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Providing practical developer content on Windows 8, Windows Phone, and Windows Azure
Trade Up Your Device - Get Up to $350 Back
Just got wind of a fantastic program we've kicked off. Trade in your old iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry,...
Date: 09/18/2013
Intro to Game Development for Windows - Sep. 21
Nothing like an amazing time at Boston FIG to get you in the mood to start your game development...
Date: 09/17/2013
Build and App (or Game) Workshops
Michael, Steve, Josh, and I are kicking off the “school year” with another series of Saturday...
Date: 09/03/2013
Technical Calendar - September 2013
Boston Windows Dev Meetup events Northeast User Group Map and Calendars Sunday Monday Tuesday...
Date: 08/30/2013
Build Apps. Get Stuff.
Are you looking to build your first Windows Phone or Windows 8 app? Got an iOS or Android app and...
Date: 08/30/2013
And Then There Were Four
As many of us are gearing up for the new school year or rebooting various user groups following a...
Date: 08/28/2013
Building Your First Windows Phone App
What’s cooler than showing off your new Nokia Lumia 1020? Showing off your own Windows Phone app...
Date: 08/19/2013
Vermont and Boston Code Camp Milestones
Two of the more established code camps in the Northeast are each celebrating a milestone this fall...
Date: 08/05/2013
Technical Calendar – August 2013
Boston Windows Dev Meetup events Northeast User Group Map and Calendars Sunday Monday Tuesday...
Date: 07/31/2013
Testing Your APIMASH app with Fiddler
The primary goal of our Windows Store and Windows Phone Store APIMASH Starter Kits is to pave your...
Date: 07/25/2013
Unity – Your Path to $30K?
With the release of Unity 4.2 yesterday, Windows 8 and Windows Phone developers have another...
Date: 07/23/2013
APIMASH: Porting to Windows Phone 8
You may recall that in May my evangelist colleagues and I launched a series of workshops around a...
Date: 07/17/2013
Practical Azure #25 - The Client Layer
It’s been a great ride, and in this final session of my Practical Azure series on Channel 9 MSDN...
Date: 07/16/2013
Practical Azure #24: Windows Azure Mobile Services
Well, this one went a bit longer than most, but only because Windows Azure Mobile Services has so...
Date: 07/08/2013
Beat the Heat – Build a Game
Join me on Saturday, July 13th, at the newest Microsoft Store in New England (at the Natick...
Date: 07/03/2013
Practical Azure #23: Windows Azure Media Services
Ok, I admit it, of all the episodes in this series, Windows Azure Media Services is one I dreaded...
Date: 07/02/2013
Technical Calendar - July 2013
Boston Windows Dev Meetup events Northeast User Group Map and Calendars Sunday Monday Tuesday...
Date: 06/29/2013
Screencast Trifecta: Publishing to the Windows Store
My evangelist colleagues and I are just finishing up a series of workshops leveraging our (now over...
Date: 06/28/2013
Practical Azure #22 - Windows Azure Marketplace
The Windows Azure Marketplace is a textbook example of "eating your own dog food." As the...
Date: 06/25/2013
The Week Ahead: June 24, 2013
It’s the last week of the Keep the Cash program, and remember your app has to be in the store, not...
Date: 06/24/2013
APIMASH Starter Kits: Adding Sharing Capabilities
I’ve been putting the finishing touches on an app that I’m writing based off of the Bing Maps/TomTom...
Date: 06/20/2013
Practical Azure #21 - HDInsight
“Big Data” is undeniably one of the more prevalent buzzwords of the last year or two, and given the...
Date: 06/18/2013
The Week Ahead: June 17th, 2013
First of all, apologies for not getting my weekly post out last Monday. It was actually written and...
Date: 06/17/2013
Practical Azure #20 - SQL Reporting Services
One of the many values of the cloud is the ability to leverage services that on-premises would...
Date: 06/11/2013
Build Your Own Bing Maps API Mash-Up: Architecture
In my last post, I mentioned the “starter-kit” applications my colleagues and I have built around...
Date: 06/03/2013
The Week Ahead: June 3rd, 2013
I hope you managed to stay cool this weekend – no better way than building Windows 8 apps,...
Date: 06/03/2013
Technical Calendar - June 2013
Boston Windows Dev Meetup events Northeast User Group Map and Calendars Sunday Monday Tuesday...
Date: 05/30/2013
Build a Windows 8 Mashup App with Bing Maps
Before I delve into the main topic, I wanted to provide a bit of context. My East coast colleagues...
Date: 05/30/2013
The Week Ahead: May 27th, 2013
Happy Memorial Day! As you head back to work and school on Tuesday, here are a few developer events...
Date: 05/27/2013
Practical Azure #19 – Windows Azure Virtual Network
The latest episode of Practical Azure covers the topic of networking in Windows Azure: a means to...
Date: 05/24/2013
Port Your App to Windows 8 and Win a Trip to BUILD
As you might know, my Technical Evangelist colleagues and I spend a lot of time on StackOverflow...
Date: 05/20/2013
The Week Ahead: May 20th, 2013
As we head into Memorial Day, we won’t be running our normal Saturday workshops this coming weekend,...
Date: 05/20/2013
Construct 2: Windows 8 Summer Competition
My colleagues and I have run a fair amount of events over the past few months demonstrating how easy...
Date: 05/17/2013
Construct 2 Tip #4: Round Tripping With Event Variables
In a previous post, I showed how you could extend Construct 2’s generated Visual Studio project to...
Date: 05/16/2013
Practical Azure #18 – Windows Azure Service Bus
It was incredibly hard to distill a feature as powerful and versatile as the Windows Azure Service...
Date: 05/13/2013
The Week Ahead: May 13th, 2013
It’s another great week of events for Windows and Windows 8 developers – and not just in Boston!...
Date: 05/13/2013
SQL Saturday Rochester - May 11th
It's time for the 2nd Annual SQL Saturday in Rochester, to be held at the Golisano Auditorium on the...
Date: 05/06/2013
The Week Ahead: May 6th, 2013
Welcome to May! We’ve just kicked off a series of Saturday workshops at both our Cambridge and...
Date: 05/06/2013
Construct 2 Tip #3: (Uniquely) Leveraging Sprite Animations
In Construct 2, or any game development platform, sprites are a key component and often used to...
Date: 05/03/2013
May 2013 Technical Calendar
Boston Windows Dev Meetup events Northeast User Group Map and Calendars Sunday Monday Tuesday...
Date: 04/30/2013
It's Time to App-up New England!
Join us for a series of weekly workshops at both our Cambridge (Boston) and Farmington (Hartford)...
Date: 04/30/2013
The Week Ahead: April 29, 2013
Hopefully the gorgeous weekend (in Boston, at least) has re-energized you, and you’re raring to go...
Date: 04/29/2013
Windows Azure – Discover the Cloud and Win Cash!
Over the past few months, I’ve been working with a lot of student and professional developers...
Date: 04/26/2013
Who’s on 8: Memorylage
Memorylage (on Windows 8 and Windows Phone) is the work of Jeffrey Harmon of AgileData Software. I...
Date: 04/25/2013
6th Annual Hartford Code Camp – Call for Speakers
On Saturday, May 18th, the Connecticut .NET Developers Group and New Horizons in Bloomfield,...
Date: 04/22/2013
The Week Ahead: April 22, 2013
Here’s this week’s CORRECTED lineup of events for Windows Phone and Windows 8 developers! Tuesday,...
Date: 04/22/2013