The marketplace contains thousands of applications and you as a developer you are hopefully trying to add one more. It can seem like a daunting challenge to stand out, but with some careful planning and attention to detail users will see your application.
Over the course of the last 2 years, I have tried out a number of Agile project management tools. These tools are very important to us as we are often on distributed teams, given we have an office in Mohali, India. So although we follow an Agile approach to our custom dev projects, we cannot stick to the Agile commandment that all development and project resources should work in the same location . Therefore a simple and efficient Agile card board on the wall will not suffice. We need a tool that can be referenced not only by the internal development teams in Chicago and Mohali, but also often by the client as well. We emphasize an open and transparent approach to our client relationship, which means our clients can log in and see the progress whenever they wish. This includes joining the daily-stand ups if they want.
So here is a quick run through of the tools we have tried, and why we ended up settling on Agile Zen.
Triton-Tek’s Dave Arlin will be giving a talk on Thursday December 1, 2011 at 5:30 PM. Food and drink will be provided.
Add security to your application by using ASP.NET to handle external storage of data without worrying about security violations on your phone. Add performance to your application by allowing ASP.NET to handle 3rd party web service calls that require large amounts of data to be consumed or that require multiple calls to get retrieve your data. David Arlin of Triton-Tek will be discussing Windows Phone development with an ASP.NET MVC Service Layer, which will allow you do do all this and more! Conversation and snacks starting at 5:30, with the main presentation to begin at 6:00.
Register for the Meetup (id required at front desk of the building, if you miss registration feel free to show and we will come down to the lobby and let you in)
In this tutorial Triton-Tek’s in-house designer will step through how to make an icon in Expression Design. This is going to be a very visual tutorial on creating an icon for Windows Phone and assumes you have never opened Expression Design (Free for Students).
On the new document dialog type 48 for the width and height. Double check that pixel is set for the units and 96 px/inch is set for the resolution.
Continue reading → (external link)
Tomorrow is November 8th and while it doesn’t fall on the normal meetup day for the group we will be doing the monthly Chicago Windows Phone meetup. The topic is ‘Using Expression Blend in Windows Phone Development’ by Anthony Handley, a Senior Consultant and User Experience Practice Lead at Magenic.
Hope to see everyone there even with the day change. Be sure to register below so we can estimate the snack situation, but feel free to show up otherwise also and bring fellow developers (and because of the topic your designer friends).
Register for the Meetup (or show up)
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Suite 208
Chicago, Illinois 60654-5733
866-387-4866 (toll-free)
312-467-9201 (local)
312-467-9242 (fax)
info@triton-tek.com
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