MVVM and Prism in Xamarin Forms
May 18th, 2017
Host & Sponsor: ILM Professional Services

*** ATTENTION: We have shifted the start time for this meeting! We will now start our social time at 5:30 and presentations will begin at 6:00! This is our plan for this meeting and all other meetings moving forward. Please let us know if you have questions/concerns. Thanks! ***

Join us for our May event sponsored and hosted by ILM Professional Services in Edina. This is a FREE event and a great opportunity for networking and the latest insights in mobile development.

RSVP Here: Minnesota Enterprise Mobile

May Topic – MVVM and Prism in Xamarin Forms

MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) is a popular design pattern for cross-platform applications, taking advantage of XAML binding to decouple UI and application logic. Although Xamarin Forms supports some facets of MVVM out of the box, a mature framework like Prism – first developed by Microsoft for WPF applications – facilitates development and gets you closer to true separation of concerns.

This talk will cover the basics of MVVM, how Prism implements it and how it differs from Xamarin Forms, and major changes in the recent 6.3 release.

Presented by Katy Shimizu
Katy Shimizu is a Consultant for Improving Twin Cities who loves well-architected systems and the patterns that make them so. She specializes in mobile and cloud development and has been working with Xamarin since 2015. Prior to software development she performed chemical research and trained falcons, though not at the same time.

About the Group
Led by local developers, the Minnesota Enterprise Mobile User Group is a place to come together to share knowledge, experiences, and lessons learned with the development community regarding enterprise mobile development, with a focus on mobile cross-platform application development and the Xamarin toolset. Our goal is to cover all areas of the Enterprise Mobile landscape.

Thursday, May 18th
5:30 – 6:00pm: Social time featuring good food and beverages
6:00 – ~7:30pm: Presentation and discussion

Location
ILM Professional Services
5221 Viking Drive
Edina, MN 55435

** Free on-site parking is available **

Hosted and sponsored by ILM Professional Services.

Tool Chains for API Design
April 20th, 2017
Host & Sponsor: ILM Professional Services

*** ATTENTION: We have shifted the start time for this meeting! We will now start our social time at 5:30 and presentations will begin at 6:00! This is our plan for this meeting and all other meetings moving forward. Please let us know if you have questions/concerns. Thanks! ***

Join us for our April event sponsored and hosted by ILM Professional Services in Edina. This is a FREE event and a great opportunity for networking and the latest insights in mobile development.

RSVP Here: Minnesota Enterprise Mobile on Meetup

April Topic – Tool Chains for API Design

Do you find that your teams don’t create consumable APIs…so much as private handshakes between mobile apps and a server tier?  When you look to have other teams consume your services, are you challenged by the documentation you have – or the fuzziness of the contracts in place?   This talk will focus on how to address that, and how to target first-class APIs versus “yet another endpoint” to support.  We’ll look at tools to help you accomplish this at the design, build, test, and operational phases.

Presented by Scott Colestock
Scott Colestock is a long-time independent contractor in the Twin Cities.  He focuses on mobile and cloud architecture with startups and enterprises alike, with companies including LiquidSpace, AgriSync, Riptide, and Polaris Industries.

About the Group
Led by local developers, the Minnesota Enterprise Mobile User Group is a place to come together to share knowledge, experiences, and lessons learned with the development community regarding enterprise mobile development, with a focus on mobile cross-platform application development and the Xamarin toolset. Our goal is to cover all areas of the Enterprise Mobile landscape.

Thursday, April 20th
5:30 – 6:00pm: Social time featuring good food and beverages
6:00 – ~7:30pm: Presentation and discussion

Location
ILM Professional Services
5221 Viking Drive
Edina, MN 55435

** Free on-site parking is available **

Hosted and sponsored by ILM Professional Services.

Introduction to Mobile App Security
March 16th, 2017
Host & Sponsor: ILM Professional Services

Join us for our March event sponsored and hosted by ILM Professional Services in Edina. This is a FREE event and a great opportunity for networking and the latest insights in mobile development.

RSVP Here: Minnesota Enterprise Mobile on Meetup

March Topic – Introduction to Mobile App Security

This talk will introduce and cover common mobile application security flaws. This includes iOS and Android fundamentals, some common vulnerabilities, testing techniques, and how to fix these issues. We will also discuss both targeting mobile devices and using mobile devices as an attack platform.

Presented by Jake Bernier
Jake is a Red Teamer at a local Fortune 500 company where he tinkers and challenges security practices. He also enjoys his time after hours as an adjunct teacher at a local college teaching the techniques of penetration testing.

About the Group
Led by local developers, the Minnesota Enterprise Mobile User Group is a place to come together to share knowledge, experiences, and lessons learned with the development community regarding enterprise mobile development, with a focus on mobile cross-platform application development and the Xamarin toolset. Our goal is to cover all areas of the Enterprise Mobile landscape.

