This Thursday (7/10), Chad Stoker -- friend, long-time SSDotNet member and excellent developer -- will be presenting to the South Sound .NET User Group on Mobile Computing.
Here's a session summary:
Chad Stoker, long time South Sound .NET member, will be presenting information on the challenges and opportunities of developing applications for mobile devices.
Summary:
For the second month in a row, South Sound .NET is happy to offer a great presentation along with Pizza for all who attend our upcoming meeting (7/10).
The Presentation: Designing Apps for Mobility using the "latest"!
By 2012, over five billion wireless devices will be Web-enabled, including cell phones, notebooks, cars, media players, consumer electronics and toys. Web users and applications will go mobile. Agencies must become experts in mobile Web development for a wide range of employee and consumer applications. Find out about the future of FLASH, JSON, Silverlight, and AJAX on mobile devices and more!
What attendees will learn:
* Cross-browser detection, new WC3 Standards, and why there’s a new “Browser War”.
* What are “Native” Mobile Applications and why do they impact my hardware decisions?
* The REAL power of Mobile Technology… Offline data collection! (featuring the MS Synchronization Framework)
* How should agencies decide which mobile Web devices and technologies to support?
* What is the future of Mobile Web technologies? AJAX, JSON, FLASH, Silverlight… and more.
* Development, Debugging, Troubleshooting… which tools get your organization to the finish line?
* How will your Project Plan be impacted by Mobile Technology considerations and should you worry?
The presenter: Chad Stoker is a long time South Sound .NET UG member and Vice President of CodeSmart, Inc., who will be providing pizza to fill our bellies while Chad fills our brains. Bring your own beverage (there are vending machines onsite).
CodeSmart Inc., based in Olympia, Washington, was formed to meet the Information Technology needs of private and public sector clients. We offer a variety of services, from project management to architecture, from systems design to training, and of course, systems development and testing. We strive to develop the most efficient solutions, leveraging existing technologies while integrating into your environment. Our experienced staff can guide you through the myriad of choices toward a solution that makes the most sense for you… a smart solution. CodeSmart Inc. is a Microsoft Certified Partner with openings available now for .NET and Java developers.
The Big Prize: a free pass to Devscovery 2008 in Redmond! We have a free pass to give away at the July 10th meeting. Devscovery is a three day developer event (Aug. 19 - 21), offering 33 in-depth technical presentations on a wide range of software development technologies including AJAX, Silverlight, WCF/WPF/WF. Speakers include Jeffrey Richter, John Robbins, Scott Hanselman, Jeff Prosise, and other well known presenters and authors (including our very own Paul Mehner). And if that wasn't enough, an additional 22 sessions are being offered by Infragistics, on their toolset and lessons learned while delivering high quality solutions. Normally, registration costs $900 but South Sound .NET members can register at a discounted rate of $750. If you're the lucky winner of the free pass, you'll get all that content for free.
Meeting Specifics
July 10th, 7 - 9 pm
Olympia Center (222 Columbia NW)
All attendees are eligible for the prize drawings. Past prizes have included t-shirts, technical books, valuable software, passes to Devscovery, copies of Visual Studio, Vista, Office 2007 and more.
Don't forget to let your friends and co-workers know about this meeting. Feel free to forward this email and/or direct them to www.ssdotnet.org for more information.