My 10th weekly newsletter is out!

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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…

My 9th weekly newsletter of not-so-great tech stuff

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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…

Pitch your idea to Microsoft Ventures NYC Meetup

Microsoft Ventures is hosting a pitch event at  The Invisible Dog  in Brooklyn, on July 17th at 6pm. It’s my understanding that this accelerator is focused on connected devices startups and home automation. Microsoft has recently made a big push in the IoT space (Internet of Things), and this is a step further in that…