Career artifact · Microsoft era

Windows 8 Developer Bootcamp

A packed New York City room moved from new platform features to live code and hands-on building.

This full-day bootcamp gave developers the knowledge and direct support to begin creating Metro-style Windows 8 applications with HTML5 and JavaScript or XAML and C#.

A large room of developers with laptops watching Dave Isbitski present Windows 8 on stage in New York City — A full room of developers follows Dave's Windows 8 platform session with laptops open and ready to build. Photo by Bob Familiar, CC BY 2.0.

From stage to workbench

A launch moment became a room full of developers building.

Windows 8 combined the reach of Windows with a reimagined interface, new device capabilities, a built-in Store, and multiple application paths. The bootcamp translated that broad opportunity into a practical day: understand the platform, see its features working, study live code, and then begin building.

I showcased new Windows 8 capabilities and wrote and explained code live onstage. The photographs preserve both the scale of the room and the technical detail: developers filled tables with laptops while Visual Studio and a running Metro-style application appeared on the projection screens.

The work continued after the formal presentation. A bootcamp succeeds when the stage becomes a support system, so the rest of the day was about helping developers turn examples into their own applications, answering questions, and getting people through the first difficult stretch of a new platform.

Show the feature. Show the code. Then step off the stage and help every developer in the room make progress on their own build. Career perspective · Windows 8 era

The bootcamp rhythm

Create momentum. Go deep on code. Stay for the build.

Give the room a map

Frame the Windows 8 opportunity and show developers where their existing web or .NET skills could connect.

Code in the open

Live development exposed the actual tools, APIs, decisions, and debugging that sit behind a polished demo.

Help people ship a start

Hands-on support converted a day of information into working projects and confidence developers could carry home.

Inside the New York bootcamp

Live code onstage and a shared finish

Dave Isbitski coding live onstage with Visual Studio projected behind him at the Windows 8 Developer Bootcamp — “Show me the code!” Dave drills into the Windows 8 Developer Platform with Visual Studio projected above the stage. Photo by Bob Familiar, CC BY 2.0.

Dave Isbitski and Edwin Guarin together onstage at the close of the Windows 8 Developer Bootcamp — Edwin Guarin and Dave close the day with giveaways for the developer audience. Photo by Bob Familiar, CC BY 2.0.

Public record

Explore the surviving event archive

Bob Familiar · Flickr Windows 8 Developer Bootcamp photo album Explore the full event record → Bob Familiar · Flickr Dave drills into the Windows 8 Developer Platform View the original photograph → Bob Familiar · Flickr Live code on the bootcamp stage View the original photograph → Bob Familiar · Flickr Edwin and Dave close the event View the original photograph →