Thursday, March 16th
6:00 – 6:30pm: Social time featuring good food and beverages
6:30 – ~8:00pm: Presentation and discussion

Location
ILM Professional Services
5221 Viking Drive
Edina, MN 55435

** Free on-site parking is available **

Hosted and sponsored by ILM Professional Services.

Push Notifications using AWS Lambda and Urban Airship
February 16th, 2017
Host & Sponsor: ILM Professional Services

Join us for our February event sponsored and hosted by ILM Professional Services in Edina. This is a FREE event and a great opportunity for networking and the latest insights in mobile development.

RSVP Here: Minnesota Enterprise Mobile on Meetup

February Topic – Push Notifications using AWS Lambda and Urban Airship

In this presentation we will walkthrough the use of AWS Lambda to bridge a web service and Urban Airship to create user customizable article rich notifications for Barron’s for iOS.

Presented by Dan Edgar
Dan Edgar is a Principal Consultant with ILM Professional Services in Edina, MN. His primary experience is in native front end development for Windows and iOS using C#, XAML, Objective-C and Swift. He is currently working for Dow Jones on Barron’s for iOS. When you don’t find him out fixing someone’s computer, you can find him at the back of the pack at a half-marathon event near you.

About the Group
Led by local developers, the Minnesota Enterprise Mobile User Group is a place to come together to share knowledge, experiences, and lessons learned with the development community regarding enterprise mobile development, with a focus on mobile cross-platform application development and the Xamarin toolset. Our goal is to cover all areas of the Enterprise Mobile landscape.

Thursday, February 16th
6:00 – 6:30pm: Social time featuring good food and beverages
6:30 – ~8:00pm: Presentation and discussion

Location
ILM Professional Services
5221 Viking Drive
Edina, MN 55435

** Free on-site parking is available **

Hosted and sponsored by ILM Professional Services.

Mobile Localization Strategies and General Q&A
January 19th, 2017
Host & Sponsor: ILM Professional Services

Join us for our January event sponsored and hosted by ILM Professional Services in Edina.  This is a FREE event and a great opportunity for networking and the latest insights in mobile development.

RSVP Here:  Minnesota Enterprise Mobile on Meetup

January Topic – Mobile Localization Strategies and General Q&A

QONQR (pronounced Conquer) is a mobile game built using Xamarin. This 2 developer company supports applications on Windows Phone, Android and iPhone with a complex Azure cloud platform. QONQR is now available in 7 languages, with translations crowdsourced from the players. In this talk we’ll discuss the challenges of supporting an application in multiple languages, UI design, translator coordination, and the unexpected technical challenges.  Out of the box solutions available in .Net can cause significant negative side effects. We’ll discuss how to avoid them and will demo how to integrate the Microsoft Multilingual App Toolkit into your cross platform solution.  Finally, there will be plenty of opportunity to ask any question on this 2.5 year Xamarin Forms project.  The application interface is so custom, not a single Xamarin Forms Button control exists in the application.  Nearly every control has been custom built from raw UI elements or extended to allow for maximum control of both style and performance.  Come prepared for a candid Q&A discussion of what works well and what doesn’t, when you push Xamarin Forms to the maximum limit of its capabilities.

Presented by Scott Davis
Scott is the CEO and lead cloud + mobile developer for QONQR, a 2-person mobile gaming company in Minneapolis, Minnesota. QONQR (pronounced Conquer) is the GeoSocial game of World Domination. Players battle to capture and control their home towns and surrounding cities. Today QONQR players have captured over a million towns and cities in every country in the world. QONQR players now control over 35% of the populated earth. Prior to QONQR, Scott spent over a decade as a software consultant, business analyst, and project manager, including time as a district manager overseeing 50 direct reports. Scott holds an MBA with an emphasis in Venture management and is a former adjunct professor in the Information Technology Management master’s program at St Mary’s University.

About the Group
Led by local developers, the Minnesota Enterprise Mobile User Group is a place to come together to share knowledge, experiences, and lessons learned with the development community regarding enterprise mobile development, with a focus on mobile cross-platform application development and the Xamarin toolset. Our goal is to cover all areas of the Enterprise Mobile landscape.

Thursday, January 19th
6:00 – 6:30pm: Social time featuring good food and beverages
6:30 – ~8:00pm: Presentation and discussion

Location
ILM Professional Services
5221 Viking Drive
Edina, MN 55435

** Free on-site parking is available **

Hosted and sponsored by ILM Professional Services.

Encryption Fundamentals and Mobile Code Signing
November 17th, 2016
Host & Sponsor: Frank Markovich of FrankoSystems
Venue: Bald Man Brewing

Join us for our November event sponsored and hosted by Frank Markovich of FrankoSystems at Bald Man Brewing in Eagan.  This is a FREE event and a great opportunity for networking and the latest insights in mobile development.

