On Wednesday, Nov 16th, I attend an event hosted by Bunker Labs, the national nonprofit empowering veteran entrepreneurs, is celebrating its first year in Philly with a celebration of veteran entrepreneurship. The Muster PHL: Big Ideas for America event was held at the at the newly-inaugurated Pennovation Center, Upenn’s co-working space with some incredible projects going on, many…
How do I schedule events at the Reactor? Email MSFTReactorPHL@microsoft.com, and we will work with the University City Science Center to get you on the calendar. Does it cost anything to host events? There is a $250 cleanup & security fee for events between 5:00pm- 8pm, but Microsoft can often foot the bill. Reach out to…
Wordpress powers 25% of the internet, and hosts everything from blogs and personal projects to e-commerce sites. I want to show you how to create a free wordpress site of your own, utilizing Microsoft’s BizSpark program for Startups, and a Azure. Using Azure SQL as a database for Wordpres Typically, wordpress sites use MySQL…
Jumping into a new tech scene can be a daunting task. When I came from New York, it took me a while to understand which meetups to attend, who I needed to speak to, and specifically what industry the city was known for. A number of these links came from Yuriy Porytko, who gave me…
I had the pleasure of speaking at David Rice’s CIS 105 class at Temple University today, and for the last 3 semesters I have been speaking with entry level Computer Science class, which is required for all students who are currently in, or considering the major. Some resources mentioned: Nextplex Meetup.com Philly Codefest BizSpark DreamSpark…
My Tech Evangelist colleagues, Joe Raio and Brian Sherwin, have create a great set of video tutorials on how to create your own website using Azure. This is part of Microsoft’s Choose to Code campaign, which guides your middle and high school students through a series of online tutorials walking them through the process of creating and…
CNBC recently wrote an article titled How to get Microsoft to mentor your big idea, which I wanted to share, because I get asked this exact question pretty frequently. Last summer I also shared my slide deck, which was an overview of Microsoft Ventures. From the article: Microsoft is one of many companies that have created…
Over the last two years I’ve collected a ton of resources for students and startups, so I thought I’d finally create one blog post to combine them all. If you feel that I’m missing anything, leave a note in the comments and I’d be glad to add it! Programming / Web Where do I get…
Test this out now For the last few months I’ve been wanting to dive into this new JavaScript framework since I saw their launch event in October of 2014. Famo.us includes an open source 3D layout engine fully integrated with a 3D physics animation engine that can render to DOM, Canvas, or WebGL In short,…
I’m all about web technology for writing cross platform and mobile applications. I’ve put together a list of video resources to get you off the ground with this, regardless of whether or not you’ve ever used HTML5, CSS, or JavaScript. If you can think of others that would be useful, send them my way. HTML5…