Posts tagged WCF
Windows Phone 7 Coding Camp
May 12th
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
Mar 24th
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!
C# .Net using Post with HTTPWebRequest
Aug 8th
Just a reminder for posterity : posting with .Net its so easy! Check out the Cocoa touch framework to realize the difference!
public string Post(string url, string data) {
string strReturn = null;
try
{
//Encoding the post vars
byte[] buffer = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(data);
//Initialisation with provided url
HttpWebRequest WebReq = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
//Set method to post, otherwise postvars will not be used
WebReq.Method = "POST";
WebReq.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
WebReq.ContentLength = buffer.Length;
Stream PostData = WebReq.GetRequestStream();
PostData.Write(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
//Closing is always important
PostData.Close();
//Get the response handle, we have no true response yet
HttpWebResponse WebResp = (HttpWebResponse)WebReq.GetResponse();
//information about the response
HTTPStatusCode status = WebResp.StatusCode;
string server = WebResp.Server;
//read the response
Stream WebResponse = WebResp.GetResponseStream();
StreamReader _response = new StreamReader(WebResponse);
strReturn = _response.ReadToEnd();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
}
return strReturn.Trim();
}
Enjoy!
Working in Fraunhofer Institute of Technology
Mar 2nd
Starting today, I work as a Student Helper in Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology. The branch from Sankt Augustin, which I joined, is focused on the research of human-centered computing in a process context. I will activate in the Cooperation and Community Support department, which deals with the research and development of community portals, (mobile) communities and cooperation, Internet-based groupware, cooperative knowledge management, application service providing for cooperative work and virtual teams, rating and recommender systems and cooperative learning environments.
The head of the department is Prof. Wolfgang Prinz, PhD and I will work closely with Mr. Nils Jeners, researcher in FIT. I had the pleasure of attending Mr. Prinz course, CSCW and Groupware, while being student in the Media Informatics Master, held by RWTH Aachen University. CSCW stands for Computer Supported Collaborative Work.
My first task is to study the Twitter community, applications based on it and the actual phenomena. My work should help in better understanding the aspects of human behavior, social interaction between humans and in particular the tools and services used for microblogging. This will allow also to discover ways to extract patterns in the context of this technology, who is changing the ways that people interact and socialize over the Internet.
