Diego May 31st Register for San Diego 10am 6pm

Irvine June 7th 2013 Register for Irvine 10am – 6pm

Get more information here

http://www.windows8appfactor.com/

WINDOWS 8 APP FACTOR LEARN

Part one of the series, Windows 8 App Factor Learn is a fun day of “training and auditions” where you will learn what you need to know to take your skills and ideas into a new economy.

Form a team where you can use your skills and compete to win.
Learn how to build an app from idea to store submission.
Start from scratch or use a beautiful sample to get started.
Free consulting from the local evangelist team (in person or online).

WINDOWS 8 APP FACTOR COMPETE

Part two of the series, Windows 8 App Factor Compete will provide you with an opportunity to show off your app (in-person) and hard work to the world and potentially win. Prizes will be awarded for best app (determined by judges), and peoples’ choice (determined by live audience).

Business System Analyst

Company: Qualcomm

Requisition Number: N1916094

Employment: Temporary

Title: Business System Analyst

Job Function: Design new and upgrade existing databases and websites to ASP.NET. Create, design and maintain QlikView pages.

Skills/Experience: The candidate must be familiar with ASP.NET MVC 4, SQL, QlikView, TOAD, HTML, C#, and be able to convert databases from Access platforms. Knowledge of SharePoint and Entity Framework is a plus.

Educational Requirements: Must have programming background and strong fundamentals in database applications.

Go to Qualcomm.com and click on Job Search. Enter the Req# N1916094.

San Diego Hackathon – Windows Phone – Nokia Developer

Nokia Developer welcomes you
to participate in the San Diego Hackathon.

Interknowlogy’s Danny Warren will guide you through the new and exciting Windows Phone 8 APIs. With the new skills learned and the assistance during the hands on labs, you can participate in the hackathon to win one of these prizes:

Register Here:

http://sandiegohackathon.eventbrite.com/

1st Place: $500 cash and a Nokia Lumia 920
2nd Place: $250 cash and a Nokia Lumia 822
3rd Place: $100 cash and a Nokia Lumia 620

Every developer/team (publisher) who publishes an app to the store will get:

$100 per app (up to $2000 Microsoft Keep the Cash Promo – See Details)
A Nokia Lumia 800

Every developer involved who submits an app for the hackathon will get:

Nokia Premium Developer Token ($1,500.00 value)
Membership to the Nokia Dvlup.com rewards program

Nokia Premium Developer Token

Windows Phone DevCenter account ($99.00 Lets you publish apps to the Store and unlock phones)
Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone license ($99.00)
1 Million Buddy API calls a month for 12 months ($1,200.00)
Two Nokia support tickets ($198.00)

Register Here:

http://sandiegohackathon.eventbrite.com/

There will be food, plenty of cool swag and resources to help you develop your app. We will have loaner devices at the event for you to do your final testing on. We will also have the Windows Phone SDK on thumb drives for you to install, it would be better for you to do this ahead of time.

See this post from Lance McCarthy for step by step instructions. You will have the opportunity to present your apps to the judges for a chance to win prizes. Keep in mind there will be plenty of people there that you can network with and make a good impression on. Microsoft is a sponor of this event! Bret Stateham and Daniel Egan of Microsoft will be supporting Danny and assisting developers! So come prepared and bring you’re A game!

Registration

8:30-9:00 am

Session I

9:00 am-10:00 am

App UI Design
XAML Intro
Data Binding
Lifecycle
Navigation

Hands on Lab

10:00 am-11:00 am

Session II

11:00 am-12:00 pm

Location
Live Tiles
Background Agents

Concurrent Lunch / Hands on Lab

12:00 pm-1:00 pm

Session III

1:00 pm-2:00 pm

Proximity
Monetization
Submission Process / Requirements

Hackathon

2:00 pm-6:45 pm

Hands on Lab

2:00 pm – 3:00pm

Concurrent Dinner

6:00 pm-6:45 pm

Presentations

6:45pm-8:00 pm

Judging \ Winners Announced

8:00 pm-8:30 pm

Danny Warren:

Danny’s passion for Windows Phone and desire to help build the community has driven him to innovate a blog series titled Simplifying Windows Phone Development. His series explains how to build a Windows Phone App from the ground up in very simple concepts. He also built a sample app to help explain the concepts and released the app to the community to view and use!
Over the last 6 months Danny has been working with the user group vNext Orange County and Saddleback Community College in Mission Viejo to co-teach a full 12 session course on Windows 8 WinRT App development. Each class is recorded and posted online for the entire community to view. Hands on sample apps are developed in each class to help students learn each topic and students are encouraged to do homework to reinforce what they learned. The classes have been huge successes in helping unemployed attendees learn new skills that help them secure future employment.
Danny’s excitement for the Nokia Lumia line is truly amazing. He continues to post on Social Networks about the platform and evangelizes everywhere and to everyone. He’s always learning something new and loves to answer questions.

