{"id":86,"date":"2012-12-12T09:47:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T17:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/?p=86"},"modified":"2025-03-04T09:51:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T17:51:06","slug":"decks-from-my-teched-ru-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/blog\/2012\/12\/12\/decks-from-my-teched-ru-sessions\/","title":{"rendered":"Decks from my TechEd RU Sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this month, I spent a couple weeks in the Moscow area, talking with the Microsoft developer community about Windows Phone \u2013 presenting at TechEd Russia 2012 and stopping in to chat with the local Microsoft MVPs.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"135\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simpkins.social\/cliff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/479765_10151524551747646_766467336_n1.jpg?resize=240%2C135&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-87\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My TechEd Russia sessions were mostly remixed content delivered by the engineering team at the BUILD conference in October. At the heart, the core content is unchanged; most of my edits revolved around personal presentation style and incorporating developer feedback and reactions to content as it was presented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the past month, I received a few requests for the decks that I used at the event, and so I\u2019m posting them up here for broad consumption:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/skydrive.live.com\/redir?resid=4AA10C31A8188647!5230&amp;authkey=!APn8jMqzy_w65OA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WPH 203: In-App Purchases in Windows Phone 8<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/skydrive.live.com\/redir?resid=4AA10C31A8188647!5229&amp;authkey=!AGLAeZqylsLTkY8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WPH 305: App-to-App Communication in Windows Phone 8<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/skydrive.live.com\/redir?resid=4AA10C31A8188647!5231&amp;authkey=!AC6CXm66bTy2TC8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WPH 307: Native Game Development in Windows Phone 8<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks to those who attended the talks and took the time to ask questions and provide feedback on what the team shipped in the Windows Phone SDK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, I spent a couple weeks in the Moscow area, talking with the Microsoft developer community about Windows Phone \u2013 presenting at TechEd Russia 2012 and stopping in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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