Silicon Valley Code Camp : October 7 & 8, 2017

Track - Microsoft Development

Learn how to develop apps for the Microsoft platform. That platform includes apps written for the Microsoft HoloLens, the new Microsoft Dial and the fast growing Microsoft Bot framework. The Windows Store is a great place to deploy your apps to. Learn the top reason why the best developers are creating Microsoft apps right now.

Rock Your .NET Core Best Practices

David McCarter

In this sessions, you will learn how to apply .NET Framework best practices to .NET Core.

9 things every developer can do to be more inclusive

Tobiah Zarlez

The only thing stopping software from being inclusive is the developers. If they did these cost-effective things, they could increase their potential audience tremendously. This isn't about altruism, it's just good business practice.

TypeScript in Action

Doris Chen

TypeScript is used to build key frameworks like Angular. How TypeScript leverages features from the current and future of JavaScript will be illustrated. TypeScript 2.x, support for Angular, React, Node and type system, will be demonstrated.

Light up your app with the Composition API

Daren May

Managed developers now have direct access to the native graphics subsystem in Windows. enabling complex designs to be realized without compromising performance. But how? Leave this session with the confidence to build incredible apps.

The Psychology of Developer Tool Un-usability

Sara Ford

This is *not* a talk on proper UX design. What this talk will cover is what goes wrong cognitively (i.e. in the brain) when we try to design our own tools.

Developing for Mixed Reality and the HoloLens

Tobiah Zarlez

Holographic devices like the HoloLens brings with it a new wave of holographic development. This talk will cover how the basics of the device, how it works, and how you can start developing holographic applications today using Unity.

Dive into Bots

Doris Chen

This session explores bot capabilities, design patterns, knowledge based bots, handling user actions, how bots interact with websites/apps, and how hand off to human bot works. Bot demo, and code sample will be illustrated throughout the session.

Bots are the new enterprise apps.

Daniel Egan

Let you users interact with systems in the communication channels they prefer (Facebook, Slack, Kik, Skype, email, sms) in one integrated solution. In this session we will show you how to utilize the BotFramework to build bots for your enterprise

Building Solutions with the Microsoft Dial

Daren May

Microsoft Dial is an innovative extension to interact with apps, and the API is far more straight-forward than you might expect.

Getting Started as a Modern Windows Developer

Jerry Nixon

We’ll build an app together and you can gain the confidence to get started.

The Node.js Event Loop: Not So Single Threaded

Bryan Hughes

Come learn about the relationship between the threading, asynchronous function calls, the Node.js Event Loop, and performance.

Artificial Intelligence for everyone, even you

Jerry Nixon

We've made it. Science fiction is now science fact. In this session, let's look at the approach of this new age and how to make the most with the skills you already have.