Pure Imagination brings developers, designers, game builders, students, start-ups, and YOU are exploring the possibilities of Windows 8, beyond the features...to what can be accomplished when inspiration and technology intersect.
In less than 40 hours you'll get everything you need to make your vision into the next great Canadian app, including technical presentations, brainstorming sessions, hands-on labs, and access to industry experts for guidance and treated to spontaneous moments of fun to keep your energy up.
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Fundamentals of Creating an HTML5 Game
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 some specific ones, like Canvas, you need to know if you want to build a game using HTML5, CSS3, and...
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Virtual Machines, Getting Close to Bare Metal
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 you learn how to provision a few Windows and UNIX servers (hint: it's really easy) but also how to plan...
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Expression Blend for designing Windows Store apps using HTML5
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 visually appealing!) application that highlights how to work with styles, controls, data sources, layout,...
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The One About the Native HTML5 App on Windows 8
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 you. It's called IE10 (yes, we said "IE"). It's built around the...
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Designing for Touch
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 increases user confidence by making your app easier to learn and use. In this session, we will discuss how...
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Building Connected Windows Store Apps the Easy Way
So you've got a great idea and you know how to make a killer app but moving your crud to the cloud, dealing with schema and managing service endpoints just does not sound like fun. We hear you, and we agree! In this session you'll learn about a brand new feature in Microsoft's cloud service called Windows...
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Designing the Process with Talk, a Real-World Windows 8 App
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 8 device. We will also discuss the design process we used, how our designers interact with our developers...