Category: SDN Event

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Software News and Events for Week 34

SDN Cast

Another webcast (Dutch) with tech-news and this time a Docker and HoloLens Demo. This is week 34 and here is the news we discussed in our SDN Cast. The latest news on software development with both serious and light news items.

Where can you find the Dutch SDN Cast edition 16?
https://youtu.be/ILQd9Saol9s

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News of the week

Visual Studio “15” Preview 4
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2016/08/22/visual-studio-15-preview-4

What’s new in C# 7.0
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/08/24/whats-new-in-csharp-7-0

Why are we open sourcing our extensions?
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudioalmrangers/2016/08/17/why-are-we-open-sourcing-our-extensions
https://github.com/ALM-Rangers/Countdown-Widget-Extension

GitHub Extension for Visual Studio 2.0 is now available
https://github.com/blog/2232-github-extension-for-visual-studio-2-0-is-now-available

Google Stops Chrome Browser Apps (Except for Chrome OS)

http://blog.chromium.org/2016/08/from-chrome-apps-to-web.html

Microsoft Edge and Continuum: Your desktop browser on Mobile
https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2016/08/24/microsoft-edge-continuum

The Dick Moffat Technique
https://dmoffat.wordpress.com/2016/08/24/how-to-really-publish-excel-data-to-power-bi

Power BI Desktop Augustus Feature Summary

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-august-feature-summary

No More Ransomware

https://www.nomoreransom.org/

Fun: Xbox onesie
https://majornelson.com/2016/08/25/xbox-onesie-giveaway/?linkId=28048492

Events

This week’s events

Xamarin Dev Days Amsterdam- Augustus 27th
https://www.xamarin.com/dev-days
https://ti.to/xamarin/dev-days-amsterdam

Next week events

Announcing the “App Dev on Xbox” – august 30 live event

https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/08/23/announcing-the-app-dev-on-xbox-live-event

SDN event September 2nd – Zeist


Our second Dutch SDN Event for 2016 with special guest Roy Janssen with his company Semper IT showing the HoloLens for you to see with your own eyes what the device looks like and what it can do. In a special presentation Roy will show you what you can do with it. There is still room for registration for the event in Zeist (NL) so don’t miss it and register here:

http://www.sdn.nl/EVENTS/2-september-2016

Upcoming events

Fixxup – September 22nd
http://fixxup.nl

LevelUp Mobile 2016 – September 22nd
https://www.afas.events/portal-events/levelup2016?_anta_mlayout=Single

CodeUUR Worldrecord – October 14th

http://Codeuur.nl

.NET Developer Days – Central / East Europe – October 19-21
http://net.developerdays.pl/

Demo context:

This week in our Dutch webcast two demos, the HoloLens Teaser and a Docker Intro. We asked Roy Janssen to give us a quick intro of what we can expect in his sessions at the SDN Event next week September 2nd and we also did a Docker Demo as a follow up of one of our earlier SDN Casts where we discussed the Docker Conference a couple of weeks ago.

HoloLens

This week a HoloLens Teaser to warm us up for next week’s event we organized: SDN Event op 2 september. Roy is showing us what you can do with the HoloLens and is showing what Augmented Reality is all about. Next week in the SDN Event session he will deep dive into the HoloLens in a special session giving an overview of the options you have to develop for the HoloLens by showing use of the tools and applications available. His company can be found at his website http://semper-IT.nl.

Docker

A couple of weeks ago we discussed the Docker Conference in our Events section. As promised back then, this week we finally demoed in our 16th Dutch SDN Cast Docker for Windows to show you how quick and easy it is to set up a running Docker environment on your Windows machine and use some of the images available on http://hub.docker.com.

We hope you like watching our Dutch SDN Casts to catch up in about an hour on the topics that are hot for this week and hear the latest news and see the great demo’s on technology and software development that you can apply in your real world scenarios.

