Anti-Patterns are always lurking around the corner when designing apps. In fact, sometimes a well-intentioned pattern on one device or platform may not be a good fit for another. In this session we…

Building games is really exciting, but if you really want to give the best experience to your users, you also need to extend it thru Windows 8 specific features. Think about the live tiles, contact…

Building games is fun! Building web-deployed, device-friendly, multi-player games using bleeding-edge web standards is fun AND challenging. This session will explore the process andchallenges of…

We've all missed XNA on Windows 8 but Monogame has brought it back. Now we can continue to build fun indie games. Installing and running MonoGame is a little tricky and a few things have changed from…

You already created an HTML5 game, and you want to make it a Windows 8 game to get all the benefits of this new platform? The recipe is simple: take your HTML5 games, add some WinJS dressing, use…

Do you have an awesome game idea, but you don't know if you have everything it need to build it on Windows 8 with HTML5? There are plenty of new features with the latest version of HTML, but there are…

Jerome Carron demos a home-brewed home automation system running on Windows 8 (Surface) and Windows Phone 8.

Alnur Ismal showcases top Canadian Windows Store applications.

Grant Skinner is an interactive developer who uses wide variety of technologies from Flash to HTML5 to Windows 8 to build rich experiences. You will see demos of apps he has built such as Pirates Love…

Windows Azure has a ton of Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings but sometimes those just don't cut it, sometimes you need to be as close to the bare metal as possible. In this session not only will…

Ok you need to store some data, but where and how? Depending on what you want to store and how you want to access it there are a few options. Up first is big data where you'll learn about how to…

If you're working on Windows Phone, iOS or Android apps at some point you are going to likely need it to be connected to a backend service hosted somewhere in the cloud. In this session you'll learn…

Closing.

In Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Indiana is talking to the character called Short Round about a stone with special powers called the Sankara Stone. Short Round asks Indiana "What is…

Icons. Icons. Icons. Icons. Icons. Icons. Icons. Icons. Getting bored yet? We are. The computer experience has been invaded by a sea of icons. Minimalist logos that do provide you with a…

That thing where you build a phone app and you can just install it on a PC in addition to the phone you built the app for in the first place, yeah, it's not gonna happen. By now you may already know…

You're a web developer, you say? All about web standards, too? We'll bet you haven't (willingly) worked with the Microsoft web platform in years (or ever). Well, we have a really nice surprise for…

So you've heard of this thing called Windows 8. You've heard of Windows Store apps that utilize Microsoft's distinctive Modern UI. You think that it's an intriguing, new platform for apps and you…

You have all the tools at your disposal to design and build great quality Windows Store apps, so how do you start? Surprisingly it is simple, with paper and pencil. Sketching is a way to iterate…

As you know, there is a difference between theory and actually designing and building an app. This session will discuss how Macadamian built the Talk app which lets you watch Ted talks on your Windows…

Windows 8 provides a concise set of touch interactions used consistently throughout the system. Applying this language consistently makes your app feel familiar to what users already know. This…

Embrace the Windows 8 design principles by taking full advantage of the rich feature sets offered by both Blend and Visual Studio. Learn how to start from scratch and have a fully functioning (and…