MEETING INFORMATION

Thursday, May 9, 2013 18:30 at Arbormoon Software, Inc, 212 S 4th Ave, Suite 2D, Ann Arbor, MI 48104

Starting at 6:30pm, we'll have free food sponsored by Arbormoon Software, Inc Please RSVP on Meetup.com to help us estimate how much food we need. While you are enjoying the food, talk with other developers and network in the local Cocoa community.

Our main meeting will start at 7pm and will feature a talk on Windows Azure Mobile Services by Jennifer Marsman.

Windows Azure Mobile Services gives you a ton of backend services for use with your mobile apps. You can quickly create a database in the cloud, use authentication services, and send push notifications to users, to name a few. Your cloud backend also has the reliability, scale, and diagnostics of Windows Azure. Windows Azure Mobile Services provides client SDKs for iOS, Android, Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, and a newly-announced library for HTML5 which can reach any device.

Jennifer Marsman is a Principal Developer Evangelist in Microsoft’s Developer and Platform Evangelism group, where she educates developers on Microsoft’s new technologies. In this role, Jennifer is a frequent speaker at software development conferences across the United States. In 2009, Jennifer was chosen as "Techie whose innovation will have the biggest impact" by X-OLOGY for her work with GiveCamps, a weekend-long event where developers code for charity. In her 10 years with the company, she has also received many honors from Microsoft, including the Central Region Top Contributor Award, Heartland District Top Contributor Award, DPE Community Evangelist Award, CPE Champion Award, MSUS Diversity & Inclusion Award, and Gold Club. Prior to becoming a Developer Evangelist, Jennifer was a software developer in Microsoft’s Natural Interactive Services division. In this role, she earned two patents for her work in search and data mining algorithms. Jennifer has also held positions with Ford Motor Company, National Instruments, and Soar Technology. Jennifer holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering and Master’s Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Her graduate work specialized in artificial intelligence and computational theory. Jennifer blogs at http://blogs.msdn.com/jennifer and tweets at http://twitter.com/jennifermarsman.

We have a local mailing list please join it to take part in discussions and hear about upcoming meetings.

If you are interested in talking about an iPhone or Mac OS X development topic, or showing your iPhone or Mac OS X project please contact Dave Koziol.

We're always looking for volunteers to talk at future meetings, so please consider volunteering.

INTRODUCTION

Welcome to the Ann Arbor, MI CocoaHeads Chapter! Our group includes a number of long time developers as well as developers new to the environment. We welcome all skill levels, and we discuss both Mac and iPhone topics.

Please come help build the Cocoa community in Ann Arbor!

Our most up to date information is always available on our Meetup.com page.

We have a local mailing list please join it to take part in discussions and hear about upcoming meetings.

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GROUP MANAGER

Dave Koziol