Thorsten Hans (@ThorstenHans) showed a lot of examples how to send notifications via Windows Azure Mobile Services. The story was “Build a contact form” with push notifications As a Windows 8 App As a SharePoint App Key takeaway Easy, fast – good stuff. Wondering if the push based messages are based on SignalR. The session was good fun, thanks Thorsten!

Session about TypeScript and SharePoint by Martin Groblschegg Short introduction about TypeScript TypeScript is a free and open source programming language developed by Microsoft. It is a strict superset of JavaScript, and essentially adds optional static typing and class-based object oriented programming to the language. Anders Hejlsberg, lead architect of C#, has worked on development of TypeScript. TypeScript extends JavaScript syntax, so any existing JavaScript programs work with TypeScript without any changes.

Controversial discussion about the new App Model and very nice experience sharing. Here are my key questions and thoughts about the session by Christian Groß. Deployment? What are the limits and advantages Security – when you trust you can choose what rights the app has. Technology independent (Coose what every technology you want, e.g. .NET version) Life cycle – when you update you app you have to update the app on each subscriber web.