Gil Almogi has loved video games since he was young. To that end, he is a freelance video game critic. The majority of his work up until recently appeared on Game Revolution, but he has also written for the Sumthing Else blog, Armless Octopus, and Game Music Fans. His particular interests when it comes to…
While looking for an answer on Stack Overflow one day, I saw several people recommend this book, to get a grasp on what was happening under the hood of my computer — specifically, from beginning to end, how is a computer made? You can find the book here. This book broke it down in such…
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…
A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to present the work of Microsoft, the University of Washington, and Twist Bioscience, where the teams have been utilizing DNA to store information. This was part of Singh Nano Week at the University of Pennsylvania. You can read all about it here. This talk was put together…
Azure for Startups GitHub repo was recently launched to help startups understand and engage with the Azure products and services most relevant to them. The repo includes targeted tutorials, code samples, templates and documentation – both unique content created by the Startup Evangelism team specifically for startups, as well as links to relevant content on…
Tobiah Zarlez & I illustrate how to create digital portfolios by creating websites on Azure to showcase your work. Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/TobiahZarlez http://www.twitter.com/DaveVoyles Web: http://www.TobiahZ.com http://www.DaveVoyles.com ———————– @DaveVoyles Subscribe to my startup, tech, and game dev newsletter
I had a meeting with a Microsoft partner earlier today and had to research several questions regarding Power BI for them. Hopefully you’ll find them to be helpful as well: Can you stream data into Power BI? Yes. This document shows you how. Any visual or dashboard that can be created in Power BI can…
Learning a new front-end framework can be time consuming and often very difficult, due to the complexity that JavaScript allows for because it is a dynamically typed language. Whenever I learn something new, I create a new tab in OneNote and keep a list of the tutorials, helpful GitHub repos, and questions I have along the way. It’s only…
One of my colleagues at Microsoft, David Catuhe (@DeltaKosh) has been building Babylon.js, a free and open source WebGL framework for gaming and visualizations over the last few years. I fell in love with it immediately, largely due to the documentation, samples, and sandbox to learn and play around in. ———————– @DaveVoyles Subscribe to my…
A Technical Evangelist is basically a developer who talks to developers. We build open source content, share the work that technical communities are doing, and grow developer ecosystems in the cities that we live in. I get asked this question all of the time, so I figured I’d put together a short video during my…