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It’s been quite some time since I had the chance to speak publicly and I Read more
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Only a few days left till Athens Global Azure Bootcamp and the scheduled has been Read more
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Yes, it’s that time of the year, just two days left for the largest IT Read more
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Last month I had the opportunity to speak at a Microsoft event about best patterns Read more
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With Global Windows Azure Bootcamp only a few days away I just received confirmation of Read more
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Registrations for the Global Windows Azure bootcamp in Athens are now open. Now is the Read more
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What an honor being part of this team running the largest Tech event in Greece. Preparations Read more
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Great news arrived this week, I’ve been selected to participate as a product subject matter expert Read more
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Last week I attended TechEd Europe 2012 held in Amsterdam. This was my 6th TechEd but my first time in Amsterdam and the experience was, as always, great. Although there weren’t any announcements (the announcements were made earlier this month) most of the content presented had something new to teach, a small surprise for every [...]
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A couple of weeks back I had the chance to speak at a Microsoft Dev Day event about all the cool new features announced for windows azure June release and especially those that had to do with IaaS. The room was packed and everyone seemed very interested on these long awaited new features. I had [...]
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Microsoft patterns & practices symposiums are held regularly in the U.S. and abroad, with top speakers on current topics. Most of the speakers are from Microsoft patterns & practices (p&p) team. The event is aimed primarily at software architects, developers, and technical managers. Patterns & practices develops applied engineering guidelines to help software developers and [...]
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Microsoft patterns & practices symposiums are held regularly in the U.S. and abroad, with top speakers on current topics. Most of the speakers are from Microsoft patterns & practices (p&p) team. The event is aimed primarily at software architects, developers, and technical managers. Patterns & practices develops applied engineering guidelines to help software developers and architects build great solutions on the Microsoft platform.
The April 24th online p&p symposium program 2012 will include keynote sessions and technical sessions focusing on building scalable applications in Azure, mobile development, node.js, CQRS, .NET Gadgeteer and a general overview of p&p roadmap.*
Planned Schedule: *
All sessions will be streamed live, but we will also record them all for those unable to attend the event.
* Currently planned and approved sessions. Topics and times subject to change. All times pacific.
Twitter hashtag #pnpsym
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This weekend I had a chance to participate in the first Athens Windows Mobile 7.5 Hackathon. This was the first time Microsoft hosted an event that aimed in helping and encouraging developers in building actual applications and I have to say that I was really impressed with the participation and outcome.
I’m guessing that more than 150 developers patiently attended the whole two days event, listened to 20 mini tutorial style sessions and finally 32 of them came up with very interesting ideas and application for the windows mobile platform, although some of my favorite applications didn’t make the top 6 (I guess my criteria are different from the judging committee one’s 
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If you didn’t make it, you can catch a glimpse of what happened from the following image gallery.
I was assigned three slots where I presented
- Application Bar & System tray
- Isolated Storage
- Launchers and Choosers
- Live Tiles & Push notifications
You can find the slide decks as well as the demo code I used here:
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If you liked the IT Pro | Dev Connections 2010 ... get ready to upgrade to version 2011! The technical community of Greek IT professionals, autoexec.gr, in cooperation with the relevant community of developers, dotNETZone.gr, are joining forces once again and will present an event with five parallel catting edge technical tracks!
The event is exclusively focused on professionals and developers who don’t want to lose time in presentations of products with information that can be found on the Internet.
I’m also going to participate in the event with a talk which is going to be titled
“The Producer(s) - the most outrageous $1.000.000 scheme in the annals of... Windows Azure”
Here’s a small teaser of where the idea came from 
(more will follow)
Looking forward to seeing you there at the 26th and 27th of November 2011 in the Educational Centre of the National Bank of Greece!
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Yesterday I had the chance to talk about the Microsoft Windows Azure platform for a Microsoft hosted developers’ event called devdays.
I met and had a chance to chat with a lot of new faces which was very inspiring, as this means that more people become interested about cloud computing and Microsoft’s offering in this area, as time passes. What is more interesting is that many of them did not come from a Microsoft Computing background.