Download the WP8 SDK Here. Go Here if you Bootcamp your Mac or use Parallels.

Stay Updated on Events at these local MeetUps:

San Diego

http://www.meetup.com/San-Diego-NokiaDeveloper/events/111840822/

Los Angeles

http://www.meetup.com/nokiadvlup/events/116185742/

*You need to be running Windows 7 to use the WP7 SDK and Windows 8 for WP8 developement. To use the WP8 SDK emulator you need to be running Windows 8 Pro. I am personally running this event and reserve the right to: Change any rules that are deemed unfair, Change a time slot or class topic, and change prizes if one become unavailable. Judging is final and you are responsible for any taxes or fees on the prize you win. Nokia and Microsoft and I are not liable for any injury or damages you sustain or involved in while participating. If you are already covered by another Nokia Ambassador, you need to make me aware of this before accepting any prizes. Every developer who is on a team that submits an app will get a Nokia Premium Developer Token. Only one “Lumia 800 and $100 per app” prize can be awarded per DevCenter Publisher (team or individual). Nokia’s Dvlup program is only open to developers from the US, Canada or the UK.

May 2013 Meeting

We hope you will join us for our May 7th meeting at AMN Healthcare. Here is the schedule:

• .NET Fundamentals Using ksoap2 to connect Android to .Net (Andrew Champagne) This will be an demo of how to use ksoap2 to connect an android app to a .NET website. I’ll go over on how to set it up, debug and use. I’ll also talk about some of the benefits and problems I’ve run into when using it.
  I’m Andrew Champagne. I’m an ATM programmer for Symitar. I write code in Android and .Net in my spare time.
• jQuery Mobile, Backbone, and ASP.NET Web API – A Framework for Making Mobile Web Applications (Troy Miles) – Websites designed for smart phones are one of the fastest growing segments of the internet. jQuery Mobile makes it easy to create sites for mobile devices, but it is mostly about UI. It doesn’t address the needs of an enterprise application. Things like how to load data from and persist data to the server, how to tie the JavaScript and HTML together, and minimize the amount of data transmitted. In this session I will show how to combine jQuery Mobile with Backbone.js and a ASP.NET Web API back-end. The end result is a website which is fast, efficient, and easy to enhance and maintain.
• Answer Man Woody Zuill (6pm – 7pm)
• Sponsor: DISCOUNT ASP.NET

Global Windows Azure Bootcamp – San Diego

Want to get up to speed on the latest Windows Azure hands-on? Want to engage in great discussions with peers and experts in the community who build products for enterprise customers and startups on Windows Azure?

Save the date – Saturday, April 27th, 2013.

All around the world on this date, over 50 locations will have a similar event – the Global Windows Azure Bootcamp.

FREE event! FREE lunch! Azure AWESOMENESS!

Our San Diego event will be held at the UCSD Extension campus in UTC. Michele Leroux Bustamante and Zoiner Tejada are your hosts. They’ll provide some background presentations, great discussions, and lead you through labs to practice hands on Windows Azure features.
BRING YOUR OWN LAPTOP!

The room will have Internet and power for everyone attending. You’ll need to make sure you have the following set up first:

Get your FREE Windows Azure subscription. Get a free 90-day trial.

Install the following on your laptop:
Choose the operating system you are most familiar with. We won’t have time to help you with issues related to the OS. Windows 7 (Home Basic not supported), Windows 8, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2, Windows Server 2012
Visual Studio 2012 (full version or Express – note if you use Express, you may not be able to complete all the labs)
Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio
Windows Azure Training Kit

Not just for beginners!

We will use the Windows Azure Training Kit to guide you to the basics. But we’re prepared to talk real world as well!

We’ll also be running a scalability experiment that just may bring one of the Windows Azure datacenters down!

