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Xamarin for Healthcare: Training Philips VitalHealth Team

XABLU HQ — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 19:20:41 +0000

At the end of October, we were present at Philips VitalHealth to provide a one-week training focused on gaining experience with Xamarin development. Our Microsoft MVP Developer, Nico Milcoff, spend the week with their eager development team.

Nico traveled a very long distance; from Rosario, Argentina to finally end up in the Veluwe to reach Uddel, where VitalHealth is located. VitalHealth focuses on improving people’s health and enabling better health outcomes through digital innovations and solutions.

A week of Gaining Experience in Xamarin

In five intense back-to-back training days, the VitalHealth developers gained much Xamarin knowledge as well as hands-on experience through practical exercises.

Philips reached out to us through our training partner Global Knowledge. The team wanted to gain more in-depth knowledge of Xamarin and, therefore, they dived into the ‘Xamarin Certified Developer’ training.

Nico was very enthusiastic about the progress he saw, and he very much enjoyed working with the team:

“I was honestly amazed by the team spirit and how much interest they had for Xamarin. This was a great experience.”
NICO, MICROSOFT MVP AND TRAINER.

The VitalHealth development team also looks back on a successful week:

“We learned a lot, received a lot of practical information that matched our daily work thanks to a well-prepared training and the high level of knowledge and enthusiasm of our trainer, Nico!”
JOHAN, SOFTWARE ENGINEER TEAM LEAD AT PHILIPS VITALHEALTH

After this successful collaboration, we look forward to working together with Philips VitalHealth in the future and we are eager to see their obtained Xamarin knowledge incorporated in new solutions and innovations to improve health.

Interested in your own in-house training course?

Whether you’re looking for an intro to the technology, or want an intensive course to get your dev team ready to code with Xamarin, we’re here to help.

Our training team is made up full-time developers who draw on their everyday experience in the field to bring to life their Xamarin courses. Check out our Training page for more details!

Curious how Xablu can help your organization ?

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Meet the Developer: 5 questions for our newest developer Luuk Jongebloet

Sabine Alberts — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 08:24:29 +0000

A few weeks ago, Luuk Jongebloet, officialy became a team member of Xablu’s Xamarin Development team. We’ve asked Luuk to answer a few questions. Curious about Luuk? See his interview below!

What brought you to Xamarin development and where do you want to go with it?

For me it all started some time ago, in 2015, with the development of a smartwatch application. This whole process of creating fascinated me. Seeing something rise and evolve every time you adjust the code makes my job fun and lively.

As a developer I want to be able to create many iOS and Android applications which result in an easier and beneficial life for the end-user.

What’s the coolest thing you have ever been working on regarding development?

That must be the creation of an AI robot car which is able to imitate a train! This specific “train” is following a set track, and while it goes, it is picking up people from set stations. That sounds like some cool stuff right?!

What has your experience at XABLU been like so far?

Xablu, in its essence, is a group of carefully handpicked Xamarin professionals. All with very high expertise in my opinion. Being a part of this team is great. Next to that, being a team member, also enables to learn a bunch of new things from my colleagues all the time.

How do you like to spend your free time?

I like to spend my free time with either gaming, working out in the gym, and of course some quality time with friends has never hurt anybody.

What’s your favourite food?!

I can’t say for certain since I like á LOT of food! But lately I do like to eat ramen. Ramen is a Japanese dish, very salty, and mainly consisting of wheat noodles.

Good luck to Luuk from the whole team!

We’re always happy to grow our team with eager developers interested in working their hand at real app projects.

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A Deep Dive into Xamarin for the UPS Team

XABLU HQ — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 10:15:21 +0000

Last week we had the pleasure of getting a team at UPS up and running with Xamarin development. Nico Milcoff flew over to the USA to lead an enthusiastic team of developers at the UPS Innovation Center in New Jersey.

UPS, the multinational package delivery and supply chain management company headquartered in the USA, got in touch with us through IT training broker NewAge Solutions. As they were looking for an intensive Xamarin course for their developers, we sent Nico Milcoff, who is a Microsoft MVP with many years of Xamarin development and training experience.

An intense week of Xamarin training

Held at the UPS Innovation Center in New Jersey, a full classroom of 15 developers took part in the week-long course.

As we’re a Xamarin University-certified training partner, the course followed the Xamarin University curriculum, with a combination of lectures, discussion and hands-on labs that let the group try out what they learned.

Participants had nothing but praise for Nico, who they said delivered the training very clearly while staying engaging and motivating!

At the end of the week, the UPS developers were equipped with the skills to independently start coding cross-platform mobile apps with Xamarin. As summed by one participant:

This is a great course if you want a deep dive into Xamarin’s capabilities, and to learn the proper methodology for building your project.
CHRIS, DEVELOPER AT UPS

Interested in your own in-house training course?

Whether you’re looking for an intro to the technology, or want an intensive course to get your dev team ready to code with Xamarin, we’re here to help.

