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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What Exactly Is Windows Azure, Anyways?
In case you didn't know Windows Azure is kind of a big deal, and it keeps getting bigger. In this session you'll get a high level overview of Windows Azure as a Cloud provider as well as its offerings such as WebSites, Virtual Machines, Cloud Services, Service Bus & Mobile Services (just to name...
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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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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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Devices + Cloud == Winning
If you're working on Windows Phone, iOS or Android apps at some point you are going to likely need it to be connected to a backend service hosted somewhere in the cloud. In this session you'll learn about some Windows Azure services like Storage, Identity, Access Control, Caching, Traffic Manager and...
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Windows Azure Websites, Not Just Basic Hosting
Need a blog? E-commerce site? Maybe you just need somewhere to host your ASP.NET, node.js or PHP app? If this sounds like you and you are also interested in reliability, scalability and various deployment options then this session is indeed the right one. You'll leave this session with a comprehensive...
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Windows Azure Storage
Ok you need to store some data, but where and how? Depending on what you want to store and how you want to access it there are a few options. Up first is big data where you'll learn about how to handle massive & non-traditional data in Windows Azure. As one might expect we'll also talk about SQL...