I’ve been pushing for HTML5 tools for some time now. Today, the VIsual Studio team announced a VM that you can instantly deploy in Azure, which comes pre-installed with everything that you’ll need to get going with writing iOS (yes, in Visual Studio), Android, and Windows apps in Visual Studio. No crazy downloading and installing…
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I’ve been listening to podcasts since I was in college. It was part of my daily commute, driving from my home in the suburbs of Long Island, to NYIT in Old Westbury. Since that time, my tastes have changed a bit, but my love of podcasts hasn’t. In fact, we’ve done over 100 episodes in…
I haven’t written anything personal about myself here in a while, so I thought it’s about time I got back to that. I’m going to post about the games that I’m currently playing on occasion, and I’d love to see what you think about these games, as well as what you are currently playing. The…
We have two new gaming courses on MVA in the last few weeks. All of the assets and slides are available through the links below. Enjoy, and let me know what you think! Developing 2D & 3D Games with Unity Developing 2D & 3D Games with Unity We went over a number of courses, including:…
I love our push for independent developers. ID@Xbox is consistently launching new games, and on the Windows and Phone side of things we have a new gaming blog, where we highlight some of the best games that developers are working on, as well as the middleware makers providing our tools. I’ve highlighted some of those…
UPDATE: The video is online now. Stacey Mulcahy and I are putting together a brief video series for Microsoft Virtual Academy next week. If you’re interested in learning how to write SPAs, debug using Visual Studio or the new F12 developer tools, and want to know how deploy to Azure, then we’ve got all of that…
I’ve been a proponent for HTML5 for some time now (and better WebGL support!), so naturally today was an exciting day for me, as a web developer at Microsoft. This morning we posted a new blog that talks about Internet Explorer and the Windows 10 Technical Preview, which describes the changes to IE in…
Fellow Tech Evangelist, Joe Healy, put together a great set of slides on how to open your developer account via DreamSpark. Joe Healy – How to set up your DreamSpark account from Dave Voyles Not sure if your school has DreamSpark? Head over to https://www.dreamspark.com/Institution/Access.aspx look at the lower right for this image Type in…
I’m giving a series of talks this month around Philly, so I wanted to share them with you. Developing your first JavaScript game in WebGL using BabylonJS Philly Game Work Date: Thursday Oct 15th, 5:30 – 8pm Location: Microsoft, Malvern PA Are you a web developer? The web browser is a great platform for all…