Quick Hits Issue #3: New Meetups, Game Development, and more!

New Meetup Group

I’m pleased to announce a new Meetup group for Windows App Developers in the DC area. The group will focus on local workshops, hackathons, office hours, and other events featuring myself and other local technical evangelists.

If you’re not in the DC Area, check out these other meetups, featuring some of my peers in the east region:

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Microsoft DevRadio: Using Windows Azure to Build Back-End Services for Windows 8 Apps (Part 1)

Here’s my next DevRadio installment, this time with me as a guest, with my fellow TEs, Brian Hitney and Peter Laudati hosting. In it, we discuss some of the topics in my blog series on building back-end services for Windows 8 apps.

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Quick Hits Issue 2: Privacy is Paramount (and easy)

In this second issue of Quick Hits, I want to share a couple of good posts on the topic of privacy policies for Windows Store apps. You may have heard already that if your app connects to the internet (and many, if not most, apps do), you are required to provide a privacy policy for your app, one that is accessible both from within the app (via the Settings charm) and from the app’s store listing.

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