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...

Jim , Peter , and I are gearing up for another road trip to spread the goodness that is Windows Azure! The Windows Azure DevCamp series launched recently with a two-day event in Silicon Valley, and we’re jumping on the bandwagon for the East Region. We...

Rock, Paper, Azure (RPA) is back!   For those of you who have played before, be sure to get back in the game !  If you haven’t heard of RPA, check out my past posts on the subject .   In short, RPA is a game that we built in Windows...

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...

It’s a Sweepstakes!  and It’s a Competition! Our previous RockPaperAzure tournaments were all about coding a winning Rock Paper Scissors “bot”, just a bit of code (deployed as an assembly) that you write to return one of the game moves.  We...

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...

Did you know that smart phone data usage increased by 89% in the year ending June 2011?  or that there were estimated to be 5.3 billion mobile subscriptions by the end of 2010 ?  or that 90% of the worlds population is in an area with mobile...

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...

Brian , Peter , and I are gearing up for another roadtrip to spread the goodness that is Windows Azure!  The Windows Azure DevCamp series launched just last week with a two-day event in Silicon Valley, and we’re jumping on the bandwagon for the East...