I’m looking forward to Dublin Gamecraft on Feb 25th. It’s not a traditional conference, it’s an 8 hour coding marathon. The idea is that you have 8 hours to build a game, either by yourself or on a team. Yes, you have to start from scratch. Yes, you can build for platform X (where X is XBox, PC, iPad, WP7, iPhone, Android, or any other platform that you can write » read more.
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Two quick updates – first, this is happening on 9 Nov, 2011. Second, we’re holding this at: The Venue, the Hub DCUCollins Avenue Dublin Ireland We are privileged to have two of the folks from the Windows Phone Design Studios coming to Ireland to present on how to design for Metro with Windows Phone. There are two parts to the day – the lecture portion and the hands on labs » read more.
I’ve been spending more and more time in front end web development with HTML5 recently (yes, you can expect a redesign of my blog here soon) an ,d thought I’d demystify some of the bits that I keep hearing out there. First of all, HTML5 is not all brand new and completely different and going to revolutionize the world. It is an conglomeration of standards and an evolution of various » read more.
The NDRC here in Dublin, Ireland is hosting a live viewing party of the Startup Lessons Learned Conference being held in silicon valley. Startup Lessons Learned is the first event designed to unite those interested in what it takes to succeed in building a lean startup. The goal for this event is to give practitioners and students of the lean startup methodology the opportunity to hear insights from leaders in » read more.
One of the things that really fun about my job here in Microsoft Ireland is that the team I’m on has one primary remit – to inspire the developers or designer of Ireland. In June, we’re going to pull together a full day of the most exciting content from MIX11 as well as some cool stuff that we’re throwing in ourselves all for free. Our goal with this content is » read more.
I thought that this was a really interesting read… There Be Dragons: Ten Potential Pitfalls of Gamification View more presentations from Sebastian Deterding
A question that I’ve been asked a number of times recently is how to activate an MSDN Azure account and more specifically, how to do it with a BizSpark account. To make it easy, I thought I’d blog that here. For an up to date list of benefits you should visit http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/msdn-benefits/ but currently it’s as follows: Subscription Level BizSpark/Visual Studio Ultimate with MSDN Visual Studio Premium with MSDN Visual » read more.
Unplug from your day job. Be inspired at MIX. Join the conversation at MIX – see the latest tools and technologies and draw inspiration from a professional community of your peers and experts. MIX is a gathering of developers, designers, UX experts and business professionals creating the most innovative and profitable consumer sites on the web. The conference takes place in Las Vegas, but will be streamed live online http://live.visitmix.com. » read more.
The Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 is a starter kit that was recently released out to CodePlex. Wade Wegner, one of my former team mates when both of us were in Central Region, is the master mind behind this fantastic starter. This starter kit is designed to make it easier for you to build mobile applications that leverage cloud services running in Windows Azure. Screencast In the screencast, » read more.
Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) launched last week at SxSW! I was bummed that I wasn’t there but I was one of the 2.3 Million downloads in the first day. There’s a bunch of new stuff in IE9. There’s a load of examples out on http://www.beautyoftheweb.com that show off all of the new HTML5 support to javascript performance to a ton more. A simple one, however is site pinning. This allows » read more.
