The Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows 8 makes it quick and easy for developers to create Windows Metro Style applications that can harness the power of Windows Azure.  A refresh of this toolkit (to work with the Windows 8 Consumer Preview) has recently been announced by Microsoft. Nick Harris and...

  Part 1 – The beginning Part 2 – Moving stuff around Part 3- Simple Parallax Stars – You Are Here! With our last tutorial we showed you how you could move an object on the screen with key events. Today we are going to start building the main structure of our game, and get a star field up and running...

Part 1 – The beginning Part 2 – Moving stuff around – You Are Here! Part 3- Simple Parallax Stars Hi ok this is part 2 of the HTML 5 game tutorial, in this section we are going to cover some simple animation and how to handle input. So last time we showed you how to draw a square on the screen that didn...

  Part 1 – The beginning – You Are Here! Part 2 – Moving stuff around Part 3- Simple Parallax Stars Recently there has been a ton of talk around HTML 5 and the canvas so i decided that I needed to build some tutorials. In this effort I decided to do one of the things I love and that was build a...

Kitten up a tree? Granny struggling to cross the road? The red velvet cupcakes are finished? No problem; HTML5 will solve all! It’s been the biggest thing in web since the browser wars in the late 90’s, but finally HTML5 and CSS3 are coming down the straight. We’re possibly still a good 5-8yrs away from...

Internet Explorer 9 RTW is now available for download. After a first preview at PDC 2009, a first Platform Preview at MIX 2010, a Beta in September 2010 and RC in February 2011: we’ve gone through a lot to bring a more beautiful web. A more beautiful web We are also bringing more content to the local...

(South Africans are NOT excluded from this one – bonus!) Making the web beautiful with HTML5 The MIX Online team worked with Joshua Davis Studios , to create the Endless Mural for the Microsoft IE9 launch. We’re now launching Okapi, an open-source framework to create your own digital, generative art...