For those of you that couldn’t make it yesterday, I’m posting
my slide deck
and demos
Soon you’ll also be able to watch the recorded session from www.techdays.gr
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I had the chance to speak at a Microsoft event this month (on April 6th) about the new mobile phone development platform unfortunately and due to my blog maintenance I wasn’t able to blog about it. Now that everything is back in order though, I can let you know about it and share some of the event’s content with you.
The event had three sessions and a demo fest where developers presented their applications.
On the first session Dimitris Gkanatsios gave an intro to the platform and spoke about the Pivot control, sensors (GPS, Accelerometer, Vibration), HTML parsing, WCF, Media Library, Navigation, Launchers and choosers, Isolated Storage and briefly talked about the market place and how can someone upload an application.
On the second one I got to speak on more advanced topics like Data Binding, Panorama Pages, RSS, Video, Notifications, Application Bars, Application Lifecycle, and the Web Browser control. You can find my slide deck here.
The third session was about XNA and how someone can use it to build killer gaming apps in 2D and 3D for WP7and was given by Ioanins Panagopoulos.
In the demo fest slot I got the chance to speak about the news application I’ve developed for www.zougla.gr that is going to be published really soon.
If you missed the event, don’t worry you can still watch most of the sessions videos at www.techdays.gr really soon.
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Microsoft Hellas is holding a very interesting event in two weeks, on Thursday 12th of May, regarding application testing.
If you are interested to learn how to load test your application, how to use lab management using Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server then harry up and register.
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Yesterday I presented a 200 level session on Windows Azure over Live Meeting. This was the first of a three part series of Live Meetings regarding Microsoft’s Windows Azure Platform.
The session covered all of the fundamentals of Cloud Computing, the different types of cloud computing services (IAAS, PAAS, SAAS), and then went on discussing the Windows Azure Platform taking a deeper look into the Windows Azure OS (Computation, Storage, Management) namely Windows Azure.
For those of you that missed it there will be a recording available soon at www.techdays.gr. till then you can download the slide deck I used from my SkyDrive folder.
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Register now here in order to catch for the second one next week.
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Today we celebrated the new year in a special community event held at Microsoft Offices. First we had our usual discussions looking back at the community activities and then went on discussing what we could do more in order to engage more with the community. Finally we cut two cakes and two lucky guys woke out with an XBOX 360 with Kinect (unfortunately I wasn’t one of them).
I was able to stream and record most of this event through my tablet’s 3G network connection. The quality isn’t the best due to the connection speed, still you can still get a glimpse of what went on, even if you couldn’t make it today.
Watch live video from techaholics on Justin.tv
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I guess most of you will know by now that ItPro|DevConnections is holding a lottery for two msdn subscriptions for all of those that took advantage of the early bird offer and subscribed for the event before the 30th of September. Well, I was assigned to perform the lottery which is going to take place today. This got me thinking, What would be the easiest (don’t have time) and geekiest
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Great news arrived this week, once again I have been selected to participate in Tech·Ed Europe 2010 as a Microsoft Product Expert in the Technical Learning Center (TLC). I’m very excited and look forward for this. So if you're planning on attending this TechEd this year, ping me to have a chat with me ;-). See you all there...
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Next month, on the 27th - 28th of November, the Greek IT ( www.autoexec.gr ) and Developers ( www.dotnetzone.gr ) communities are going to host a two day, four track event for IT Professionals and Developers www.itprodevconnections.gr that need to get in touch with cutting edge technology, meet and discuss with fellow professionals and interact with a bunch of great speakers. This is
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Back from my holidays and straight to work. Reading through my emails though, I came by one where one of my friends have noticed that I’ve neglected to post my Silverlight Out Of Browser Applications presentation content. So with my deepest apologies here it is. < </iframe>
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On May 14 Microsoft Hellas is going to celebrate the release of Visual Studio 2010 in an event different from the other, in a party. So there won’t be long tiring tech sessions, just music, people, Pizzas, Beer and Visual Studio. So if you haven’t registered yet click now… I will be there answering question about life… ehmm I meant code so come see me and have a beer with me. P.S. Inside
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