Tampere Windows /

Windows Phone Meetup24th October 2012

#trewin

Who am I Juha Ristolainen, juha.ristolainen@iki.fi

@Riussi on Twitter, App.net, and pretty much every other place

Working as a consultant for Futurice Oy and my own company Codemancers

Oy

Member of the board at Devaamo Ry

Candidate for city council in the municipal electios (number 75)

Been working with different mobile technologies for over 10 years

Symbian, Bada, Maemo, MeeGo, iPhoneOS, iOS, Android, Windows Mobile, Windows

Phone

Usually starting from day 1

For the last year been working a lot with Windows 8 as well

So what’s this all about? There have been lots of meetups (MeeGo, Qt, Jolla, WebDev, etc) around

Devaamo

Purpose of the 1st meetup

Gauge the interest and need for a non-affiliated meetup around Microsoft

technologies similar to Devaamo activities

Areas of interest:

Windows Phone 7 and 8

Windows 8, WinRT, C#, C++, HTML+JavaScript, DirectX

Microsoft Azure

Community-based, it’s all about you

Anyone can organize a meetup, hackathon, etc. around a topic. Just ping me and

I’ll add it to meetup.com. 1st year of Meetup.com sponsored by Futurice Oy.

Agenda

Introduction by Juha Ristolainen, Futurice/Codemancers

Why Develop for Windows Phone by Teemu Tapanila, AppCampus

Windows 8 + JavaScript, Does it really suck? By Jouni Kaplas / Futurice

Update of Windows 8 developer ecosystem in Tampere by Karl Ots / Symbio