dotnet miami - august 16, 2012 - windows 8 app walkthrough
DESCRIPTION
A team of developers from dotNet Miami recently participated in the Windows 8 Hackation. The output of the event was a Windows 8 dotNet Miami event application. We'll relive our experiences from the Hackathon, review the application and code. We'll also show the server app which consists of Nancy and RavenDB (a NoSQL database). Come with your questions and your curiosity as we review this application full of new technology.TRANSCRIPT
dotNet Miami Windows 8 Hackathon Team
Windows 8 App WALKTROUGH
The Team
Cecil Phillip
Dave Nicolas
Egbert Chiong
Horacio Nunez
Rachel Terman
Richie Rump
Ross Terman
The Idea
Build a Windows 8 App for dotNet Miami that displayed our events and the events of other community groups..
Shindy
The Idea
The Idea
• Windows 8 App: XAML and C#• Service Layer: C# and Nancy• Data Layer: RavenDB• Host: AppHarbor• Source Control: GitHub• Task Management: Trello.com• Development Methodology: Scrum• Continuous Testing, Integration and
Delivery
App Architecture
• An App that loaded event data from JSON into RavenDB
• A web service that reads from RavenDB
• Design of the Windows 8 App
What we had before the Hackathon
Team Expectations
Hackathon – The Start
• Install Issues• VM Performance• Coding on a tablet!• Continuous Integration/Deployment in
the cloud• Differences in working local vs the
cloud.• Agile• Other Challenges
Experiences with Windows 8
Stop! Demo Time!
Thank You!
Shindy@Githubhttp://github.com/dotnetmiami/ShindyRavenDBhttp://ravendb.net/Trellohttp://trello.comNancyFXhttp://nancyfx.org/Windows 8 Apps Resourceshttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/br229512.aspxNCrunchhttp://www.ncrunch.net/xUnithttp://xunit.codeplex.com/
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