Xamarin Dev Days South Africa was amazing! Thank you very much to all that attended and hope it was worthwhile to take time off your busy scheduled to learn about Xamarin.
I am so proud to have been part of this and thank you to the team and all involved!
Xamarin Dev Days Cape Town
http://explorationspace.co.za/2016/09/30/xamarin-dev-days-cape-town-30-septemeber-2016/
Xamarin Dev Days Johannesburg
http://explorationspace.co.za/2016/09/23/xamarin-dev-days-johannesburg-23-september-2016/
Come join us for a very practical session on automating your Xamarin builds and setting up a continuous integration environment.
Leave here with skills to be able to use any CI tooling with Xamarin.
I am the speaker for this event.
Agenda
1) Introduction to Continuous Integration
2) How does Xamarin build stuff behind the scenes?
Fundamentals of MSBUILD
Xamarin and MS Build
iOS build agent for Visual Studio
iOS and Android Packaging
3) Setting up a continuous build server
The code repository
Automating the build
Hope to see you there!
Update
The content is available here: https://github.com/apead/XUGSABuildAutomation
Xamarin Dev Days Cape Town was definitely one of the prettiest dev days in world. Thanks to all that came!
I’m so proud to have been part of bringing Xamarin Dev Days to Africa for the first time. May there be many more!!
What the day entailed:
Xamarin Dev Days Agenda
09:00 AM – 09:30 AM Registration
09:30 AM – 10:10 AM Intro Xamarin presentation
10:20 AM – 11:00 AM Cross-platform Xamarin presentation
11:10 AM – 11:50 AM Cloud Xamarin presentation
12:00 PM – 12:45 PM Lunch
12:45 PM – 1:30 PM Sponsor speaker slot (Zebra)
01:30 PM – 16:30 PM Hackathon Challenge Walkthrough
Local Organizers & Xamarin Experts
Special thanks to the sponsors:
Microsoft South Africa http://www.microsoft.com
Zebra Technologies http://www.zebra.com
MLab https://www.mlab.co.za/
AD Software Systems http://www.adsoftsystems.co.za
The event in pictures:
The turnout at Xamarin Dev Days Johannesburg was amazing!! Thanks to all that came.
I’m so proud to have been part of bringing Xamarin Dev Days to Africa for the first time. May there be many more!!
What the day entailed:
Xamarin Dev Days Agenda
09:00 AM – 09:30 AM Registration
09:30 AM – 10:10 AM Intro Xamarin presentation
10:20 AM – 11:00 AM Cross-platform Xamarin presentation
11:10 AM – 11:50 AM Cloud Xamarin presentation
12:00 PM – 12:45 PM Lunch
12:45 PM – 1:30 PM Sponsor speaker slot (Zebra)
01:30 PM – 16:30 PM Hackathon Challenge Walkthrough
Local Organizers & Xamarin Experts
Special thanks to the sponsors:
Microsoft South Africa http://www.microsoft.com
Zebra Technologies http://www.zebra.com
MLab https://www.mlab.co.za/
AD Software Systems http://www.adsoftsystems.co.za
The event in pictures:
I’m very excited to be able to tell you we are brining Xamarin Dev Days to South Africa for the first time! It will also be held in two cities, Cape Town and Johannesburg.
We have our venues and sponsors organized, and more importantly the dates.
Please diarise!
Xamarin Dev Days Cape Town will be held on the 30th of September 2016. It will be held at Workshop 17 at the V&A.
Xamarin Dev Days Johannesburg will be held on the 23rd of September 2016. It will be held at the Microsoft Bryanston offices.
The awesome sponsors are:
Microsoft South Africa http://www.microsoft.com
Zebra Technologies http://www.zebra.com
MLab https://www.mlab.co.za/
AD Software Systems http://www.adsoftsystems.co.za
Without them, these events would definitely not be possible!! Thank you!
I received a question about how to Bind Pins to a Xamarin.Forms Map.
I created a code sample on Github:
https://github.com/apead/CTXUG/tree/master/30052016/FormsMapsSample
Happy Xamarin.Forms coding!
I’ve shared the content from the CTXUG (Cape Town Xamarin User’s group) event on the 19th of May. It was great reliving Xamarin Evolve 2016 with you.
The slide content can be found on Github:
https://github.com/apead/CTXUG/tree/2faa7c3b62e61da1552c8993c1f53cdfe36247c9/19052016
Hope to see you at the next event!
Finally arrived in Orlando after a long flight from Cape Town via Dubai. We are staying at the Fort Wilderness resort within Disney World. The whole family has come along with, so this is definitely going to be an amazing week of family fun and Xamarin!
Fort Wilderness is amazing. We are staying in log Cabins within a forest, a natural feel to it, but close enough to be in
the parks in a few minutes using the internal transit system. I am not too sure though what peak traffic is like Orlando to the Xamarin conference at the Hyatt Regency, but will leave early just incase.
Started the day with a trip to the Hollywood and then the Magic Kingdom. Plenty of magic and also Star Wars which makes the whole family very happy.
Need some rest now before the big kick off of Xamarin Evolve 2016!!
With Microsoft Build 2016 complete, there are so many things to be looking at and trying out. One of the more useful features for me right now is the new remoting functionality in Windows 10 IoT Insider Preview 10.0.14295. I have this running on a Raspberry Pi 3 and I am busy with some work using an array of sensor telemetry. Being able to see what is happening remotely make life far easier when building Universal Apps.
To configure this is very simple. There is a new menu option added to the administration console called “Remote”. This is accessible via the URL: http://[ipaddress of pi]:8080. If you haven’t changed the password the login should be: “Administrator” and “p@ssw0rd”
Enable the Windows IoT Remote Server by ticking the box presented.
To access the Raspberry Pi remotely you need a client. This is available in the Windows Store either by following the provided link, or just by searching for “Windows IoT” in the store. https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9nblggh5mnxz
This will run on any Windows 10 device. Just something to note: on a Windows 10 Mobile device (Lumia 950 XL in my case) you may have to set the device color scheme to light for the application text to be legible. I’m sure this will be corrected in later builds.
Fill in the IP address of the Raspberry PI in the “Enter an IP address” text box and click / tap “Connect”. You should now be seeing what the Raspberry Pi is displaying.
