November, 2011

This Thursday, my colleague Sanjay Jain & I will be at the New Jersey Technology Council in Jersey City, NJ.  Details on the event below via Sanjay’s blog … The New Jersey Technology Council (NJTC) is hosting a BigData Analytics event on Thursday...

It’s Monday after the big Thanksgiving holiday weekend here in the US.  You’re back at the grind, heads down in e-mail, and perhaps even some code.  All the usual manic Monday comments are flooding your social network feeds. The Boomtown Rats...

Last week, the Windows Phone Marketplace hit 40,000 apps .  The prediction is that it will hit 50,000 in January 2012, which would be two months longer than the iPhone AppStore , and 4 months faster than Android Market took to hit the same milestone...

I’m excited to announce that the Rock Paper Azure Challenge is back again for a 3rd iteration! This time around, we’ve made some more minor tweaks, and added some stellar prizes, including a trip to Cancun, Mexico! I first announced the Rock Paper Azure...

Just learned of another opportunity to learn to develop Windows Phone apps going on in NYC!  The NYC Windows Phone User Group is going to be hosting a hackathon at the Microsoft offices in NYC on Saturday December 10th, 2011 .  My teammate Dani...

A couple of weeks ago, I posted about the HTML5 Game Camps going on this month and December. ( NYC is 12/9 & Penn State is 12/14 .)  There’s a lot going on when it comes to gaming… not just playing them, but also developing them.  If you...

My teammate, Glen Gordon , has begun a blog series on tips and tricks to get your HTML5 site running on windows Phone using Phone Gap . PhoneGap is an HTML5 app platform that allows you to author native applications with web technologies and get access...

Santa seems to have come early this year for Windows Azure developers.  (Yes, I know… it’s not even Thanksgiving yet!)   I just saw over on the Windows Azure blog that version 1.6 of the Windows Azure SDK is out .  The SDK seems to...

Joomla! Day NYC 2011 was hosted in the Microsoft NYC office over the weekend of October 21st through October 23rd. A Joomla!Day is a local, regional or national gathering of the Joomla! community. It is like a “ code camp ” for those interested in learning...

It’s time for another round of Windows Azure events on the US east coast!  Last spring, Jim , Brian , and I brought the Windows Azure Tech Jam to 5 locations in Pennsylvania, Florida, and North Carolina.  Two weeks ago, the new Windows Azure...

Disclaimer: This post is rated “M” for Marketeering.  It contains hyperbole and gross marketing-speak, including terms like “growing your brand”, “stickiness”, and “social media”. Please allow your reality to be momentarily distorted. My teammate...

Last week, I posted about a Windows Phone event that would be taking place in Herald Square in NYC today. It was the consumer launch event for Windows Phone 7.5 (aka “Mango”). The Windows Phone team was coy with what they had planned for today...

It’s been about 13 years now since I graduated college and joined the tech industry.  Over that time, I have observed and participated in repeated discussions about two topics that I think are closely related:  Professionalism & Women in...

Herald Square - New York City If you’re going to be in New York City on Monday, November 7, you might not want to miss this BIG event! To celebrate the launch of the new Windows Phone, Microsoft is hosting an event to showcase what it means for...