PRESENTATIONS
Why All of the Cool Kids Are Talking Xamarin – Stephen Kennedy | DDD Melbourne
Is your Twitter timeline a-buzz with talk of Xamarin, PCL’s, and Mono? Do you want to know why both Microsoft and the open source community is pushing this development product? Do you feel left out? Then this is the presentation for you! In this presentation Stephen will walk you through a cross-mobile application (Android, iOS,…
Getting Started with SignalR | Dev Superpowers Episode #3 | David Burela
In Episode 3 of the Dev SuperPower series, you’ll learn how … SignalR enables real time communications between a client & server. Rather than a client polling for updates, the server can now push updates to the client (weather updates, footy scores, etc.) Sign up now to be part of future webinars in the series. [WATUPRO…
Octopus Deploy and how to stop deploying like an idiot – Damian Brady | DDD Melbourne
Ever had your site go down because Jim accidentally copied over the web.config? Ever broken out into a cold sweat because you forgot the where the clause was in a production update script? Well stop deploying like an idiot. Deploying applications has traditionally been one of the most dangerous parts of software development. It’s often…
Taking other people’s money: The state of payments in Australia – Ben Cull | DDD Melbourne
In the presentation, Ben Cull shows developers the best ways to take other people’s money, whether it be for a large client or your own side project. He talks about the history of online payment processing, the regulations for developers, the pros and cons of Stripe, Paypal, Pin Payments and Alipay including an assessment of…
How to go on the Cyber-Offence (before online attackers do) – Troy Hunt | DDD Melbourne
In this session, Troy Hunt – Security MVP and founder of ASafaWeb – takes us on a journey through cyber security. Cyber-attacks on the web are increasingly common and are having greater impact than ever. However, they’re almost always exploiting the same common vulnerabilities that we – the developers – keep building into the software.…
Introduction to iBeacons with Xamarin – Rod Howarth
Developers have been using GPS and WiFi location detection to enhance their mobile applications and reduce the amount of input required by users by detecting where the user is at a given point in time. However these location detection techniques can only give an accuracy of approximately 10 metres, and are unreliable when the user…
TFS Extensibility with Damian Brady
Have you ever wanted Team Foundation Server to do X? You probably can! In this demo-heavy, interactive session, we’ll look at the many different options you have for extending TFS to get even more out of the product, including the brand new REST API and Web Hooks features just released at Tech Ed North America.…
A Xamarin.Forms Deep Dive
In this session Michael Ridland takes a in depth look at Xamarin.Forms and answers the hard questions. Watch this session if you want to know: How the Xamarin.Forms magic works? Can Xamarin.Forms work in serious applications? How you can push the limits of Xamarin.Forms? How to use Mvvm with Xamarin.Forms? A must watch for all…
Introduction to Xamarin – Filip Ekberg
In this session, Filip Ekberg provides us with a look at what Xamarin is, what problem does it solve and why it is important for your business. He later dives into how easily you can create a mobile application that runs on iOS, Android and Windows Phone devices. This session is part of a new…