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The Imagine Cup is about giving students with great ideas a chance to shine! Meet the winner of the 2013 Canadian Imagine Cup who will represent us at world finals in St Petersburg Russia! The Imagine Cup challenges students to use technology to do amazing things! This year there were three categories...

Join us for the #DevMov Twitter party – an hour of tweeting, Q&A, prize giveaways, and more. Lots of students have already received rewards for their apps from Developer Movement . The Developer Movement program winds down at the end of June, but it’s not over yet! To celebrate the Grand Finale and...

Developer Movement is offering Double points for every Windows 8 app you publish until May 10th and you could win a $500 gift card! The Developer Movement program which gives Canadian developers points for publishing cool apps to the store has a new challenge! Until May 10th, for every Windows 8 app...

Started coding or publishing and got stuck? Which discussion forum should you turn to? Forums are a great resource when you get stuck. Here are some good ones for Windows 8 and Windows Phone developers. If you’ve found any great ones I should add, please share! Don't forget apps published by...

Meet the teams who will compete at the Canadian Imagine Cup Finals April 13th, 2013. The winning team at the Canadian finals will represent Canada at the world finals in St Petersburg, Russia! Last week judges played games, explored Kinect projects, and evaluated a variety of entries in Canada’s...

HTC is sponsoring the Canadian Imagine Cup and is providing some beautiful phones for the winners. Check out the specs on the HTC 8X! HTC is sponsoring the 2013 Canadian Imagine Cup and will provide sleek new Windows 8 Phones to the Canadian winners in Innovation, World Citizenship, and Games. Their...

Canada’s Developer Movement promotion that allows you to earn rewards for your apps has been extended to June 15, 2013. So you started an app and haven’t had time to finish it. Right now you are in the middle of exams, so I know you are swamped . Great news! Canada’s Developer Movement campaign has been...

Support your fellow Windows Phone developers and you could win a Nokia Lumia 920 in the process! Although the deadline has passed to enter your own apps in the Windows Phone Next App Star competition, you can still support the developers (including several Canadian developers!) in the final rounds and...

You now have two great places to call when you need help with an app: a developer mentor or an expert at the app labs in Toronto, Montreal, or Vancouver. So, who ya gonna call? I’ll give you a hint, it’s not these guys . Well maybe Dr. Venkman would know how to build an app. But I have a couple of other...

HTML5 Pong is a great template for developers who are new to HTML5/Canvas or game development in general This blog is part of a series Okay full disclosure I wrote this template but that’s not the only reason why I think its great. This template shows you how easy it is to get your game up...

The Windows Phone 8 Training Kit contains labs to help you learn how to build an app on Windows Phone 8 . Ready to jump in? Download the Windows 8 training kit and get started. Blogs and videos are great resources, but sometimes it’s nice to try out the code yourself. That’s why I like the Windows Phone...

Yetibowl is a great resource for the XNA developer who wants to learn how to cross over to HTML5/Canvas or the HTML5 developer who wants to learn games. This blog is part of a series Okay Yetibowl isn’t exactly a template, but it serves a similar purpose. A template helps you get a jumpstart on an app...

The City of Ottawa wants to reward developers for creative and useful applications that use the City Of Ottawa’s OpenData OpenData can be used to create very useful applications. The City of Ottawa wants to encourage app developers to use City of Ottawa OpenData to create apps for city residents and...

Complete challenges related to Windows Phone development, earn points, cash in points for rewards that can help you create great apps and help get them noticed! Canada has already got a great program to reward developers with cool stuff called Developer Movement . Now, Windows Phone developers can double...

The App Pitch Competition is coming to Launch Academy in Vancouver March 13, 2013 The App Pitch is the opportunity to show the Vancouver startup‚ student and developer community your app ideas for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. Register to pitch your app as an individual or as a team of two. You will...

Microsoft Research has developed an app called TouchDevelop that lets you build Windows 8 apps by touch. You can run the app from an iPhone, iPad, Android, PC, Mac, or Windows Phone. Touchdevelop is a project by Microsoft Research that allows you to build an app with touch. You write scripts by tapping...

Skulls of the Shogun is a fun multi-player game that brings to life the concept of 3 screens and the cloud We have phones, we have tablets, and we have console games. When we find a game we love shouldn’t it work on all three? Skulls of the Shogun developed by 17-BIT does a great job of doing just that...

This video shows you how a web developer can use appMobi to build cross-platform apps with HTML and JavaScript There are many videos out there, we wanted to dig through and share some of the best, we hope you enjoy this new series. In this video, Microsoft evangelist Dave Ibitski invites appMobi developer...

Did you know Microsoft provides free courseware for professors and instructors? The Faculty Connection is a website that provides free courseware and resources for instructors of all levels. Here are some of the most popular recent downloads Designing for Modern UI – Designing for the Windows 8 platform...

What do you need to build a Windows Phone 8 app? Windows Phone 8 was released at the end of 2012 and I am already getting questions from students about developing and testing Windows Phone 8 apps. First of all let me clear up two common misconceptions Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 are not the same platform...

The App Pitch Competition is coming to MaRS Discovery District in Toronto, January 29th, 2013 The App Pitch is the opportunity to show the Toronto startup‚ student and developer community your app ideas for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. Register to pitch your app as an individual or as a team...

How will Canadians compete in this year’s Imagine Cup? What prizes can they get? Here’s the scoop Last year Canadian students showed off amazing creativity in the 2012 Imagine Cup, and team Greeni from George Brown College travelled to Australia to represent Canada at the worldwide finals. This year...

An app can’t be great at everything, what will your app be best at? Figure that out you are well on you way to a great app This blog is part of a series, you can see all the posts in the series here . We all know the value of apps, we’ve used good apps, and lousy apps. We appreciate...

This series features interviews with Windows Phone app developers who share the lessons they learned building windows phone applications. This week’s interview features Studio SYD, a software development startup who built a game called InkSpill Could you briefly describe your application/game? InkSpill...

Waterloo WOWZAPP 2012 was an amazing experience! We were thrilled to see the creative work that people came up with in less than a day’s work. Our advertisement efforts successfully reached out to almost 70 students including nearby colleges. We started the event with a brief presentation on Windows...