AzureCon 2015

On September 29, 2015 you can attend the free, virtual event titled “AzureCon 2015”. You can hear from the experts about the latest Azure innovation and easy-to-adopt solutions. Listen as customers take the stage to share their stories. Join live Q&As and interact with the architects and engineers who are building the latest features. Also you can choose from more than 60 technical sessions—and accelerate your journey to the cloud. You can find more information and register for the event by clicking here.

Already I registered for it and wish you to join with me as well. As my interest lies in “Developer stack” sessions –few of them would be:

Azure for developers
Overview of the Azure Service Fabric
Processing NFC tag reads in a logic app
Make your enterprise mobile with App Service, Data Sync, and Xamarin
Cortana analytics for developers: embedding machine learning into your applications
Applying Azure Machine Learning to software development
Azure App Service, the fastest way to build web and mobile apps

Register, Attend, Learn, Ask and make use of it.

Microsoft Ignite 2015 – Office 365 Development Session : Get Your Hands Dirty with the Office 365 RESTful APIs

https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK4117/player

I love this great session presented by Rob Howard; this session dives into the available scenarios when using the OneDrive for Business, Calendar, Mail, Contacts and Sites services in the Office 365 APIs. These Office 365 APIs can be called by any standalone web app or mobile device app. There are built in Visual Studio wizards, in the majority of Project Templates, to connect to them, handling all of the authentication flow and class libraries that help to call them. Understand the Azure Active Directory authentication flow. Understand scenarios available across Calendar, Mail and Contacts. Learn how to get started and work with the Calendar, Mail and Contacts. See how to implement these services in real-world scenarios in your own web apps.

Happy O365 development!!

General : Office Lens Preview for iPhone & Android Phones

Now you can download Office Lens Preview app for iPhone & Android Phones, a handy capture app that turns your smartphone into a pocket scanner. It crops, straightens, enhances, and makes pictures of whiteboards and documents readable. Pictures of documents can be saved to OneDrive and editable on any device.

In my day-today-life, I am already using the Windows Phone app for a while now and it’s simple, great handy app to use:

– Office Lens trims, enhances and makes pictures of whiteboards and docs readable, and saves them to OneNote.
– You can use Office Lens to convert images to PDF, Word and PowerPoint files too.  
– Office Lens is like having a scanner in your pocket.
– Like magic, it will digitalize notes on whiteboards or blackboards.
– Always find important documents or business cards.
– Sketch your ideas and snap a picture for later.
– Don’t lose receipts or stray sticky notes again!

You can have a look at the following videos for the respective ones:

Office Lens Preview for iPhone:

Office Lens Preview for Android:

So now its your turn – use  this app with your respective mobile versions and see it helps you to improve the productivity as well. For more info, you can refer: https://blogs.office.com/2015/04/02/office-lens-comes-to-iphone-and-android/

Happy Productivity!!

Microsoft Azure Virtual Event : New Azure Service for application developers

Dear Azure application developers,

Join the virtual event to watch as Scott Guthrie announces an exciting new Microsoft Azure service for application developers. So Save the date and Add to Calendar