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Milestone 1

We came up with a roadmap to our first milestone for the “yet to be named” early reading assistant.  I spent the beginning of the week studying Xamarin Forms documentation which is a C# cross-platform mobile development toolset (https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/xamarin-forms/).  I started here because of my limited experience with mobile development.

The Enterprise Application Patterns eBook section at the end occupied the remainder of my week.  I studied the associated eShopOnContainers demo project at https://github.com/dotnet-architecture/eShopOnContainers.  Without too many challenges I could get their dev branch running with visual studio 2017, .Net Core 2, and a kindle fire on windows docker.  Microservices is the way to go for a growing company.  That said the entry point with azure containers is a little expensive for a startup with its first product.

I am hoping the Microsoft BizSpark program (https://bizspark.microsoft.com/) will accept our startup application.  Our first application lacked focus and we had not settled on a project yet so I was not too shocked by the rejection.  If we are accepted the costs will greatly be offset for the first three years as we build up the market for this reader. 


Wish us luck!

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