Memphis .Net User Group - August Meeting

[Brian Swanson]

Date/Time: August 22, 2013 at 6:00PM

Location: Southwest Tennessee Community College

5983 Macon Cove 
Fulton Auditorium
Memphis, TN 38134

RSVP: http://meetu.ps/1WLsNq

Presentation: A Level Playing Field for Mobile Application Development

Have a great idea for an iOS application but don’t want to learn Objective-C?  How about an Android application but don’t want to have to endure Eclipse?  Are you a .NET developer who feels left out of the mobile game?  If you answered ‘YES!’ to any of the above questions, you should come to this session and check out Xamarin Studio.  Leveraging Mono, an open source and cross platform implementation of Microsoft’s .NET Framework, Xamarin Studio makes it possible for you to write mobile applications for the iOS and Android platforms using C# and .NET.  Furthermore, you’re just a stone’s throw away from Windows Phone.  Xamarin Studio enables developers to share up to tens of thousands of lines of source code across platforms, in some cases up to 80% of the application’s source.  That’s code that you don’t have to design, write, test and maintain for each platform.  Be kind to yourself, start using Xamarin Studio!

Speaker: Douglas Starnes

Douglas Starnes is an application developer in the Institute for Intelligent Systems at The University of Memphis where he is also a masters candidate in management information systems. One of the co-directors of the Memphis Python User Group, Douglas is a frequent speaker at conferences and user groups in Memphis and the surrounding area. He has also been a speaker in the past year at DevLink 2012 and PyArkansas 2012. A supporter of the Memphis tech community, he is a founding board member of GeekMemphis and an organizer of the local tech conference TechCamp Memphis. Douglas also participates in the startup community in Memphis in addition to being a music technologist, re-aspiring triathlete and avid Lego collector.