Techdays 2016 slides & Recap

Last week 4 and 5th of October Microsoft organized Techdays in the Netherlands and the full Xpirit team was there as platinum sponsor. We organized lots of cool things such as the Techdays Minihack zone where people could get hands on expierence and compete for cool prizes.  Xpirit was also the supplier of the official Techdays app which we open sourced during Techdays. The source can be found here on github: Github App-evolve

@GeertvdC & @roycornelissen just open sourced the #TechDaysNL mobile app! Built by @Xpiritbv #sharingknowledge pic.twitter.com/BxrQdWCOwS

— Kees Verhaar (@kverhaar) October 5, 2016

As Xpirit we delivered 17 sessions and had 7 speakers on the event.  I delivered 2 sessions on Xamarin topics. Here are the slides for the sessions. The Videos are coming later (and will be in Dutch).

Xamarin Test cloud – From zero to hero in automated UI testing

Session abstract:

Looking at the mobile device landscape it became almost impossible to do manual testing on all types of devices that your customers use. Not even thinking about what your app looks like on some very rare Android devices. To ensure great quality of your apps you’ll have to introduce automated UI testing and Xamarin Test cloud can  be the tool for the job. During this session Geert will show how to  start building automated tests for mobile apps to demonstrate the features of Xamarin test cloud and how it could help you in your app development cycle. ‘Geert will give best practices and tips on what to test and what not to test and how to structure your tests. Join this session if you want to ensure your apps look great on all devices.

Slides:

Video: (in Dutch)

Techdays 2016 app: Behind the Scenes

Co-presenter: Roy Cornelissen

Session Abstract:

Every conference needs a good mobile app. During this session Roy and Geert will take you through the story of how they’ve built the Techdays 2016 app for iOS, Android and the Windows platform using Xamarin.Forms. They will show you cool stats of the app, it’s architecture, cool features we added and how we added them and lessons learned while building this app.

Slides:

Video: (in Dutch)

Next to all the cool sessions and minihacks we’ve delivered at Techdays we also launched a new issue of our magazine “Xpirit Magazine”. this magazine contains a lot of cool technical articles written by my colleagues and me. We handed out the magazine to everyone at Techdays but if you missed it you can still get a free copy (either pdf or FREE hardcopy)  here: xpir.it/magazine-3

articles covered:

CONTINUOUS DELIVERY 3.0
■ Continuous Delivery 3.0 – The next ‘next step’
■ Release management, from technical to functional practice
■ Infrastructure as Code
MOBILE
■ Mobile Innovation – Don’t wait for the ‘perfect’ app
■ Exploring the Microsoft Bot Framework
■ Continuous Delivery 3.0 for Mobile apps
ALM
■ Extending your Build and Release pipeline
■ Technical Debt you application Lifecycle
■ Doing testing right
CLOUD
■ Containers on the Microsoft platform: the full picture
■ Conquer the world with Azure Machine Learning
■ How to accelerate your choices using data

Hope to see you next year on Techdays. Xpirit will definitely be there!

Geert van der Cruijsen

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