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]…
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…
Update: User pyalot on reddit has pointed me towards an excellent site for tracking WebGL usage and statistics: http://webglstats.com/. WebGL Stats uses a tracker frame embedded in other sites to collect the data. You can help too, just embed the code below into your page. <script src=”//cdn.webglstats.com” defer=”defer” async=”async”></script> Back to the original post. The web is…
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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…
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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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…
That’s usually the first question I get asked, when working with folks who have not programmed before. This is immediately followed by “which language do I start with?” There is no right or wrong answer, but I can tell you what worked for me. Starting off I started with C#, using Microsoft’s XNA gaming framework…