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<\/center><\/p>\nThere are a couple of seats left for the Windows 8 App-a-thon that will be held on Friday September 28th at the Microsoft Offices in Zaventem. Register your place now.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n What’s in a name? Of course you know hackathons. App-a-thon is your version of the ‘Windows 8 apps hackathon’.<\/p>\n Mark your calendar for 28-9<\/strong> and spend your day coding\/designing at last app-a-thon before GA on October 26th! Hands on. Code. Build. Shine. Totally Windows 8.<\/strong><\/p>\n There will be 2 coding sessions, 1 for Day Birds from 10AM – 4PM<\/strong> and one for Night Owls from6PM – 12AM<\/strong>. You can join us for one or both sessions.<\/p>\n Build an app, have fun and go home with fantastic<\/strong> prizes!<\/strong><\/p>\n 1st<\/strong> prize: Xbox 360 + Kinect No app idea yet?<\/strong> No problem! We have a bucket full of ideas and scenarios you can use right away to kick start your project!<\/p>\n Questions about UX & design?<\/strong> Don\u2019t worry, we\u2019ve got that covered. You\u2019ll be able to talk to a Windows 8 UX Expert (will be there for 4 hours) and a designer (will be there the entire day!) to help out with logo\u2019s, graphic design, etc.<\/p>\n Technical pre-requisites (for developers)<\/strong> UX designers<\/strong>: Photoshop or your familiar wireframing tool There are a couple of seats left for the Windows 8 App-a-thon that will be held on Friday September 28th at the Microsoft Offices in Zaventem. Register your place now. What’s in a name? Of course you know hackathons. App-a-thon is your version of the ‘Windows 8 apps hackathon’. Mark your calendar for 28-9 and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,145,16],"tags":[172],"class_list":["post-1034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-meet","category-microsoft","tag-app-a-thon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044,"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions\/1044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTeam up with your best UX or developer friend to build a killer team, come alone, sign up with a group, whatever you want!<\/p>\n
\n2nd<\/strong> prize: Deluxe App\u2019ero Bongo Box
\n3rd<\/strong> prize: Professional Sharp Knife Set<\/p>\n
\n– Familiarity writing either desktop apps, mobile applications or developing websites. Familiarity with either Javascript, C# or C++.
\n– Bring your own laptop: any device capable of running Windows 8 and Visual Studio Express
\n– Required software:
\nWindows 8 RTM via MSDN downloads<\/a>\u00a0 (for MSDN subscribers) or Windows 8 RTM via Evaluation Center<\/a>
\nVisual Studio 2012
\n<\/a>Windows 8 SDK samples<\/a><\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Check out the Windows 8 UX Guidelines<\/a>
\n\u2022 You might want to download Windows 8 Style Apps Assets<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"