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Workshop on Windows Phone 7
3I will be the Presenter in a new workshop in Uni-Bonn in which I will introduce the students to the newest phone on the market, Windows Phone 7. Even if it seems very resembling with my first one, you’ll find plenty of new and interesting new things to learn.
Location: CIP Pool (Windows-CIP-Pool in the outside yard container in the back of the Uni-Bonn, near the gym Halle 5)
Date: Friday, 19.11.2010 Update : Friday, 26.11.2010 (Sorry, unfortunately an administrative problem prevent it to be held at original date)
Duration: between 9:30 and 15-16:00 depending on your enthusiasm! And of course, we'll have a lunch break at 12-12:30.
In this workshop we will focus on developing a Silverlight application for the Phone, a Twitter client. This hands-on workshop will go deeper with technology more than theoretical presentations, such that you get what you’ll come for: the knowledge of developing for the Phone.
Windows Phone 7 Game development
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On 9-10 October 2010, I had the pleasure to be Microsoft Student Partner Presenter in one of the nicest events that I was in. Me and my MSP colleague, Sebastian Stünkel, co-presented a 2 day workshop and theoretical talk on Windows Phone 7 gaming, event hosted in Duisburg-Essen University by Robert Walter. The recipe was quite simple:
First day:
- Windows Phone 7 – the device and its features
- Tools for creating applications
- XNA presentation
- Game development with XNA
- Lunch break
- Accelerometer API
- Multitouch
- Open End Programming
Second day:
- Day 1 Round-Up
- Silverlight presentation
- Silverlight Apps and Games
- Lunch break
- Marketplace / Services
- Open End Programming
Microsoft Strategy Summit 2010
0Yesterday I had the opportunity to be at this year Microsoft’s Summit held in Köln at Palladium Center.
As Microsoft Student Partner, I attended this event with another interest: helping my colleagues to stay in touch with the event through Social tools like Twitter or Facebook. Due to the limitations in WiFi connection, I wasn’t able to upload pictures at that time. But I was able to send tweets on #MS2010_Koln. You can view them on my twitter account or on the Student Partners’ Portal where I implemented a nice JQuery plugin to retrieve them.
The pictures can be seen here:
The event was very nice organized. When I arrived a nice breakfast helped me to regain power lost by traveling from Bonn and a coffee to make me sharp and fast in twittering. In the first session I wasn’t able to tweet too much because I used my old Symbian UIQ phone for which I didn't found a nice twittering application. But in the break I discovered that I can access Palladium’s wireless network and the fun began.
MSP Summit 2010
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On 17th of September the Microsoft Student Partners Summit 2010 was held. We were invited by our Community colleagues to München. The joy started by being taken by a nice bus and head on to road and no one knew at that time were we are taken but the Community MSP. Everything was surrounded by mystery and the software theme was Windows Phone 7, Cloud and Internet Explorer 9.
So I left Bonn with my colleagues towards München in a beautiful morning, packed with 2 days supplies and my laptop. When I arrived in Microsoft HQ in München I shot this picture:
MCTS in ASP .NET – exam 70-562
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Yesterday I’ve become Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) in .NET Framework 3.5 ASP.NET Applications by passing the 70-562 exam!
First, I want to share with you my web development background:
- I have around 4 years of ASP .Net experience. Mainly, my experience is on .Net 1.1 and 2.0. I developed for mobile devices when there weren’t yet smart phones around us. I’ve worked on a solution that connected an Asus Palm to Nokia phones, first providing the interface, second providing the connectivity to a collection of webservices who provided encrypted and authentication for data exchanged.
- Then I’ve worked on a governmental website, creating features and maintaining it.
- Later on, I’ve managed the entire lifecycle of a website, from hosting, Windows Server / IIS maintenance to development and deployment of the website.
Let’s get to my experience in this exam…
Why .Net 3.5?
Almost all blog posts claim that the .Net 3.5 is just an extension of .Net 2.0, but when getting deeper, you realize that those developers who worked on it really produced a good quality product with many improvements and many added features over the previous version. Mainly, you’ll understand here the point of having a .Net 3.5 certification.
Comparing .Net 2.0 to 3.5 we’ll find a big difference. For example:
- ASP.NET AJAX
- New ListView and DataPager Controls
- LINQ
- WCF Support for RSS, JSON, POX and Partial Trust
- JavaScript Debugging and Intellisense
- Multi-targeting Support
.. and more on this you can read on Microsoft Official Statement.
Rhetorik und Präsentationsworkshop
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On 9th and 10th of June I had two days of Presentation and Retoric workshop. Our teachers were Anton Schweizer and 
Christopher Schleiden, both being Microsoft Student Senior Partners.
We were 5 students(unfortunately, one is missing from the picture), most of us Junior Students Partners. We were also preparing our first workshops. This training combined theoretical and practical knowledge, helping us in creating a better atmosphere and easier share the knowledge to our auditorium.
