This is the perfect time to take a look at what happened in the last few months as well as what’s on the roadmap for next year. So let’s start by taking a look at 2012…

Events

• In February I went to the TechDays in Paris. I was speaker in a session about Performance optimization for Windows Phone application

• In November, I gave a presentation about Windows Phone 8 at SFEIR Plays

Blog posts

The last year I blogged mostly about Windows Phone stuff. This is not a surprise as I’m busy (on my personal time…) working for my 2Day todo-list application. I’m finalizing a major release that should be submitted to the marketplace soon with a ton of new features and improvement (several blog posts should highlight some topics from a developer point of view).

Here is the full list of article (oldest first):

• If you like typing XAML you will love ReSharper 6.1 !
• ReSharper and code generation
• Windows Phone performance analysis & optimization during TechDays
• Developping an app for the Windows Phone platform
• Windows Phone vNext & Windows 8 next week
• Windows Phone Tango (7.1.1)
• Introducing the PivotIndicator control for Windows Phone
• WP7 performance tip: translate transforms
• MVVM framework explorer updated !
• Hello World, WinRT !
• A lap around Team Foundation Service online
• Hacking for fun: porting a Silverlight Windows Phone app to WinRT in 9hours
• Introducing 2Day: a fast & fluid todo-list WP7 app
• MVP 2012-2013 !
• Random ArgumentException in a Windows Phone 7 application
• SQL database version management in a Windows Phone 7 application
• Handling events in the items of a ListBox (Windows Developer Show podcast challenge)
• Animating item selection in a WP7 application
• Fun with ILDASM and ILASM: tweaking the code of an existing library
• Welcome Windows Phone 8.0 SDK
• Meet me at SFEIRPlays Paris 28/11 talking WP8
• Wanted: Windows Phone / Windows 8 developers for 2Day !
• Updating the live tiles when the exits: WP8 weirdness

Next year

2013 should very busy too 🙂

• In mid-February, I will speak again during the TechDays in Paris. The topic is the same as last year: performance optimization for Windows Phone applications. However, with Windows Phone 8 we’ve plenty of new topics to cover !
• In late-February I will fly to Redmond for the MVP Summit 2013. It will be my sedond time there. As aways, all the content will be under NDA… I will share a room with my friend Jose Fajardo I met at //BUILD/ 2011 !
• In March, I should setup an event with my company and Microsoft in Grenoble talking about Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8

I’m still deeply invested with 2Day so hopefully you should see more tips and tricks about Windows Phone. As a Windows 8 version is also on its way, that should give me many reasons to write new blog posts.

Happy new year dear readers !