2011 Build Windows Conference Home

from  http://www.buildwindows.com/

This was the big roll out for Windows 8 developers

Start building on Windows 8

Get your App in the Windows Store Beta

Enter the First Apps Contest for a chance to have your App in the Windows Store Beta when it opens.
See the contest site for full details.

Download the Windows Developer Preview

Go download the Windows Developer Preview and developer tools and start building apps now!
MSDN subscribers can go to theMSDN subscriptions page for additional downloads and Build attendees can go to the Build attendee Connect site for additional downloads.

Windows reimagined

Read Microsoft’s press release about Windows 8 and what we shared with developers, access official Windows 8 screenshots and more.

Go to the Microsoft News Center

Go to the new Windows Dev Center to get the Windows 8 Developer Preview, dev tools, samples, forums, docs and other resources to start building on Windows 8 now.
Downloads | Getting started | App samples | Forums | First Apps Contest

Keynote and session videos

Browse all session videos

 Keynotes from Day 1

 Keynotes from Day 2

 8 traits of great Metro style apps

 Platform for Metro style apps

 Tools for building Metro style apps

Some other great jump off points

        Windows 8 Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/

·          MSDN for developer information http://dev.windows.com

·          Windows Developer Preview: Metro Style Applications Forum

·          Windows Developer Preview: Desktop Development Forum

·          Windows Developer Preview: Hardware Development Forum

Javascript: JS Bin Javascript Interactive Editor / Tester

 

About

http://jsbin.com/about

JS Bin is a webapp specifically designed to help JavaScript and CSS folk test snippets of code, within some context, and debug the code collaboratively.

JS Bin allows you to edit and test JavaScript and HTML (reloading the URL also maintains the state of your code - new tabs doesn't). Once you're happy you can save, and send the URL to a peer for review or help. They can then make further changes saving anew if required.
The original idea spawned from a conversation with another developer in trying to help him debug an Ajax issue. The original aim was to build it using Google's app engine, but in the end, it was John Resig's Learning app that inspired me to build the whole solution in JavaScript with liberal dashes of jQuery and a tiny bit of LAMP for the saving process.
It took me the best part of 4 hours to develop - so if it's shaky around the edges, let me know!
This webapp was built by Remy Sharp (@rem) of Left Logic. Please get in touch if you're interested in working with me.

Dan Wahlin's Javascript Windows 8 Metro App Slides

from http://weblogs.asp.net/dwahlin/archive/2011/11/02/html5-javascript-and-windows-8-metro-talk-slides-from-devconnections-las-vegas.aspx


Dan Wahlin's

HTML5, JavaScript, and Windows 8 Metro Talk Slides from DevConnections Las Vegas

I had a great time at DevConnections Las Vegas this year and really enjoyed hanging out with existing friends as well as making some new friends. Thanks to everyone who attended my workshop and sessions. The slides from the different sessions are available to download below (click an image).

Javascript Metro App Solution Files

A Javascript Metro app is made up of several kinds of files:

The "home" page of the app by default is called "default.html" and normally lives at the root. Other html files are normally placed in the html directory. Html is the "static" web language that put up text and other static objects that you see.

CSS (cascading style sheets) define name styles which specify groups of attributes (so that you'd say header1 instead of "font size 15 Arial") kept independently so multiple .html files can share the CSS style sheets.

Scripts for programming instructions are .js javascript files, and live in the css directory.

Other pages can have their own "groups" of .html, .css and .js files.

footnotes: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6037348/Conferences/DevConnectionsFall2011.zip