The workshop, who was a fully blown 2 days (on the second day we had like 10 hours). We started with a base line presentation. This was supposed to be a baseline, to understand where we need improvement and a comparison base for the presentation in the final, to see what we learned.
Workshop: Introduction to ASP .Net
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The next workshop of the Microsoft Student Partner in cooperation with the student body of Uni Bonn is coming!
This time is about the basics of ASP.Net and Visual Studio 2010. The workshop provides a starting point in Web programming by many practical exercises in small groups. Aim is the development of smaller Web projects, such as photo albums or guest books.
The registration is free. You can register until Thursday, the 20.01.2010 12: 00 pm by E-mail to schaller@informatik.uni-bonn.de. Space is limited by the number of available computers in the CIP pool. We have 24 fixed stations and six more places available for students with their own laptop. Please give at registration details if you will bring a laptop with Visual Studio 2010.
All participants can receive, upon request, a certificate of participation in the workshop.
Windows Phone 7 Coding Camp
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Just joined Microsoft Students Partners for few days, and me and my colleagues in Team West were invited to a Code Camp for learn developing for Windows 7 Phone with XNA. The camp was established in the castle, in Freusburg. We traveled from Köln after my RIA Business Applications presentation in the Springboard conference.
This special event joined together five very known and respected Microsoft Evangelists: Frank Fischer, Oliver Scheer, Frank Prengel, Tom Wendel and Jan Schenk. They are experts and known figures in programming world, with expertise in Windows Phone 7, Silverlight and XNA.
In the landscape of the castle, with Towers and defensive walls, we’ve been Knights .. of Code, of course (in German is Code Ritter). The organization was purely German: perfect! We had a lot of fun, lots of presentations and access to the knowledge gathered along the years of all five Evangelists.
In the first evening (who was right our Team West own event), we had the Microsoft Phone introduction by Frank Prengel (also known as Dr. Mobile) , XNA presentation by Tom Wendel (The Ant Man) and Silverlight presentation by Oliver Scheer, known as “Mr. deep zoom”. After all presentation, a collective brainstorming revealed around 30(!) ideas for implementing next day, who were judged from usability, possibility of creation and interesting points of view by our 5 Evangelists. Finally, we created teams based on the projects appealing to us. We followed our instincts and smell the code inside each application promise.
Microsoft Student Partners
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Today I had the pleasure to make the first step in Microsoft Student Partners organization (West Germany branch).
It all started when I went to a very interesting workshop on Windows 7 VHD, presented by Daniel Neumann.
So I applied by sending to Microsoft Student Partners enrollment e-mail address a cover letter, my cv and a short description. After a while, I got a call from Anton Schweizer, Senior Student Partner, and I was invited to an interview.
I also had to prepare a presentation. It supposed to be a 10 minutes long presentation on a technical theme. Because I like very much Silverlight, I started preparing it as main subject.
The interview was very relaxed and I got the usual questions: why do I want to join Microsoft Student Partners, why Microsoft, how much time can I invest in this, where and when can I prepare workshops, discussions on Microsoft products.
Basically, I understood that the duties of a Student partners are very similar to ones of Microsoft Evangelist:
- create presentations for its colleagues in University
- prepare workshops and assist students while working on a certain theme
- involve itself in the students life and present Microsoft technologies to them
Very interesting .. I just wait to start! They said that I will get soon a response regarding my application.
Later edit:
I WAS ACCEPTED!
Windows Live SkyDrive – whooping 25 GB of backup
0Being not a big fan of Microsoft Live products (I discovered few months ago Live Writer, but doesn’t count) I did not know about this service. I had to hand in back to the company that I worked for the laptop, so I needed intermediate space in order to preserve my written knowledge. Getting started with Windows Live SkyDrive is very straight forward. If you don’t already have a MSN account, get one by signing up for a Windows Live account. Then you’ll be able to get access to the free software that you’ll need to start using SkyDrive.
Immediately after you’re set up, an whooping amount of 25 GB of free space will be available to you to access from any internet connected PC or Web-enabled mobile device. On your desktop, you can even drag and drop files directly from your PC to your SkyDrive with the optional upload ActiveX tool.
What can you Store
Since it is your own space, store whatever you need or want to, but be on the law side – no copyright abuse, as written in Terms and conditions for using this service. This is your online safe, but use it wisely. If you own or use multiple computers, you can skip from now on uploading files in your email – you can access the same files wherever you go.
Share the knowledge
If you would like to share your hard worked files with your friends, coworkers, family or everyone (after all, internet is here to help us)? You can put data in a personal folder if it is private or the public folder, where it gets shared as you wish. Another key point is that each folders in your SkyDrive gets its own link and you can send it in an e-mail, add as a favorite, paste in a document, save as a shortcut… whatever you want to do.
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