Last week Microsoft announced the new Azure Media Services video player. Here’s the biggest selling point for me: Azure Media Player utilizes industry standards, such as HTML5 (MSE/EME) to provide an enriched adaptive streaming experience. When these standards are not available on a device or in a browser, Azure Media Player automatically uses Flash and Silverlight…
I’m all about web technology for writing cross platform and mobile applications. I’ve put together a list of video resources to get you off the ground with this, regardless of whether or not you’ve ever used HTML5, CSS, or JavaScript. If you can think of others that would be useful, send them my way. HTML5…
Jason Seuss, a Principal PM Manager on the Azure Media Services team gave a great overview of this on the Azure blog. I’d advise you to read my previous two blog posts to get you prepped for the actual streaming. For those of you nto familiar with the technology, I gave a 10 minute overview…
You can find the video here. My peer in Chicago, David Giard, has a video podcast called “Technology and Friends”. During the MVP Open Days event in Philadelphia a few weeks ago, I had a chance to hop on and talk about WebGL, in addition to that, we cover asm.js, and how middleware tools like…
I gave a talk this morning at the East Coast Game Conference about the current state of WebGL for game developers. You can find the slides here. I also spoke about asm.js and how middleware vendors like Unity and Epic are using it to power the web versions of their games. Firefox currently has the…
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Source code: GitHub Live demo: http://pokemonwebaudio.azurewebsites.net/ I started working with polymer, to get a feel for what it was all about. Here’s how Google describes it: Web Components usher in a new era of web development based on encapsulated and interoperable custom elements that extend HTML itself. Built atop these new standards, Polymer makes it easier and…
Update: Rob Dodson clarified a lot of my confusion with his comment below. I’ve made changes to the post to reflect his information. Thanks again for the help! Here’s the source code for my this project, and a tutorial will follow. I’m working on a silly Polymer project right now, which parses a Pokemon database…
JavaScript study guide JavaScript is a disgusting language. But I love it! It’s riddled with awful parts, was put together in 10 days, and now we have to suffer for the next 20 years (it turns 20 in a few months). However, it’s also the duct tape of the internet, and it works just about…
This is my weekly newsletter which covers my favorite stories of the week in the fields of Tech, HTML5, Startups, Game Dev, and Venture Capital. If you find some links that you think would be useful, feel free to share! You can always subscribe (or unsubscribe) by clicking on the MailChimp widget on the right-hand side…