Join us for an Orchard CMS developer’s meetup, which will be held online on Tuesday, March 6, 2012. Date: Tuesday, March 6, 2012 Time: 8 AM Pacific, 4 PM UTC ( other timezones ) Location: http://www.livestream...

With the recent release of the Kinect for Windows hardware and SDK, I thought I’d highlight the cool work my friends Matt Bell and Dave Gausebeck have been doing at MatterPort . In the early days of Kinect programming in late 2010, countless hobbyists...

As you may know, the Azure SDK for Node.js includes a Storage Emulator for development purposes.  This lets you code against a local storage system using the Azure table, blob, and queue APIs rather than needing something configured in the public...

I’ve been playing with Node.js on Azure for the past couple of weeks. In case you didn’t know, Node is a fully supported development option on Azure. There’s an official open source SDK, which as of version 0.5.2 supports Azure tables...

Virtualization is here to stay. It doesn’t matter if you're an IT Professional for a multinational company, or running a small business, chances are virtualization is making an impact on how you work. Developers are also leveraging virtualization...

Do you like free stuff? Are you a startup? Microsoft supports Startup America , which offers the following for free: Expertise - Weekly pitch coaching sessions with Nathan Gold Ask the VC Virtual Round Tables with folks like Brad Feld...

Due to travel, I haven't been able to have a Windows Phone study group meetup in San Francisco for a few weeks, but that's about to change. On Thursday, 17-Nov-2011, I'll present Chapter 3 from Adam Nathan's book 101 Windows Phone 7 Apps . The app we...

Thanks to those of you who made it to the Windows Phone Camp in Sunnyvale, CA on October 20 & 21, 2011. My talk was Building Windows Phone 7.5 Apps with Silverlight , and the slides are below. For those of you who couldn't make it in person, you can...

We recently announced the Windows Phone Inner Circle tour with stops all over the US this fall. Be sure to put Wednesday, November 2, 2011 on your calendar if you're in San Francisco. The event will be from 6 - 9 PM, but as of today I'm unsure of the...

If you’d like a free pass to the O’Reilly Android Open Conference reception in San Francisco on Monday, October 10, 2011, just send me an email by clicking Email Blog Author on the right. Note that the free pass is only for the reception on...

With the impending release of Mango, I thought it was time to start a group for Windows Phone developers in San Francisco. You can find us through the easily remembered URL http://create.msdn.com/sf , which redirects to the group’s homepage on meetup...

  In case you’re not familiar with it, Gamefest is a conference for game developers and designers targeting Microsoft platforms including Xbox, Windows Phone 7, and Windows desktops.  It will be held in three cities in the summer of 2011: July...

For my inaugural blog post, I’d like to announce an exciting C++ event on June 29, 2011, in Santa Clara, CA. Microsoft and NVIDIA are teaming up to bring a full evening of C++ content. Headlining the event is Herb Sutter from Microsoft , who’ll...