Author Archives: mike

A European living in Finland who occasionally makes technology “Do Stuff”(TM)

MobileDevCamp 2012

So, in case you did not realise, the organising team has shrunk to just me. There seems to be some interest in doing it this year, so lets see what can happen with short notice. Drop me a note (email, comment here or twitter) if you are interested in helping out (either via sponsorship or [...]

Date change

Were we ambitious or crazy? Either way, we looked at the calendar and realised that it was just too short a time to put together the event we had thought of. The new date is November 25th to 27th. There will also be a “warm-up” event on Wednesday 23rd in the evening, so keep that [...]

Hackathon on October 14-16th

So, we got the confirmation and the event is ON! Bonnier publications is partnering with MDC to run a hackathon. The core ideas are; to have fun, learn new stuff, meet new people. Oh, and if you build something that changes the world, that’s a bonus There will be a “warm-up” event earlier in the [...]

You asked, we are attempting to deliver

So, a number of folks have talked to us about setting up a more “hacking” or “doing” type event, and this time of year seems appropriate. Doing something exactly 6 months after MDC would put it in August (still Holiday season), so we have slid it a bit later in the year. There are a [...]

Slides from this year

This year we remembered to ask the speakers to upload their slides somewhere So, in the order they were on the main stage, here are PDF’s of the sidesets (titles are links!); Evolving mobile industry Tomi Ahonen Angry Birds returns to Mobile Dev Camp, Ville Heijari bada: The Next Wave, Manfred Bortenschlager Introduction to mobile [...]

Thank you everyone for yesterday.

Thanks everyone, hope you all enjoyed the day, and maybe see you next year. Of course we need to thank the speakers, who all managed to deliver their talks within the allocated time (makes it so much easier to keep things sort of on track!), and who all delivered interesting and different talks (or at [...]

Thanks to those that braved the cold and came to the forests of Espoo

Although the Aalto Venture Garage is only 10 minutes from Kamppi by bus and surrounded by offices of the biggest names in Finnish Industry, for many it seems it might as well be on the other side of the moon Those that did not brave the cold and the short bus ride, missed testing that [...]

Rules for the 2011 competition

You have 48 hours to build an application based around the theme of “Communication and/or Journalism” in one of the five categories; * bada * Qt – one or more of Symbian, MeeGo or Maemo * Microsoft Phone 7 * Android * iOS The judges will be looking at (these have different weights and are [...]

Social Media tags we use and track #mdchel11

We are using #mdchel11 as the supper short version from character limited services (like twitter) Feel free to use this shorter one in other places, but I think it makes more sense to use the longer tag #MobileDevCampFI in places like Flikr etc. that do not have character limitations.

Some hints to help you win big in the Competition

As the date for MobileDevCamp2011 is fast approaching (it’s next Saturday for those keeping count), we thought it would be a good idea to drop some hints that could help you win prizes that are available on Saturday. First tip – DON’T build an iApp! The winners of the iOS category last year ended up [...]

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