April 2013 Meeting

We hope you will join us for our April 2nd meeting at AMN Healthcare. Here is the schedule:

• .NET Fundamentals
• Object Oriented Programming for Everyone (Paul Sheriff) – Are you still confused by Classes, Properties, Methods, Inheritance, Overloading, Events, Enumerations, “lions and tigers and bears oh my!” If so, then you need to attend this seminar where you will find the answers. You will be exposed to a step-by-step approach on how to make your traditional applications more object-oriented. You will learn how to re-factor your code to be more reusable, more scalable and more maintainable. Find out why adopting a purely OOP approach to your application development will make your applications easier to test and debug.
  Paul D. Sheriff is the President of PDSA, Inc. (www.pdsa.com), a Microsoft Partner in Southern California. Paul acts as the Microsoft Regional Director for Southern California assisting the local Microsoft offices with several of their events each year and being an evangelist for them. Paul has authored literally hundreds of books, webcasts, videos and articles on .NET, WPF, Silverlight, Windows Phone and SQL Server. Check out Paul’s new code generator ‘Haystack’ at http://www.CodeHaystack.com.
• Answer Man Woody Zuill (6pm – 7pm)
• Sponsor: DISCOUNT ASP.NET

March Mingle 2013

It’s that time of the year again! March Mingle is back for its 9th year and will take place at ScaleMatrix in Kearny Mesa on Wednesday March 13th from 7:00pm to 9:00pm.
Please join us for an exciting evening event of networking, drinks, food, to check out San Diego’s latest tech startups and discover what other local user groups are up to.

Since 2004, March Mingle has brought together technologists from San Diego’s technical user groups for a night of socializing and camaraderie. Thanks to the support of these user groups, San Diego geeks have sold out the venue for the last 3 years. The night is focused on connecting local tech groups and is conducted without sales pitches or demos.

You are invited to come out to talk shop, trade war stories, and munch on finger food while enjoying the evening with San Diego’s finest technologists.

Click here to purchase a ticket on Eventbrite: http://marchmingle2013.eventbrite.com
For more event details visit http://marchmingle.com

This is San Diego tech’s largest community event and we couldn’t do this event without your attendance and support. Please share this event on Facebook and Twitter.

DevIntersection Conference

Solve Your Development Challenges with Education

Register for SQLIntersection & DevIntersection Conference and get ahead of your SQL Server challenges. DevIntersection brings together many industry experts to help you explore the Microsoft tecnology stack as your team builds desktop, web and mobile applications. If your team  is using Visual Studio 2010 / 2012, JavaScript, HTML5 & CSS, Windows Azure or you want to explore DevOps, ALM or begin to write Windows 8 apps, DevIntersection is the place to be next month.

SQLIntersection will bring together real-world experts presenting problem solving techniques and technologies that you can implement today. The show will focus mainly on best practices for SQL Server versions 2012, 2008R2 and 2008 but also highlight the critical new technologies in SQL Server 2012. Our tracks will apply to almost anyone that works with SQL Server and will be hosted by experts in the community. Our hosts: Kimberly L. Tripp, Brent Ozar and Aaron Bertrand, will help guide you through the topics and sessions and help you find solutions! If you want practical information delivered by speakers that know not-only the technologies but are competent and consistently, highly rated speakers – this is the show for you. You will understand the RIGHT features to troubleshoot and solve your performance and availability problems now!

BONUS EVENT: Announcing <anglebrackets/> – A Conference for Developers Who Love the Web

Do you or a colleague develop for the web using open standards technologies? Are you moving into modern web design, targeting different platforms, and doing so with JavaScript, HTML and CSS?  Do you work with web developers and designers and is your team exploring upcoming web technologies? Plan to be at MGM Grand in Las Vegas, NV, April 8-11, 2013 for anglebrackets. Do you want to learn more? Click over to www.anglebrackets.org to find out more. This event is running concurrently with DevIntersection / SQLIntersection. Tell a friend.

Use the Discount Code EGAN on the DevIntersection / SQLIntersection registration page and save $50.

Contact Us

Web: www.devintersection.com www.sqlintersection.com

Phone: 203-264-8220

Email: info@devintersection.com

February 2013 Meeting

We hope you will join us for our Feb 5th meeting at AMN Healthcare. Here is the schedule:

• .NET Fundamentals
• Dependency Injection: A Practical Introduction (Jeremy Clark) – What is Dependency Injection? The answers to the question seem to cause more confusion than help. We’ll take a look at what Dependency Injection (DI) is, when we should use it, and what design patterns we can use to help us implement it. Benefits range from extensibility to late binding to testability. We can implement DI with or without a container (such as Unity, Ninject, or StructureMap), but we’ll see how a container can do a lot of the work for us.

  Jeremy Clark is an application developer and technical speaker with over 12 years of experience in all aspects of the development lifecycle. After hours, he puts together demos and technical articles for JeremyBytes.com, a website focusing on .NET technologies. Other times he can be found shredding on a plastic guitar to Guitar Hero. He lives in Anaheim, CA with a seedling redwood tree and his cats, Amanda and Toby.

• Answer Man Woody Zuill (6pm – 7pm)
• Sponsor: DISCOUNT ASP.NET