Techorama Belgium 2018

Three of our colleagues had the crazy idea to participate in The Barrel Challenge, a six-day trip through Europe in a classic car. Over more than 3000 km, they traversed steep hills and snowy mountain passes, facing cold and other unexpected weather conditions. 
 We wouldn't be Codit if we didn't equip the car with various sensors and connect these to the cloud.  We were able to track it at any moment and see its position, temperature, altitude and various other parameters. During this session, we will tell you the story on how we connected this car and give you a behind-the-curtain view on the technical architecture. Technologies that will be discussed are : Azure IoT, Edge connectivity, Stream Analytics and SignalR.

Have you ever wondered how effective your unit tests are? There’s an easy way to find out: use mutation testing.
Unit testing is important. It helps us catch common mistakes and keep our code base maintainable. But writing them is an everyday challenge. Measuring the code coverage can help us a great deal, but what does this metric actually tell us? Join this session and learn how mutation testing can measure the actual effectiveness of your unit tests.
“But how?” you might wonder. Meet Stryker - the open source mutation testing framework for JavaScript and friends. We’ve been developing it for over 2 years now and support for most JavaScript use cases. See how Stryker can also improve your testing life with a live demo.

In this lightning talk, I’m going to show you 15 reasons to switch to Rider, a full .NET IDE from the team behind ReSharper. We’ll look at how you can painlessly switch to a new IDE, and how Rider can make you a faster and more productive developer.

Fable is an F# to JavaScript compiler powered by Babel, designed to produce readable and standard code.

Fable brings all the power of F# to the JavaScript ecosystem. It's a bliss to work with and could very well change the way you look at front-end development.

Join Technical Evangelist Don Wibier on his quest to become more productive with Visual Studio.
Get ready to have your mind blown with some of the coolest features in the latest release of CodeRush to easily accomplish your coding/debugging/refactoring/testing goals with the fewest possible keystrokes. Not to be missed!

What is the fastest way to have an Enterprise-worthy mobile application published online in the store(s) or in your company’s private store? And this with a full scalable Azure Cloud backend to support your application. As I work on a daily base with all the latest Microsoft technology, I want to give a quick overview of every aspect of a mobile architecture. I will discuss the best practices and all the pitfalls I have encountered during several mobile projects. The Mobile and Cloud Technology is evolving with such a pace, it’s very hard to keep up with all the latest evolvements. There very well-though choices following some simple rules will help you to make your project a success.

With innovative technology such as artificial intelligence and mixed reality, we have more power at our fingertips than entire generations that came before us.
Yet, technology is just a tool, and a tool is only as useful as the person who wields it.
 
But what can you do with those tools? And more importantly how do you use them?
Microsoft is giving us services that when we implement them well, they can blow the minds of our customers.
Let’s learn how:
At the InspireX booth there will be a letterbox.
Write your idea/question down on a business card and drop it in the box.
At the session we will handpick some of the ideas/questions and discuss how they can be solved.

While most of our consultants work in a client's office, we don't want them to become strangers. Instead, we try to keep them informed of what's going on in our Microsoft unit, what their colleagues have been doing, in short: trying to increase the community feeling. Think past organizing a technical session after a long day of work, for example. Rather, try to mix some fun into the seriousness, or just meet up instead of going to a meetup.
In this short session, we will talk about our efforts in how to build our Microsoft community, inspiring you - or perhaps even your manager - to do the same.