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…
During this web development session I cover the history of web dev for the first 30 minutes, as well as showcase some examples of what is possible on the web today. Following that, I go through a workshop with students where we cover the Kahn Academy’s introduction to HTML/CSS course, which can be found here.…
During this session I go over various tools and technologies for creating art assets for games, in both 2D and 3D. Some tools I cover include photoshop, crazy bump, and Unity. ———————– @DaveVoyles Subscribe to my startup, tech, and game dev newsletter
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…
Unity, the popular middleware tools frequently used by game developers are not limited to creating compiled applications that run as an executable. Unity previously had a web player, which was a downloadable plugin that used ActiveX. Chrome killed support for NPAP (Netscape Plugin API), but announced it over one year ago. In April, with the…
Randy Guthrie, an Academic Evangelist on our Evangelism team at Microsoft, put together a great set of video tutorials for students who take advantage of DreamSpark. He also teaches at Arizona State, and has an active blog there for his students. DreamSpark is a Microsoft program to provide students with software design and development tools at…
UPDATED: 2/2/16 I have a video overview for all of this now, too. Writing code for multiple platforms can be a lot of work. It can be even more work to have to completely rewrite it for each one, too. What if you wrote an application in C++, but wanted it to be displayed in…
We’ve got a Reddit thread for this, whith lots of conversation happening. For this ongoing event, I plan on illustrating a number of ways that you can get started in the gaming industry, regardless of your background. You don’t need to be a rock star programmer or have a degree in fine art to begin.…
UPDTE: Lots of conversation going on at Reddit regarding this post. A common question I receive is “How do I get into the gaming Industry?” In fact, I was just part of a panel at PAX covering this exact topic. I’m going to take what I’ve learned from those panelists, and put it into a…
Create a WordPress on Azure using DreamSpark from joescars My colleague in Florida, Joe Raio, put together a great power point deck on how to create a WordPress site in Azure using DreamSpark. DreamSpark is MIcrosoft’s free iniative for students to take advantage of our software and platform, such as Azure. If your school…