Memphis .Net User Group (MNUG) - May Meeting
Brian Swanson
5983 Macon Cove
Fulton Auditorium
Memphis, TN 38134
There has never been a better time to develop .NET-based software for mobile devices. The 2014 edition of Microsoft’s Build developer conference introduced new updates to Windows and Windows Phone. These included new language targeting Windows Phone and a convergence of the Windows and Windows Phone platforms. Also announced at Build were improvements to mobile services running on Microsoft Azure. Backends for mobile applications are now simpler to develop and less costly to operate. This session will discuss what these new features mean to developers and to the users of their applications. We will look at how to develop connected applications in multiple languages that run across devices and platforms.
Douglas Starnes is a polyglot ninja in the Memphis, TN area. He has spent the past 7 years developing software in multiple languages including C#, Python, JavaScript and more on mobile, cloud and web platforms. His community involvement includes speaking at conferences such as DevLink, St. Louis Days of .NET, CodePaLOUsa, CodeStock in addition to the .NET and Java User Groups in Memphis. He is the co-organizer of the Memphis Python User Group (MEMPy) and one of the organizers of PyTennessee, the annual state of Tennessee Python conference. Douglas is also a founding board member of GeekMemphis, the local technology advisory organization in Memphis. He can be found on the web at http://douglasstarnes.com and on Twitter at @poweredbyaltnet.