University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Anyone interested in joining AITP (Association of Information Technology Professionals), please fill out the contact form below. Your information will be kept private and will only be used to contact you in regards to joining the club.
First Club Meeting
Friday the 20th
5:45-7:00 pm
Agenda:
AITP or AIS
Meeting days/times
Dues
Desired field trip/semester activities
Power Team and Power Team Trainees (Dr. Bailey will explain)
BIS LOGO DESIGN CONTEST
Valued at $250!!!
• Best Logo Wins a Halo 3 Helmet (valued at $250)
• Winning Slogan Wins Cool Microsoft Swag!!!
The BIS(Business Information Systems) Department needs a new logo and slogan. This is your chance to show off your skills and win great prizes! Contest is open to everybody!
Deadline is 1 November 2013.
Click here to contact us for more information.
Windows Phone 8 Workshop
Saturday 9-21 from 10:30-4:30 we are having a Windows Phone 8 workshop. Please register quickly at the following link as we are holding spots for MIS majors thru the 15th then it will become open enrollment. If you have a friend you want to bring who is not a MIS major, they can enroll after the 15th. We will be doing a Windows Phone Infohub using a Template helper. The primary goal of this workshop will be to get people set up with Windows Phone Developer accounts and to help them with submitting their first Windows Phone app to the store. The Windows Phone Store is different from the Windows 8 store – different developer accounts, different process, different testers, different expectations.
https://ualr-wp8.eventbrite.com/
If you are bringing your own laptop, it must have 4GB of RAM and be capable of Hyper-V. If your laptop came with Windows 8 and does not have a Celeron processor, you should be fine. If your machine is less than 1 1/2 years old and had Windows 7 on it originally and has 4GB of RAM, it should support Win Phone development. If it is older than that, there is still a chance it will support Win Phone. Download the Windows Phone SDK https://dev.windowsphone.com/en-us/downloadsdk This is the latest and greatest Phone SDK as of 8/1. It requires Visual Studio 2012 and a minimum of update 2 although I would recommend going to Dreamspark Premium and downloading Update 3.
I also need to ask you guys for a favor… even if you already have Visual Studio 2012 installed, would you please log in to your new Dreamspark Premium account and download one of the Visual Studio 2012 (Professional, Premium, or Ultimate)? One of Brad Jensen’s (and his boss and his boss’ boss) metrics is the number of downloads of Visual Studio and the updates to it from Dreamspark Premium. We do our best every year to help them meet their numbers and this is a simple thing we can do for them. You don’t have to reinstall it, just download it. You do need to install Update 3 and then the Phone SDK. If your machine doesn’t support Phone, you still should install Update 3.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Janet L. Bailey, PhD
President Southwest Decision Sciences
Assoc Professor
Department of Business Information Systems
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
jlbailey@ualr.edu | drjanetbailey@live.com
Saturday, October 5th from 2:00-6:00
14008 Willow Beach Rd
MIS Fall Picnic at the Lake – Fall 2013
The MIS Faculty at UALR would like to invite you to our first annual MIS Fall Picnic.
The MIS Fall Picnic is an event intended to create a sense of community for our students, the faculty, and local businesses. We are going to mix up some food, have some fun (e.g., volleyball, kayaks, canoe, fishing, etc.), enjoy the sunshine (we have already placed our order), and have some great conversations.
Dress is casual (Dr. Woolridge will be wearing shorts and sandals assuming the weather is good), but remember there may be some potential employers in attendance. All of our MIS majors and their significant others are invited along with our MIS advisory board and other local businesses.
We hope you will mark your calendar for Saturday, October 5th, from 2:00-6:00 at Dr. Richard Woolridge’s house on Willow Beach Lake (Google maps link below). Food will be provided but please bring your own chairs and beverages.
It is important that we get a decent count of who is coming so that we can prepare the right amount of food. So, please let us know ASAP you if you are coming (e.g., 2 of us are coming) by sending an email to Lashundra Thomas (ldthomas@ualr.edu). Please RSVP by October 1st.
We are currently working on some type of carpooling system for those unable to drive themselves. Please indicate in your RSVP if you are able to provide transportation or are in need of transportation.
Windows 8 Mobile Development 