I’ve been traveling up and down the east coast giving talks at Angelbeat, a roadshow of talks on security/compliance, cloud/virtualization/sdn, storage/backup/infrastructure, network/mobility/voip and big data/hadoop. My talk was on Microsoft’s efforts with the open source community and security for Windows 10 and Azure. Take a gander. Microsoft on open source and security from David Voyles ———————–…
This evening I gave a talk at the Philly.NET user group, out of Microsoft’s Malvern office. Joel Martinez, a SDE on the Xamarin team suggested I talk about Xamarin Workbooks, Xamarin’s latest offering, which provide a blend of documentation and code that is perfect for experimentation, learning, and creating guides and teaching aids. Workbooks allow you…
Microsoft has a great community of MVPs, or Most Valuable Professionals, whom we acknowledge annually for their commitment to their community and helping others. Recently, a group of MVPs gathered to plan TechBash, a technical conference in the Poconos at Kalahari Resorts, about 2 hours north of Philadelphia, and 2 hours west of New York.…
Link to the podcast I had the opportunity to speak with Chad Bostic of Hello Tech Pros last week and join him on his podcast and share my story. Chad has a number of interesting topics covered each week, including entrepreneurship, motivation, and productivity, but what I like most is that he gets the human…
@JamesQQuick@DaveVoyles So you’ve created a web app (a website designed for a mobile device), but now you need to figure out how to debug it, because the mobile browser just doesn’t have the tool built in. In comes Vorlon, a free tool to do exactly that. Dave Voyles joins James Quick to show us how…
Shawn Wildermuth shawn@wildermuth.com, a long-time Microsoft MVP, author, speaker, and community leader has created a speaking tour called “Hello World Road Trip”, for this spring (http://hwroadtrip.com). This event is a free, community event that he’s holding in 25 cities. Included in the FREE event: + Hello World Podcast Live (they will record the Hello World…
What’s to come? The moment is quickly approaching to cheer on 15 teams with world-changing software innovations at the US Imagine Cup Finals, Microsoft’s premier student technology competition. Finalists will compete for a chance to win $4,000, startup and tech cred, and an opportunity to advance to the Global Imagine Cup finals for the $50,000…
As part of this commitment I am pleased to announce today that Microsoft has signed an agreement to acquire Xamarin, a leading platform provider for mobile app development. In conjunction with Visual Studio, Xamarin provides a rich mobile development offering that enables developers to build mobile apps using C# and deliver fully native mobile app experiences…
I get asked this question pretty often, and I usually respond with “A developer who talks to developers”, but this recent interview between John Shewchuk and Business Insider explains it pretty well. The Developer Experience team is intended to be the company’s public face among the techie set, parachuting in to help customers and partners with whatever…
View the VorlonJS dashboard and test site What problem do these two things solve? ManifoldJS aims to make the life of a mobile developer easier than ever, by utilizing Web App Manifests, which allowing websites to declare app-like properties. ManifoldJS uses that standard for those platforms that support it, but falls back to Cordova for those…