Our training team is made up full-time developers who draw on their everyday experience in the field to bring to life their Xamarin courses. Check out our Training page for more details!

Curious how Xablu can help your organization ?

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One week to Xamarin mastery at Newegg

XABLU HQ — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 12:50:00 +0000

XABLU HQ

XABLU developer Marc Bruins has just got back from a week in sunny California, where he led a Xamarin training course at Newegg headquarters.

A leading retailer for computer hardware in North America, Newegg was interested in getting its developers started with Xamarin. They approached US-based training company Accelebrate, who then got in touch with Marc Bruins to lead an in-house course. As a Microsoft MVP and Xamarin University-certified trainer, Marc regularly teaches and speaks about Xamarin to both beginners and experienced developers.

One week to get developing with Xamarin

After several calls with Newegg, Marc got to work preparing for a five-day training program aimed at taking their developers from Xamarin newbies to independently coding Xamarin apps. Last week, he flew over to Newegg headquarters in Industry, California to deliver the training in person.

18 developers from both back-end and front-end teams attended the training, both on-location and remotely. The course followed the Xamarin University curriculum and included interactive discussions and hands-on labs where participants could quickly apply their new knowledge.

After an intensive week of learning, it was time to hand out the certificates. Congratulations to the new Xamarin developers!

Interested in your own in-house training course?

Whether you’re looking for an intro to the technology, or want an intensive course to get your dev team ready to code with Xamarin, we’re here to help. Our training team is made up of three Xamarin University-certified trainers who are also full-time developers. This means that not only are they officially qualified to teach Xamarin app development, they also speak from their everyday experience in the field.

Check out our Training page for more details or just send an email to Mark Jonker, Head of Training, at m.jonker@xablu.com

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Xamarin Dev Days – Hengelo

XABLU HQ — Sat, 22 Jul 2017 07:00:00 +0000

Xamarin Dev Days is coming to Hengelo on July 22nd, 2017!

Developers, you’re invited to the first Xamarin Dev Day in Hengelo, the Netherlands! Designed by Xamarin and run by experts in different locations around the world, Xamarin Dev Days are community driven, hands-on learning experiences geared towards beginner mobile developers to help build, test, and connect native iOS, Android, and Windows apps.

In this free, all-day training event, you’ll get the chance to enhance your knowledge of Xamarin, Xamarin.Forms and Azure and even build a new Xamarin.Forms application in the afternoon in a hands-on lab!

Each session will be led by a different expert from the XABLU team, letting you learn and get advice directly from industry-level practitioners.

Agenda

9:00 AM – 9:30 AM

Registration

9:30 AM – 10:10 AM

Introduction to Xamarin by Xamarin Consultant Marc Bruins

10:20 AM – 11:00 AM

Cross Platform UI with Xamarin.Forms by Microsoft & Xamarin MVP Martijn van Dijk

11:10 AM – 11:50 AM

Connected Apps with Azure by Senior Xamarin Developer Maurits van Beusekom

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

Lunch

1:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Hands-on lab: Build a connected app with Xamarin.Forms and Azure

Registration: Get your free ticket for Xamarin Dev Days – Hengelo here

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Google I/O Extended Luxembourg

XABLU HQ — Wed, 17 May 2017 16:00:00 +0000

Google I/O 2017 and the Future of Mobile Development

Google I/O is an annual developer festival held at the outdoor Shoreline Amphitheatre in California, where Google presents its latest innovations and products. We’re bringing the magic of this year’s event to Luxembourg through Google I/O Extended.

Join fellow developers and technology enthusiasts at The Office for a live screening of Google’s keynote presentation. This will be followed by a discussion on what the latest innovations mean for the future of mobile development and the Microsoft ecosystem, led by Xamarin and Microsoft MVP Martijn van Dijk.

Schedule:

18:00 Walk-in with pizza and drinks

19:00 Google I/O keynote live stream

20:30 Discussion on the future of mobile development

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MvvmCross Meetup

XABLU HQ — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 09:54:00 +0000

XABLU HQ

Over the last year we have been organising our monthly MvvmCross hackathon. Besides the socialising part and the famously good food the main ‘goal’ has always been to attract new contributors to the open source project.

While this has been successful and indeed PR’s from regular visitors have been accepted upstream, we feel the need to bring this to the next level and make this meeting more accessible to new-comers that are using MvvmCross in their daily work, but not necessarily have the ambition to contribute to the open source project.

So if you want to sit down with other developers, ask questions and share insights on using MvvmCross than you’re more than welcome to join!

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Microsoft’s TechDays 2016

XABLU HQ — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 09:27:00 +0000

Xablu

On the 4th and 5th October the annual Microsoft TechDays will take place in Amsterdam.

This year the XABLU team will be present to inform you about Xamarin mobile app development. Whether you want to talk about setting up a good app architecture or organising your mobile strategy: we’re the team that can help you realise your mobile targets!

We will be located at the Xamarin stand near the open podium. We also have discounts tickets. Send us a message and save some money!

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