Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova Azure VM Available

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…

BizSpark: Free software and cloud services for your startup

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…

Azure overview presentation at Microsoft DC campus

Today, my talented co-worker Yung Cho and I gave a day-long presentation on Azure, and how to take advantage of the cloud. I’m not nearly as proficient with Azure as he is, so it was great to have him there, and he really stole the show. Microsoft made these free, one-day instructor-led workshops available in cities across…