RSVP Here: Minnesota Enterprise Mobile on Meetup

November Topic – Encryption Fundamentals and Mobile Code Signing

Mobile Software development introduces code signing concepts that many developers have never had to deal with: developer certificates, provisioning profiles, signed applications, etc. Just how does all this work?  At the heart of it all is encryption and in this session we’ll:

Explore conceptually what’s really going on behind the scenes.

Go over encryption basics.

What are Public/Private keys and how they work.

How the app stores use digital signing.

Presented by Kyle Estes
Kyle Estes is a long time software developer and former race car driver.  He was on the original team that developed the Polaris Ride Command mobile app written in Xamarin and currently is the Lead Data Architect at Polaris.

About the Group
Led by local developers, the Minnesota Enterprise Mobile User Group is a place to come together to share knowledge, experiences, and lessons learned with the development community regarding enterprise mobile development, with a focus on mobile cross-platform application development and the Xamarin toolset. Our goal is to cover all areas of the Enterprise Mobile landscape.

Thursday, November 17th
6:00 – 6:30pm: Social time featuring catered in food and drink token
6:30 – ~8:00pm: Presentation and Discussion

Location
Bald Man Brewing
2020 Silver Bell Rd #25
Eagan, MN 55122

** Free on-site parking is available **

Hosted and sponsored by Frank Markovich of FrankoSystems at Bald Man Brewing.

Get Started with Data Cleaning and Mobile Apps with the Battle of Midway
September 15th, 2016
Host & Sponsor: ILM Professional Services

Join us for our September event sponsored and hosted by ILM Professional Services in Edina.  This is a FREE event and a great opportunity for networking and the latest insights in mobile development.

RSVP Here: Minnesota Enterprise Mobile

September Topic – Get Started with Data Cleaning and Mobile Apps with the Battle of Midway

What could the Battle of Midway, Data Cleaning, Machine Learning, C#/.NET, Xamarin.iOS, and MKMapView all possibly have in common? Attend this session to see how the book /Miracle at Midway/ by Gordon W. Prange (et. al) started a software engineer down the still unfulfilled path of using C#, SQLite, Regular Expressions, System.Xml.Linq, Stanford Named Entity Recognizer, Google reverse geolocation services, and pure blind luck, to do data cleaning against the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS) in an attempt to try and map history using MKMapView on iOS.

Presented by Dan Edgar
Dan Edgar is working as a Principal Consultant for ILM Professional Services out of Edina, MN. Throughout his career he has worked on everything from old school Windows applications in C++ to modern UWP apps in C# / XAML, along with modern iOS applications using Objective-C, Swift, and/or Xamarin / C#, along with many Javascript web apps and micro-services in-between. When not fixing someone’s computer you can find him running at the back of the pack at your local half-marathon event.

About the Group
Led by local developers, the Minnesota Enterprise Mobile User Group is a place to come together to share knowledge, experiences, and lessons learned with the development community regarding enterprise mobile development, with a focus on mobile cross-platform application development and the Xamarin toolset. Our goal is to cover all areas of the Enterprise Mobile landscape.

Thursday, September 15th
6:00 – 6:30pm: Social time featuring good food and beverages
6:30 – ~8:00pm: Presentation and discussion

Location
ILM Professional Services
5221 Viking Drive
Edina, MN 55435

Hosted and sponsored by ILM Professional Services.

IoT with your Xamarin Mobile App
August 18th, 2016
Host & Sponsor: ILM Professional Services

Join us for our August event sponsored and hosted by ILM Professional Services in Edina.  This is a FREE event and a great opportunity for networking and the latest insights in mobile development.

RSVP here: Minnesota Enterprise Mobile

August Topic – IoT with your Xamarin Mobile App

What does it look like to combine your Xamarin mobile experience with a low-cost internet connected device, using protocols like MQTT?  This talk will dive into that topic, including a brief discussion of IoT backends that can be used for brokering and data ingestion.

Presented by Scott Colestock
Scott Colestock has been contracting independently in the Twin Cities for the last decade or so.  Most recently, he’s been involved in startups such as LiquidSpace and Farm Intelligence, focused on both mobile and cloud architecture.  He has shipped a showcase Xamarin app or two in the past, and is currently happy to be working with the technology again with current clients.

About the Group
Led by local developers, the Minnesota Enterprise Mobile User Group is a place to come together to share knowledge, experiences, and lessons learned with the development community regarding enterprise mobile development, with a focus on mobile cross-platform application development and the Xamarin toolset. Our goal is to cover all areas of the Enterprise Mobile landscape.

Thursday, August 18th
6:00 – 6:30pm: Social time featuring good food and beverages
6:30 – ~8:00pm: Presentation and discussion

Location
ILM Professional Services
5221 Viking Drive
Edina, MN 55435

Hosted and sponsored by ILM Professional Services.