Azure Mobile Services makes it easy to build a common backend for your multi-platform mobile applications.
Nick Hodge – Professional Geek and Microsoft employee talks about adding authentication, server logic, push notifications, scheduled tasks, data, logging and diagnostics to your multi-platform application, all in one common code base.
About the speakers
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Mr Azure Mobile
A Professional Geek for Microsoft, Nick has over 26 years of IT industry experience in a variety of evangelism, sales, technical, management, marketing and strategic roles. As a professional geek, occasional presenter, curmudgeon social networker and a closet workaholic, Nick just loves software technology & cats.
Nick is presently tasked with working with Australian developers who want to create great Apps for Windows 8 (and a little bit of Windows Phone and Windows Azure). Another key aspect of this role includes explaining what a Professional Geek from Microsoft actually does. Nick is an active developer contributor to open source projects in his spare time.