Mark Arteaga

On Saturday I was over at the EnergizeIT conference in Toronto held by Microsoft Canada helping out at the Ask The Experts booth.  It was a great event with over 1500 in attendance (not bad for a Saturday).

I had a chance to meet the winner of the MSDN Canada Code Awards which was Michael Amanfi who built Team Workflow for .NET a solution on top of Windows Workflow Foundation that allows business users to develop their own workflows instead of having a developer do it.  Congrats to Michael for taking top honors!

I also got a chance to meet and do an impromptu podcast with Carl Franklin of .NET Rocks.  He had no idea I was part of OpenNETCF and it was great to hear that Carl is a user of the Smart Device Framework.  Listen to the podcast here.

Overall it was a great event and great to talk to people in the community about various different technologies.  Can't wait to go again next year, I just hope they have more Windows Mobile and Compact Framework content available!

OpenNETCF is hiring at our US location for an Entry Level Windows Mobile/Windows CE Developer.  See here for the job post. 

If interested in joining our team email hr[_at_]opennetcf[_dot_]com. 

[Note: this is an onsite position located in Dyer, Indiana]

Also, for the Canadian readers, if you are in the Toronto Area with Windows Mobile/Windows CE experience send your resume also.  We are not hiring yet on this side of the border but might in the very near future :)

A new Windows Mobile development book has just been released by Andy Wigley, Daniel Moth and Peter Foot called Mobile Development Handbook.  I had a chance to read a few of the chapters and it's one of the best books out there for mobile development using Compact Framework and is targeted from the beginner to the advance developer.  They cover things from GUI development to Security to Interop and even have a chapter on .NET Compact Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas) from a device developer perspective. Whether you are just starting mobile development or have been doing it for a while this is definitely a book that is needed on the shelf :)