I aint afraid of no ghosts – Ray Parker Jr. Amanda Lange (@Second_Truth) and I went ghost hunting around Philadelphia earlier this summer. We started at Drexel University, then made our way out to the suburbs of Exton, to record a series of videos around a device we created this summer. ———————– @DaveVoyles Subscribe to…
Link to the event. At 8:30am in the morning, we held a Sport Talk panel at the Quorum, where we discussed the intersection between technology and sports, but physical and eSports. Our partners at Seventy Six Capital coordinated this with the University City Science Center, and we had a packed room of 120+ people, and…
Philly Dev Night community put together their annual toy drive for the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHoP), and this time it was at the Microsoft Reactor. We had well over 60 people in attendance, and the Dev Night team asked that anyone who attended bring a gift for a child. For those who didn’t, we…
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…
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…
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…
Microsoft’s Reactor at the University City Science Center is open for business, as we celebrated our grand opening yesterday evening. Technical.ly Philly did a great story on it, which you can find here. I’m still building out the Reactor website, which will soon have individual landing pages for each of our locations, in San Francisco, NYC,…