Category: Tampere

How to make your QML applications scale to and look nice on Symbian, MeeGo/Harmattan and android

October 9, 2011 by Artem Marchenko

Yesterday I was talking at the 2nd Tampere barcamp about how you can make your application automatically scale to different devices, yet allow for pixel perfect fine-tuning when needed. We used this approach for Easy Discount Calculator that is to my understanding the first real app available simultaneously for Symbian, MeeGo/Harmattan and Android (on some Android devices it runs smoothly, on som it has problems due to bugs in not yet mature the porting technology).

Unfortunately the presentation may not make much sense to you if you haven’t been to the barcamp as well, but you may like to have a look at the application on your device. Here are the links to the app stores:
- Easy Discount Calculator for Nokia devices. BTW right now it is the second in the top seller Business apps for Nokia N9.
- Easy Discount Calculator for Android devices

Tampere Goes Agile 2011 - conference photos

September 19, 2011 by Artem Marchenko

A couple of days earlier, on Saturday, Sep 17 in a city of Tampere I was co-organizing the conference called Tampere Goes Agile. Conference was a big success, preparations were challenging and interesting and I should really write about it. For now, here is the slideshow for the conference photos. If you want your photos to appear here, tag them on flickr with tamperegoesagile.

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Organizing an Agile gathering in 5 simple steps

January 27, 2009 by Artem Marchenko

Last week a second Agile Dinner was held in Tampere. It eventually made me find time to publish photos and my lighting talk presentation from the first dinner that was held in Tampere on December 4 2008 and had a great success.

To make this post at least a bit useful to the people who haven’t been present on the dinner, let me share with you how easy it is to get an Agile community started. The plan consists of five steps:

1. Get to know the local agile mailing list. It’s ok if there isn’t too much traffic.
2. Prepare a lighting talk to serve as a discussion starter. 5 minutes max
3. Create a wiki page for self registration couple of weeks in advance. Post announcement on the mailing list. Tentatively book a room in the local beer restaurant or bar (just for an hour or two)
4. A week later after seeing how many people register, book tables in the bar
5. Come, talk and drink.Or eat.