I’ve always found Douglas Crockford to be such an interesting person, because of his intimate knowledge of JavaScript. From Wikipedia: …best known for his ongoing involvement in the development of the JavaScript language, for having popularized the data format JSON (JavaScript Object Notation), and for developing various JavaScript related tools such as JSLint and JSMin.[2]…
UPDATE, 9/13/16: This project is no cancelled. Miguel de Icaza outlined why in this post from May: Hello, As you guys have noticed, the experience to setup Mono with Unreal Engine is not very pleasant. It involves compiling code from source, it involves a specific version of Unreal and has a very long and tedious installation…
Educators You can get Azure for 5 months, and it’s free to use in your curriculum. If you’re looking for resources, I’ve got tons and tons for you, as a well as BIzSpark for your students who are looking to start their own projects outside of school. Reach out to me! Here’s a Frequently Asked Questions…
Today we are launching the v2 SDK and a new adapter that will allow you to use a standalone Xbox One sensor with a PC. That means we’ve got a commercial, go-live license now for the SDK and Kinect-Enabled apps can be ingested into the Windows Store. The adapter ($49.99 USD) will get us into…
Great episode of Planet Money on NPR this week: What was going on in 1984 that made so many women give up on computer science? They illustrate the barriers of entry that many people faced in the 80s. Notably, many men picked up computers because they could be assembled from kits at Radio Shack…
I wrote this Cordova app last year for a game studio that some friends run a game studio in Seattle, called Ska Studios. I had the app sitting around, so I figured I’d write a detailed readme and post it to GitHub, so that students can use it as a template for their projects. I…
I wish they would have had something like this when I was in school. There’s even a category for games right now. If you’re working on something with Unity, or another middleware engine, I’d love to hear about it. I can also grant you BizSpark, to help get started, with free software, hardware, and…
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We had a great meeting for Philadelphia Game Works last night, at the Microsoft Malvern office. Group founder, Chris Gomez (@SpaceShot) is in the photo above, getting things started. We spoke about WebGL and how to get started with the open source engine, BabylonJS. The next meeting is on Wednesday the 30th, and we’ll be…
We’re hosting several Azure camps throughout the country this fall, and it will be organized by fellow evangelists, as well as members of our Azure team. You will learn how to use the new Microsoft Azure features and services like Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines, Websites, and Visual Studio 2013 to build and move a variety…