Orlando Windows Phone & Metro User Group Announces - Dark Sky API Developer App Contest!

Orlando Windows Phone & Metro User Group Announces - Dark Sky API Developer App Contest!   Are you a Florida based developer? Have some skills you're dying to show off? Well now is the time!  In support of the Florida .NET Development Community OrlandoWPUG is sponsoring a friendly contest of our development talent to find the best Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8 application using the Dark Sky API. Dark Sky is a new kind of weather app. It uses state-of-the-art weather forecasting to predict when it will rain or snow...

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Getting started with Windows Phone and MVVM Light - Part 1 of 2

CodeProject A few days ago, Rich Dunbar wrote a post about how to get started with with Windows Phone Development and the post went freaking viral. Now the reason here is that Rich, in his spare time, sponsors and host events for Nokia in order to promote Windows Phone Development and as a a reward will get you a Nokia Device and App Hub Token. A pretty nice prize for learning how to write apps for Windows Phone.  The post is a pretty good resource on where to get what you need to get started and how to get the prize. Here is an excert... Every...

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Orlando Windows Phone User Group - Kickoff Meeting

owpug.tattoocoder.com Wow what a great start to the new group in Orlando! First, let me start by thanking Voxeo  (@voxeo) for hosting the event.  What a great room, theater seating, barista on staff, great office space...very tech!  They do offer co-lo office space so hit them up if you are a startup and you need some space.  Almost every wall in this place is a whiteboard. Those chairs were awesome! Attendees included Windows Phone MVPs, authors, ComponentOne, Windows Phone Marketplace champs, newbies and even non Windows...

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