Well last week I was lucky to attend my very first ever TechEdevent in Orlando, FL. My brain I would have to say was smoking because of all the new technology Microsoft introduced at the event. I thought that event was a very impressive; I do hope to go in the future. I went to some very interesting sessions during the week. It was very hard to pick the ones I wanted because they had four tracks I was interested in at the conference.
The first track I was interested in was TFS. I would really like to go into a company and set them up with TFS. Then I can show them what TFS can do for management, testers, and of course the developers.In the sessions the presenters were able to show what the possibilities TFS will allow small to large organization to do.For one they will be able to build better software by using the full aspects of TFS all way down to reporting.
I would say the next track that interested me was the sessions with Windows Phone. So you are probably wondering why this interested me, because I’m in the process of building my first Windows Phone application.I’m hoping to maybe have it submitted and approved by the end of the month. A lot of what they did talk about was the fact how you can use XAML, HTML 5 and CSS to create phone apps. Also they did reference that about how easy to convert any of your Windows Phone apps to Metro Style applications.Then after all of the Windows Phone sessions I decided to go do the Exam Cram for Windows Phone because I’m going to take that exam. The instructor had some really cool techniques to taking Microsoft Tests as well as going over what is needed for the Windows Phone exam.
Now the Windows 8 Metro tracks were something that I was really interested in learning because Microsoft is pushing hard to have developers putting applications in the Windows Marketplace.In these tracks I learned some ways to develop Windows 8 applications in HTML5, CSS, and XAML.I learned about contracts, tiles, and push notifications. These are all things that I will utilize in the applications I will be pitching to Microsoft in two weeks. So I will keep you posted on my pitch with Microsoft.I’m really psyched to see how Microsoft is brining it all together.
The last track I went to was with the new features in SSRS 2012 and Big Data. I learned about a lot of awesome stuff with Big Data and how to use Hadoop when implementing these types of systems. I also saw some really cool features coming with SQL 2012 for reporting. I hope to incorporate a lot of the tools used for Big Data and the new features in SSRS 2012 to the Windows 8 Metro apps I’m hopping to build for Marketplace. So stay tuned to my blog for updates to my Windows 8 Metro application submission…..
