In October, I wrote about how I would get started with programming, knowing what I do today. With this post, I wanted to explain how I got started in game devleopment and programming. This all ties into the latest promotion that Microsoft has for students. I’ve been pushing for the return of Dream.Build.Play, an XNA…
There are a number of big updates to announce this week for Cordova on Microsoft platforms. We’ve had Cordova tools built into Visual Studio for some time now, which allows developers to write and test on iOS, Android, and Windows Phone, all from within Visual Studio. Apache Cordova offers JavaScript APIs that gives Web apps…
In my previous tutorial series, I wrote about how to use prime[31]’s Azure plugin to connect your Win8 Unity game. Recently though, they’ve added support for Windows Phone as well. I’ve updated the GitHub Repository with the necessary changes so that it works on both platforms.’ Download the file You only need to make a few…
This is one part of the video series I did for Microsoft VIrtual Academy. Here’s the link back to Channel 9. You can find the step-by-step walkthrough, GitHub,and power points here. Developing 2D & 3D Games with Unity for Windows: (09) Prime[31] and Azure Mobile Services | Developing 2D & 3D Games with Unity for Windows…
We had a great e-mail thread going with several co-workers last week, and Jeremy Foster gave an excellent recap on how to publish your podcast to various services. Everything below are his words, and I found them to be extremely useful, so I thought I’d share. iTunes Install iTunes and “submit a podcast”. I…
RESOURCES: You can find the source for this project on my GitHub. Power point slides Get this working on Windows Phone In part 2 of my tutorial, I showed you how you how to set up the initial project with prime[31]. Now that we have it built, I’m going to walk you through the code, as…
Jennifer Marsman wrote a great post on her MSDN blog about the benefits of BizSpark and how to get started with the program. This step-by-step tutorial can help get you enrolled as well. Perks of the program: http://wootstudio.ca/startups/bizspark.aspx Windows 10 developer accounts (Xbox, Windows) Visual Studio Ultimate licenses Windows licenses (multiple versions) Office 365 developer account…
A few months back, I wrote a piece on a high level overview of Microsoft’s Web App Template. I’ve recently learned that it not only works on Windows 8, but is also applicable to Win Phone 8, with Universal support coming soon. So why would anyone ever wrap their site and turn it into an app? Well…
Today I made the switch from the iPhone 5 on Verizon, to a Lumia 1520 on AT&T. I’ve been in the Apple ecosystem for the last 3 years, so making the change was nerve-wracking, to say the least. Calculating the cost I have a number of AT&T devices through work, but I could never use…
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