ATL March 2013 Windows Phone Jumpstart Followups
As promised here’s the various notes and questions from the Atlanta Windows Phone Jumpstart on Friday, March 8. I really appreciate everyone being there and asking such great questions. Since 80% of ya’ll were Android and iOS devs, it really made for some great dialogs.
SLIDES -https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=6CBDE5464FD99E70!24130&authkey=!AL6M_WxjN_I05uc
INCENTIVES
- Keep the Cash Contest - $100 per app - up to 10 - https://build.windowsstore.com/keepthecash/#fbid=6VlhhEw_nMx
- Student Apps - $100 per app - 16 and up - https://blogs.msdn.com/b/devfish/archive/2013/02/20/student-windows-8-app-madness-bounty-program.aspx
KEY LINKS
- Sign up for appbuilder - formerly known as genapp - https://bit.ly/30tolaunch
- Devfish's "Link hoarders" wiki - https://dfwiki.devfish.net - search wp7 and wp8
- Open source phone controls from Microsoft - https://phone.codeplex.com
- Awesome phone developer incentive program from Nokia - https://dvlup.com
- The guy who can get you access to the awesome phone developer program from Nokia - Lance McCarthy - Nokia Evangelist - https://nokiawpdev.wordpress.com/about/
- Windows Phone resource for Android devs - Android to Windows Phone Resources - https://windowsphone.interoperabilitybridges.com/porting
- Windows Phone resources for ios Devs - https://windowsphone.interoperabilitybridges.com/porting
GETTING STARTED WP8 RESOURCES - summarized at -
https://dfwiki.devfish.net/technology.Windows-Phone-8-Getting-Started.ashx?HL=wp8
WP 7.X DEV RESOURCES - for those who can't get the 8.x tools going - https://dfwiki.devfish.net/technology.Windows-Phone-Getting-Started-for-Developers.ashx?HL=wp7 or search https://dfwiki.devfish.net for "wp7"
LOCAL ATLANTA RESOURCES
- Georgia Microsoft Developer Evangelist Tara Walker - https://blogs.msdn.com/tarawalker - https://ohours.org/taraew - Twitter: @taraw Email: tara.walker@microsoft.com
- Atlanta Windows Apps Meetup - https://www.meetup.com/Atlanta-Windows-Apps/ - Joe Brown - jbrown9100@hotmail.com
- Life Lens App - https://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/lifelens-info/e8946c51-f65c-e011-854c-00237de2db9e - Imagine Cup winner that was mentioned - Malaria detection
WP8 <-> WIN8 Resource - https://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Building-Apps-for-Windows-Phone-8-Jump-Start-19-Windows-Phone-8-and-Windows-8-Cross-Platform-Develop
Azure Mobile Services for Authentication and Storage - https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/mobile/
