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Hello guys! This year CodeZero team decided to participate to Imagine Cup, the largest technology competition for students in the Hearth, organized by Microsoft. 

Let me spend two words on Imagine Cup, before to dig into what we’ve done.

To participate to Imagine Cup students have to create a team and submit for one of the offered categories, which may vary each year. Main categories are:

  • Software Design
  • Embedded development
  • Game Design
  • Windows Phone 7
  • ….

We all have a common theme, which can vary each year, but last two years was to reach one of 8 Millennium Goals.

The competition starts on August 1st and ends on April, but this is decided by each Country. In fact Students first participate to National finals and the first team on Software Design goes to World Finals.

 

This year in Italy we were 250 competitors, and each year the number is growing, which means, better competitors, and better softwares!

As CodeZero we developed a software called Flexy, and we placed 2nd for Software Design! It’s been a wonderful experience.

Flexy is a software that let you have a better way to Work. Our slogan is BETTER WORK, BETTER WORLD. It does not follow directly the 8 Millennium Goals, but  what we thought is that, if we can have less dirty money floating around, let people find work more easily, a good way to organize the work, we can also export this good organization and have money to build schools, reduce the ignorance, do advertising campaign, to reach Millennium Goals.

Now, people said to us, “ok, but you can get money from everywhere, even buying an ice cream and give money to Millennium Goals”. True, but is not an organized massive way to do it, and does not teach something to the community.

But anyway we didn’t directly followed the Millennium Goals, even thought that our work was HUGE, and well organized and presented.

We were amazed how difficult for the jury was to decide among 6 complex softwares (finalists).

 

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Another aspect of the competition was to meet companies that look for talents. We meet them and we’re really satisfied how things turned out well for us. We’ll see and we’ll update as soon as possible. So just for now we won’t open to everybody our secrets as we usually do, but we’ll share the advertising video for Flexy.

 

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For people who speaks enough italian to read some articles we are proud to point out some good articles that talks about this competition and about us (plus all other guys and teams)

 

Links

 

Another good source is facebook with our own page, official Imagine Cup italian page, and the official italian blog (designed by Code Zero :P ).

Comments are always appreciated!

-dave & roby

Oggi io e Roby abbiamo tenuto un seminario all’università di Bari, sede Brindisi, su Mobile e User Interface 3D. Entrambi avevamo voglia di fare un seminario un po’ insolito e ci siamo trovati davanti degli studenti, non solo attentissimi, ma molti anche già preparati sul .NET. Uno studente che ha già visto .NET è mosca bianca…figuratevi circa 10-15!!! In definitiva sia il mio seminario, che quello di Roby sono stati davvero di altissimo livello, non solo perché alla fine sia io che lui abbiam fatto roba davvero complessa, che non si vede tutti i giorni, ma perché gli studenti hanno partecipato riempendoci di domande. Strepitoso. Davvero soddisfacente!

Infine, siccome Roby aveva un pc con uno schermo multi touch, la parte di Surface, cioè NUI (Natural User Interface) l’ho fatta usando il pc di Roby: improvvisato :| grandissimo :P . La difficoltà maggiore è stata adattarsi alla tastiera inglese, non trovavo mezzo comando, però quello che mostravo potevo davvero metterlo in pratica… mica male :D .

 

Un piccolo recap sull’agenda:

Dave

  • User Interface: Usability & Responsiveness
  • WPF con Expression Blend & Visual Studio
  • Disegnare una app in WPF: Navigation Framework
  • Approcciare il 3d in WPF: Fluid Kit & Outlook Contacts
  • Lavorare con il 3D in WPF: componenti come texture su mesh 3D
  • Surface: multi-user interface
    • Pensare in modalità multi-user
    • Creare le applicazioni per multi-user
    • Usare suoni e video
    • Menù per ogni componente

Roby

  • Compact Framework
  • Pensare una applicazione Mobile: le risorse
  • Creare una semplice applicazione mobile
  • Creare un installer e uninstaller con test sul device reale
  • Sfruttare servizi mobile, per gestire chiamate ed SMS
  • Creazione di una applicazione complessa: SeizeMyLife

Ecco il link al blog di Roberto

 

Il link per scaricare i codici sorgenti  (surface  & WPF ) & slides

Commenti sono sempre ben accetti!

 

-dave

Ciao ragazzi, condivido con voi le mie slides su Microsoft Surface e i miei codici del dotnet campus, evento del 13 Marzo 2010 a Roma.

 

www.dotnetcampus.it

 

Link alle slides

Link ai codici sorgenti

 

-dave

Right guys…another video tutorial from udev and CodeZero !

And obviously the code and the slides in a zip :)

 

 

Get Microsoft Silverlight

Hope you like ;)

 

-dave

Nothing but the simplest steps to install Surface SDK to get started in 30 mins :)

enjoy it!

 

Or you can watch it in your WMV player here

-dave

 

netcampus_refl

 

{ What } DOTNETCAMPUS 2010
{ When } Sabato 13 marzo 2010
{ Where } Università Roma 3 – Facoltà di Ingegneria
{ Who } DevLeap in collaborazione con i Microsoft Student Partners e le Community
{ Why } Per incontrare i maggiori esperti italiani sulla piattaforma .NET, gli autori dei libri più interessanti, le persone di Microsoft, gli appassionati delle Community e le aziende leader che operano nel settore IT.
Arriva .NET Campus 2010: l’evento per sviluppatori organizzato dal gruppo DevLeap in collaborazione con i Microsoft Student Partners e le Community più attive per fornire a studenti e professionisti un’intensa mattinata di sessioni tecniche presso l’università Roma 3.
Non solo sessioni tecniche orientate alle novità che ruotano intorno al mondo .NET, ma un momento unico dove aziende e studenti possono incontrarsi per confrontare i loro mondi e unire le loro esperienze.

L’evento è GRATUITO: registrati subito su www.dotnetcampus.it

Ed infine l’agenda versione R2! …Ragazzi ci sono anche io! Giusto per darvi qualche dritta sul design in Microsoft Surface ;)

netcampus_agenda

-dave