I had the great pleasure of chatting with Microsoft RD Patrick Hynds and I contributed a few quotes to his latest article in SD Times Magazine on Azure. We talked about how Xamarin fits nicely into this scenario. Xamarin has an Azure Mobile Services Component in the Xamarin Component Store.
Enjoy a good read at:
http://sdtimes.com/follow-azure-road-cloud/
Xamarin is specifically mentioned on page 9:
http://sdtimes.com/follow-azure-road-cloud/9/
Also, announcing Monthly payments for Indie!
I had the great pleasure presenting Xamarin Forms at the recent Tampa Code Camp. This event was resurrected from a one year hiatus and a welcome site to the Tampa Developer Community. Many are looking forward to a bigger and better code camp as part of a very engaged developer community here in Tampa next year.
Personally, this was a huge moment in the next chapter of my career as well. I delivered my first Xamarin Session, concluding with three weeks of intense training and setup. It was a culture shock, of sorts, for me to present on a Mac and I joked about it that it was more of a challenge for me to learn a Mac than learn Xamarin! The Mac is a better presenting machine in that there are fewer moving parts to demonstrate iOS development. I still use my Windows machine to develop on. Anyway, it all turned out good as about 60 in my session learned about the Xamarin Platform and Xamarin Forms. For most of the audience, it was their first exposure to Xamarin.
Here are is PowerPoint for the session: http://1drv.ms/1AbKxPp
First photo of Russ as a Xamarin Developer Evangelist in Action! (Thanks Scott Dorman!)
It was a packed house! Greg Leonardo was working on my AV here. It is funny, I once did that for him a few years back at one of his sessions. Full circle, huh?
First Demo, Xamarin Forms Hello World in iOS, Android, and Windows Phone. This got a big warm round of applause!
Russ with Greg Leonardo, Head organizer of Tampa Code Camp.
Fox News has a great piece on the code camp: http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/story/26016891/code-camp-brings-developers-together
Download Xamarin today at www.xamarin.com
Follow my new Twitter @RussFustino
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Hello all! I am happy to announce I am the new Developer Evangelist for Xamarin! I am so excited about this next chapter in my career. I am looking forward to learning and teaching one of the hottest set of software products on this planet, which will help the lives of many fellow geeks! It is a very rewarding position indeed and I am on cloud 9. Everyone I have met at Xamarin is awesome and I look forward getting to know the entire team.
For those that unfamiliar on what Xamarin does… we produce software for programmers which facilitates creating the same mobile app, natively, on multiple platforms such as Windows Phone, Android and iOS. It is a ‘must have’ tool in the industry with some incredible recent announcements on the new version Xamarin 3.
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I will be traveling up to the Boston Xamarin office on occasion and I look forward to seeing all the “Shed Heads” back home. So, New England crew, get those lobsters ready!
And of course, I will be hitting up all the conferences for speaking engagements in and around Florida and all over the country. Drop me an email if you are interested in having me speak at your user group or conference. My new email at Xamarin is russell.fustino@xamarin.com .
I also setup a new twitter @RussFustino with my actual name (about time huh?). Please follow! I will have more details on my Xamarin blog once it gets set up. Stay tuned and follow me on twitter. Thanks!
Gary has been nominated for the Good Burger award in St. Pete for “Cool Companies – Small” as Design For Communication. He has contributed much in the community including being an active member of our user groups and design for several Windows Phone and Windows 8 apps.
Gary is spreading the word to vote for him to become a winner in the St Pete’s Chamber Good Burger Award contest! And this a quite an honor. Voting starts today and runs thru July 17 and we would appreciate your support.
Go to: www.stpete.com/goodburger and cast your vote. “Design For Communication” is in the category “Cool Companies – Small”. It only takes a few seconds to vote.
Thank you for all you do in the community, too.
Also, please joins us on Aug 28 at Jannus Live for the award party from 6-9pm with 5 bands. Non-Member Attendee = $20.
Gary Fustino
· St Pete Chamber & Midstate Chamber – Ambassador
· Bluffs Business Association – eServices Director
· Member of Tampa Bay Computer Society
· Member/Participant of Visual Design League, Tampa Bay Win Dev, Win Phone 8, DevUp, Tampa & Sarasota BarCamp/CodeCamp, Xamarin MeetUp
· Former Employee of the New York State Council on the Arts
· Buffalo Art Directors Club
I had the great pleasure of attending the Xamarin user group in Tampa the other night. Xamarin 3 was recently announced on May 28, 2014. James Montemango, Developer Evangelist for Xamarin, delivered a killer online session for the Tampa Xamarin User Group. The folks at the meeting were very appreciative of the fact that James took the time to present to us. We had a packed house at the AgileThought office to see all the new features of Xamarin 3. Wow. Everyone was blown away. I overheard one attendee saying on the very next day, he would pitch to his boss to get Xamarin licenses for entire staff at his company. So, I guess it was a successful meeting! Special thanks go to Michael Stark for heading up the new group and organizing this meeting with James.
James Montemagno delivered a session to Tampa from Seattle on Wednesday night at the Tampa Xamarin User Group.
MVPs Kevin Wolf and yours truly, Russ Fustino were in the house.
James gave a quick overview of Xamarin and covered the Xamarin Designer for iOS as well as Xamarin Studio & Visual Studio Enhancements.
Local developer, Imaya Kumar, then showed off the new Xamarin Forms!
Here are my notes from the meeting:
Birthday Cake and Pizza were provided by Xamarin!
Major elements in Xamarin 3
Xamarin Designer
Xamarin Studio
Visual Studio and Xamarin Studio
Easy code sharing
Miscellaneous
Auto Crop (uses automatic face detection in iOS): provides real time update in designer.
Sepia filter:
Xamarin Forms:
Besides the Xamarin Birthday cake, Xamarin Forms was the topic I was the most excited about! Can you imagine using shared code for multiple platforms. Wow!
With Xamarin Forms you can…
Pages, Layouts and Controls oh my!
I am about to update my Tull Tribute Windows Phone app (to be renamed Jethro Tull, which is endorsed with Tull assets). There is no doubt in my mind when porting to iOS and Android, I will be using Xamarin to to this.
If you missed the meeting, don’t worry… here are links to the deck and a recording of the announcement of Xamarin 3. The video features Xamarin’s Nat Friedman, CEO and Co-Founder, Miguel de Icaza, CTO and Co-Founder and James Montemagno, DE.
See more details of the Xamarin 3 Announcement:
http://blog.xamarin.com/announcing-xamarin-3/
Download Xamarin:
http://xamarin.com/
Webinar recording:
https://xamarin.wistia.com/medias/dnm9rouaer
Webinar slides:
http://www.slideshare.net/Xamarin/say-hello-to-xamarin-3