Silicon Valley Code Camp : October 9th and 10th, 2010

John Waters

About John
John Waters is the lead architect and developer of a number of high profile software products and solutions, including the Velocity ERP system, the HC Standard Critical Asset Tracking system, and numerous financial software systems. John has spoken at conferences all over the world on topics ranging from Parallel Computing to Windows Phone and Windows 8 development. Currently, John is working on Windows Azure Cloud Computing and Mobile Development. John previously founded and run several consulting companies in Sweden, and has worked at Falafel Software in California since 2003. John is a MVP.
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Speaking Sessions

  • WinPhone 7 and OData, building the Code Camp Viewer

    10:45 AM Sunday   Room: 5502
    <p>In this 101 session I will demonstrate how to build a simple Silverlight list application on the Windows Phone 7, which will download sessions and bookmark favorites from the OData feed of the Code Camp site. </p> <p>The application will manage its state using IsolatedStorage, and I will also demonstrate some best practices, like the use of MVVM, getting good quality Design Time data, tips and tricks for Asynchronous programming, and some gotchas on XML parsing.</p> <p>You will also be able to download and run the code yourself. This application will be available on the iPhone too at the conference to help you manage your attendance.</p>

  • Cross Platform Push Notifications in the Cloud

    2:45 PM Sunday   Room: 3403
    In this session, I will show you how to send Push Notification from an Azure Worker Role both to Windows Phone 7 clients, using MS Push Notifications, AND iPhone clients, using Apple Push Notifications.