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SDN Conference September 2015

Friday September 11th we are organizing another Dutch SDN Event for 2015 in The Netherlands. With four full tracks of sessions hosted in Zeist in the Achmea Conference Center on:

Microsoft Band – Roy Jansen

Microservices – Dennis van der Stelt

Reverse Engineering and security analyses – Michiel van der Sluis

DevOps and ALM – Hassan Fadili

A special ‘track’, a couple of sessions, on PowerShell with Claus Nielsen from Denmark and Eric Tummers

Cross Platform Development – Klaas Polinder

Extensibility with Chrome apps – Fanie Reynders

Windows Azure SQL Databases – Tobiasz Janusz Koprowski

OWIN – Dennis Doomen

SQL Server Source Control in the Cloud Era  – Tobiasz Janusz Koprowski

Distributed Systems principles – Dennis van der Stelt

Azure Websites – Eelco Koster

TIdTCPClient – Herbert Schrama

REST Web Services with XML – Bob Swart

and last but not least Stephen Ball talking about:

Azure Translator Services with Delphi

IoT and Delphi

InterBase XE7 & Change Views

In other words a lot to go and see in one day! For the full descriptions and to register, visit our SDN Event page:
http://sdn.nl/EVENTS/11-september-2015

Make sure you will be there, not only to learn but to network with peers as well or get your printed copy of the SDN Magazine!. See you there!

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SDN Event Speaker Request

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For our quarterly Dutch SDN Events we are always looking for people with interesting presentation proposals. March 28th of 2014 is our next SDN Event and already have received several proposals. To name a few topics (preliminary, subject to change):

  • Team Foundation Server
  • Azure Mobile Services
  • Roslyn
  • Windows 8/8,1
  • Windows Phone
  • Delphi
  • HTML5
  • Microsoft Dynamics NAV
    If you want to share your knowledge with your peer developers contact us: @MarcelMeijer or @aafvstam (me) and we will put you on the list to do your talk at the next SDN Event (or if that is a better fit for you one of the following SDN Events). We would like to schedule about twenty session slots with a wide variation of topics related to the complete software lifecycle so that means your topics can cover everything from initialization, design, deployment, marketing and end user support. In other words covering the complete ALM cycle of your software development projects including best practices, design patterns etcetera.
    Don’t hesitate, contact us … share your knowledge to the world!

Showtime: Paranormal Activity, The Marked Ones

Paranormal Activity The Marked Ones

The “Showtime” section on my blog is a reminder, mostly for my own reference but maybe helpful for other film enthusiasts as well, to remember what movies I’ve seen lately, what it was about and how I rated it in general.

Paranormal Activity, The Marked Ones is not part of the other Paranormal Activity series (Paranormal Activity 1,2,3,4 and 5 on its way to arrive this year) although it does include some hidden footage from Paranormal Activity 3 but is a so called spinoff.

The story is about high school graduate Jesse and he is experiencing weird things after his neighbor was found dead. He is curious to see what happened there and investigates the abandoned home of his neighbor. Not long after that he appears to be marked for possession and affecting the people around him.

The movie feels a bit low budget (the actual budget was $5,000,000 so what is low) and to me was not that thrilling. As with the other Paranormal Activity movies this one was also captured as if it was recorded using a home video camera (as seen in the The Blair Witch Project) and gives you a messy interpretation of what is happening. Overall not the best horror movie available and I wouldn’t recommend spending your money on going to the cinemas. Instead wait for the TV, DVD or VOD and watch it at home with a bag of chips and get on with your life. Four out of Ten I’d say …

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SDN+(plus) Event in Arnhem

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Tomorrow morning at our annual December event, December 3rd we are having our ‘extended’ Dutch Software Development Network event in the real Olympic sportcomplex Papendal next to Arnhem, NL.

With speakers like Rockford Lhotka, Shawn Wildermuth, Dick Moffat, Marco Cantù, Brian Long and Cary Jensen we managed to get an excellent choice of speakers from all over the place but obviously there are also the Dutch presenters added to that making it all complete with sessions, dinner, networking from 10AM to 9PM!

For a complete overview of all our sessions have a look and check it out on http://www.sdn.nl/SDN/SDNEvent/Events2012/SDE3december2012/tabid/217/Default.aspx

You can still join us if you like and we’ll see you tomorrow to actually learn some new technologies or meet new developer peers!