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Bob Familiar is the Director of Technical Evangelism for Microsoft DPE East Region. The Technical Evangelism team works with students, professional developers and IT pros to help them learn, adopt and use the Microsoft developer platform to design and build the next generation of apps for Windows 8, Windows Phone and Windows Azure and use Windows server 2012 to build, deploy and manage private and public cloud infrastructure.
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Bob’s Blog Has Moved
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Bob’s blog has moved to this site: http://theundocumentedapi.com Please update your bookmarks. Thanks! –bob
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Windows 8 Game and App Mashup Series
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Please join us at a FREE Windows 8 Developer Workshop near you! Check out the sessions below and select the workshop that best fits your needs — or join us for both events. The choice is yours. Keep in mind, separate registration is required. Game Development...
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Building Windows Games with Unity
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+ = Event Dates Pre-Event: Monday, April 8 Main Event: Tuesday, April 9 Game Jam: Wed, April 10 Event Location Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus Galileo Room SVC Conference Center 1065 La Avenida Mountain View, California 94043 United States Live...
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Achieve 2013 – EduTech Family Summit, Boston January 26th
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I wanted to let you know about an upcoming event in Boston that colleagues, students, staff, and families are encouraged to attend. The EduTech Summit is a Microsoft YouthSpark program intended to provide information and access about tools and...
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Building Apps for Windows Phone 8 Jump Start
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Building Apps for Windows Phone 8 Jump Start This two-day online course is specially tailored for developers looking to leverage C#/XAML to build cool apps and games for Windows Phone 8. Clearly, this platform is another leap forward in Microsoft’s overall...
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Windows Store App Development for iOS Developers
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Event Date Thursday December 13, 2012 Friday December 14, 2011 Welcome Time: 8:30 AM Event Time: 9 AM – 4:30 PM Evening Social: Thursday December 13, 6 PM – 8 PM Event Location Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus Galileo Room SVC Conference Center 1065 La...
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Building Windows Store Games with Unity
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Event Dates Camp: Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012 Hackathon: Friday, Nov. 30, 2012 Event Location Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus Galileo Room SVC Conference Center 1065 La Avenida Mountain View, California 94043 United...
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Windows 8 App Development: Resources for iOS Developers
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over 3 years ago
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Windows 8 provides a great opportunity for mobile developers to expand their audience and reach a new user base. Now is the time to get your app into the Windows 8 Store and being reaping the benefits of being an early adopter. To make the migration...
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MonkeySpace @ NERD – the official cross platform and open-source .NET conference
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over 3 years ago
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MonkeySpace , formerly known as Monospace, is the official cross platform and open-source .NET conference. Want to learn more about developing for the iPhone, Android, Mac, and *nix platforms using .NET technologies? How about developing games or learning...
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The Windows 8 Store is Open for Business!!
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Windows Store app submission is now open to all registered Store developers – individuals and companies. Create your Store developer account and submit your apps today! With more than 630 million Windows 7 licenses sold to date, across 200+ countries...
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Windows 8 Game Development For The Win
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With the recent announcement by Unity and Epic on tool and framework support for Windows 8, I thought it would be good to review all the options for game development on Windows 8 and provide pointers to the support you need to get your game in the store...
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Windows 8, XNA and MonoGame - Part 3, Getting Windows 8 Store Ready
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over 3 years ago
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In Part 1 of this series I introduced you to MonoGame for Windows8, an implementation of the XNA namespace that allows you to get your XNA code running on Windows 8 as a Metro Style App. In Part 2 I documented how to get your development environment configured...
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Windows 8, XNA and MonoGame - Part 2, Getting Started
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In part 1 of this series I gave you an overview of MonoGame , an open source cross platform implementation of the XNA namespace and class model and how you could use that to port you existing XNA code to Windows 8. In this article, I will show you how...
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Windows 8, XNA and MonoGame – Part 1, Overview
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Games are likely some of the most popular apps on Windows 8 and you are in a great position to take advantage of this huge opportunity. How huge? The Windows Store Blog sums it up well: ...
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Launch your Windows 8 App in 30 Days
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You can develop a Windows 8 app in 30 days—and we’re here to help. Begin your 30-day journey to create a Windows 8 Metro style app. Sign up to get started and receive: Insider tips and tricks on Windows 8 application development. Personal on-the...
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Windows 8 App Development Virtual Labs Go Live
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With Windows 8, developers can leverage their existing skills and code assets to create Metro style apps. Step into these virtual labs and learn how to build, share and sell interesting and easy-to-use applications that will make your customers happy...
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Windows 8 Developer Camps and Hackathons – Coming July to September
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A new series of Windows 8 developer events are coming soon! These are special two-day events , with a DevCamp on day one featuring a full day of sessions plus an InstallFest, followed on day two by a Hackathon with Lightning Talks where you can...
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Learn The Cloud. Make A Difference. @home with Windows Azure
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How does learning about cloud computing while contributing to scientific research sound to you? Join us for @home with Windows Azure to get a solid understanding of the Windows Azure platform while giving back to a very deserving cause. What is @home...
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The HackReady.Phone WebCast Series
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over 3 years ago
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Join us for HackReady, the new online learning series designed for developers to bring you the vital bits you need, without the fluff you won’t miss. Full of key information and demonstrations, this series gives you a solid understanding of the tools...
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Windows Reimagined–April 19th, New York, NY
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Windows reimagined. Learn everything you need to start building Metro-style apps for Windows today at our free, full-day Windows Developer Event. We'll show you how to use Visual Studio to code fast, fluid, immersive and beautiful Metro-style applications...
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Parallelism, Performance and Many Integrated Core–Intel Developer Seminar
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Intel Software Development Tools for Parallelism, Performance and Many Integrated Core (MIC) from Intel with demonstrations of Intel ® Parallel Studio XE and Intel® Cluster Studio XE Learn directly from Intel when you attend this free one-day course on...
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Want to Get and Keep a Job…Coding Seems to be the Key
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over 3 years ago
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Tara Walker has a terrific post on the how technical skills such as software development of apps is a great opportunity for students and for professionals booking for their next move. Tara writes… “Today I read a commentary out of the San Francisco Bay...
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Big App On Campus! Your Time to Shine!
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over 3 years ago
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We see new, amazing experiences created every day by student developers and we wanted to come up with a way to return the favor: we are partnering with the band The Gracious Few (featuring members of the bands LIVE and Candlebox ) to create an amazing...
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15yr old college junior at Morehouse demonstrates developer expertise
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over 4 years ago
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Tara Walker provides details on this amazing 15 year old junior at Morehouse College and his passion for software. Read more… Technorati Tags: Morehouse , XNA , XBox , child prodigy , Microsoft , game development , gaming , appLab
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The Rock Paper Azure Challenge is back and you could win big!
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over 4 years ago
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Sweepstakes – one winner of $5000 chosen at random on Dec. 16th at 6 p.m. ET To enter the sweepstakes all you have to do is enter a bot , any bot – even the precoded ones we provide – into the game between now and 6 p.m. ET on Dec. 16th. No ninja...
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