Develop a Windows Mobile Game With Us!

On 12.09.09, In Game Development, News, By John Rockefeller
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The Guelph Coffee and Code user group is developing a Bit.Trip.Beat-style game for the Windows Mobile platform in the hopes of submitting it to the Race to the MarketPlace Challenge and winning a Microsoft Surface!

If you’re in the Guelph, Waterloo, Cambridge, and Kitchener area, here’s what you can do to help out:

  1. Sign up for an account at Assembla (a free team and project management tool with source control built-in)
  2. Get in contact with me via E-Mail and let me know how you’d like to help out
  3. Install Visual Studio if you haven’t got it already (note: cannot be Express Edition)
  4. Install both Windows Mobile 6 SDK and Windows Mobile 6.5 Refresh
  5. Come out to Coffee and Code on Thursday at 7:30pm (read about the weekly event)

I’ll be posting our progress here as well as my impressions of the Windows Mobile SDK since this is my first exposure to it as a developer.

Hope to see you there!

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Coffee and Code in Guelph

On 04.01.09, In News, Social Media, By John Rockefeller
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If you’re a developer looking for something to do on Tuesday nights, look no further: Coffee and Code has come to Guelph. We meet between 7:30pm and 9:30pm to network, discuss relevant programming topics, and get some work done. It’s a great opportunity to meet some like-minded individuals and work in a setting other than your usual lair. Bring your laptop and whatever else you’ll need to do your thing.

Cory Fowler began the Coffee and Code event in Guelph a few weeks ago and has been diligently building up some momentum with it. I think it’s been going for 5 weeks now. I started going on the third week.

Next meeting place: The Albion on Gordon St. Hopefully we’ll see you there!

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DemoCampGuelph9 – May 13, 2009 – Be there!

On 03.31.09, In Cool Apps, Cool Technology, News, Social Media, By John Rockefeller

Coming up fast is the next DemoCamp in Guelph. It’s scheduled for May 13th and this time it will be at the eBar on Quebec St. Attending the DemoCamp is completely free and definitely recommended if you’re into programming, new technology, servers, hardware, software, games, or anything else with computers. Usually there are drinks and food included, so come and have fun!

I’ve blogged about previous DemoCamps before, namely the 6th and 7th events here in Guelph. At both of those I presented — First for my own Jack of All Links site, then again later for GiantGoat’s content management system, Billy.

For more details on the upcoming DemoCampGuelph9 event, check out the DemoCampGuelph homepage.

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Snow day!

On 12.19.08, In News, By John Rockefeller

A great day for web development is on days like today; tons of snow and pretty reflections. While I was at work, Amy snapped this from our apartment:

From our apartment window

From our apartment window

For reference, here’s what it usually looks like:

Normally...

Normally...

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DemoCampGuelph6 was a lot of fun!

On 07.10.08, In Social Media, Startups, By John Rockefeller

I got back from the 6th Guelph DemoCamp around 9:00pm last night. Free beer, free food, a group of 50 or more programmers, and one block away from my apartment. Guelph rules :)

If you live in the Guelph area and you’re interested in going to the next one, there will be another DemoCamp on the 17th of September 2008. You should be there. Presenting stuff is easy: You get 5 minutes to set up, 5 minutes to talk, and 5 minutes to answer questions from the crowd. If you just want to come listen and mingle that’s cool, too.

I presented Jack of All Links to the crowd and it went really well. There were a couple of guys from WeGoWeGo, which is a startup that’s gearing up in Toronto as well as a few other people presenting technology or software they wrote. I really enjoyed it.

I was really surprised at the size of the crowd! I figured there might be at maximum 10 people (I mean, how many programmers *are* there around here anyway) but there were over 50. Exciting!

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