While many of you had the awesome opportunity to attend the exciting //publish/Hackathon event held in Singapore, I had the chance to attend the one held in London, United Kingdom. The event here was held at Cardinal Place, Microsoft London on 17th May 2014 from 9am – 9pm.
Throughout the event, developers had the opportunity to gather for the day to develop and publish their apps. It was also a great opportunity to connect with other developers around the world via live video stream and chat room, view training sessions, and get 1-on-1 personalized consulting with Microsoft Engineers on-site at the dev clinics. The engineers provided valuable feedback to make great apps into masterpieces, where some of the support rendered included store certification preparation, migration guidance, advice for app performance, stability and design, and troubleshooting assistance. Also, there was the UK AppChallenge held concurrently, where attendees had the chance to win Microsoft hardware as we competed with one another to climb the leader board.
Unlike the one held in Singapore which lasted for 2 days, we only had the event for a day, so we had to make every second count! At the end of the day, developers who published an app received a limited edition goodybag consisting thumbdrives, special edition t-shirts and cool Microsoft gifts. On top of that, developers also demoed their published apps, and the best ones won pretty awesome hardware devices.
Well, enough said, I guess I’ll let the photos I took do the talking! 🙂
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