Mobility Touchdown for Architects and Developers

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If you're interested in Line of Business development for Windows Mobile devices and have 3 days to spare, come attend the Mobility Touchdown series of workshops that we're running around the US and later on other cities in the world (UK, Malaysia, Australia, India etc). These workshops will be held during the months of March through April.

The workshop is tailored for architects and developers who are / are thinking of building applications that run on Windows Mobile devices. We'll share the key concerns that other developers face today, show how you can overcome problems and share the learning we've collected over the years implementing these solutions for very large customers around the world.

This is what we're covering in the workshop:

  • Mobile Development Tools (Visual Studio, SDKs, Yes WM6 SDK included)
  • Mobile Data Strategies
  • Patterns & practices: Mobile Client Software Factory
  • Mobile Line of Business Solutions Accelerator
  • Mobile Test Driven Development
  • Visual Studio for Mobile Development
  • Orientation Aware Control
  • Debugging mobile applications
  • Mobile Managed Code and APIs
    • Pocket Outlook
    • Status
    • Configuration
    • Telephony
    • SMS
    • Forms
  • Mobile Data
    • Usage
    • Optimization
    • Merge Replication
    • XML
    • SQL Server Compact Edition
  • Mobile Data Resiliency
    • Data Access and Subscription Block
    • Connection Monitor
    • Disconnected Service Agent
  • Mobile Security
    • App security
    • Platform security
    • Password Auth Block

You can find out more about the workshop from here. Watch the page often to find out if new cities come on line. I have more in the works, like New York, Washington DC etc but not confirmed yet.

And just for you readers, if you're interested to attend and would like to get in for FREE, send me a mail (via link on top left) or leave a comment with your email.

 ** Update: Mike Temporale from smartphonethoughts.com correctly mentioned that we have only 6 cities listed down whereas we are planning 22 cities. We haven't list them down because we have not confirmed all the dates yet. Here's the list of cities we're working on:

    • Seattle, WA
    • Mountain View, CA
    • Los Angeles, CA
    • Chicago, IL
    • Memphis, TN
    • Detroit, MI
    • Cincinnati, OH
    • Dallas, TX
    • New York, NY
    • Washington, DC
    • Phoenix, AZ
    • Las Vegas, NV
    • Reading, UK
    • Sydney, Australia
    • Shanghai, China
    • Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    • Columbia
    • Mexico
    • Brazil
    • Spain
    • Netherlands
    • India