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Meet our newest intern, Laurens!

February 15, 2018 No Comments

Back to all This week we welcomed a new intern from Saxion University of Applied Science to our team. Meet Laurens Jan van Heek! Tell us a bit about yourself… Sure! I have a side job at ‘Student Aan Huis’ where I help people at their homes with all sorts of technical problems with computers, etc. When I’m not busy with school or work, I’m probably binge watching Netflix, while also keeping track of latest bitcoin/altcoin technologies and rates! On

React Native vs Xamarin: A XABLU internship

February 7, 2018 No Comments

Back to all By Mattijs Kuhlmann and Mads Lundgaard After five months at XABLU, we’ve now finished our internship, which was part of our Software Engineering programme at the Saxion University of Applied Science in Enschede. We both had an amazing time here and above all, we learned a lot! Our assignment: Xamarin vs React Native When we started, we didn’t know exactly what our assignment was going to be. But by the end of our first day, we had

XABLU welcomes two new interns, Mads and Mattijs!

September 6, 2017 No Comments

Back to all This week, Mads and Mattijs officially join the XABLU team for a six-month internship. They follow in the footsteps of fellow Saxion University of Applied Science student Maurice Markvoort, who completed his graduation assignment with us and has since become a full member of the XABLU development team! We asked Mads and Mattijs, who are both studying software engineering, a few questions to get to know them better… 1. How did you hear about Xablu and why did you

Behind the scenes at the MvvmCross & Xamarin HackDay

September 5, 2017 No Comments

Back to all This past Saturday, September 2nd, we hosted the MvvmCross & Xamarin HackDay at the TOBACCO Theater in Amsterdam. Generously co-sponsored by the .NET Foundation and Microsoft, it acted as the closing event of the two-week MvvmCross .NET Summer Hackfest, as well as an event to introduce Xamarin and MvvmCross to new developers. Attendees were greeted by a red carpet at the venue, which had an industrial look and feel, but still felt warm and welcoming. There was a great turnout of Xamarin and MvvmCross developers,

Congratulations to Marc Bruins, newest Microsoft MVP!

September 4, 2017 No Comments

Back to all The whole Xablu team would like to congratulate our colleague Marc Bruins, who was officially named a Microsoft MVP on September 1st! With the Xamarin MVP and Microsoft MVP awards being recently merged, Marc not only joins the top Xamarin experts around the world who have made significant contributions to the Xamarin developer community, but also enters the global community of Microsoft MVPs. Marc’s achievements include speaking at industry events like Techdays NL and developer meetups like the Amsterdam Xamarin Meetup” and the Xamarin, MvvmCross & .NET Meetup.

You’re invited to the MvvmCross event of the year!

August 23, 2017 No Comments

Back to all The Xablu team is excited to be organizing the MvvmCross & Xamarin HackDay in Amsterdam on Saturday, September 2nd, 2017. This full-day event will bring together MvvmCross contributors and Xamarin developers from around Europe for a day of talks, socializing and coding! We’re big fans and supporters of MvvmCross here at Xablu, using it to create our apps (through our free Visual Studio Extension, XabluCross) and encouraging our developers to contribute to the project. So we can’t wait to further spread

A look back at Xamarin Dev Days, Hengelo edition!

July 27, 2017 No Comments

Back to all Last Saturday, July 22nd, we hosted the Hengelo edition of Xamarin Dev Days at Xablu headquarters! As an app company that is 100% focused on Microsoft Xamarin, this was a great chance for our team to share their experience and knowledge with developers who are just getting started with the platform. Xamarin Dev Days are full-day training events designed by Xamarin and run by partners around the world, aimed at getting beginners building, testing, and connecting native

An amazing training opportunity for mobile developers is coming to Hengelo!

June 30, 2017 No Comments

Back to all We’re excited to announce that XABLU will be the official organizer of a Xamarin Dev Day at our headquarters in Hengelo, the Netherlands on Saturday, July 22nd, 2017. Our team has followed the growing popularity of these international training days online for some time, and we’ve been looking forward to the chance to host our own. We can’t wait to bring the event to our hometown! What is a Xamarin Dev Day? Xamarin Dev Days are one-day

Maurice presenting graduation assignment

LoRa, IoT and mobile app development: my graduation assignment at XABLU

June 23, 2017 No Comments

Back to all My five-month internship at XABLU has just come to an end so I’d like to share my experience with other students to give them an idea of what they can expect if they choose to carry out their graduation assignment here. I’m currently in the last year of a four-year applied computer science degree at the Saxion University of Applied Science, and hoping to graduate at the end of this month. As part of the final year

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