Here are some resources and blog posts from my fellow Technical Evangelists here in East Region:
Developer
- Great post from Pete Brown on the potential of the Hub control to make for a more usable UX for music and synth apps.
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Weekly East Region Roundup: Vol. 4
Here are some resources and blog posts from my fellow Technical Evangelists here in East Region:
Developer
Lots of activity from my developer-focused peers…read the whole list…you won’t regret it.
Weekly East Region Roundup: Vol. 3
Here are some resources and blog posts from my fellow Technical Evangelists here in East Region:
Developer
- Brian Hitney and I both wrote about moving a blog to Windows Azure Websites last week. This week, Steve Maier adds a unique perspective…helping a non-techie relative with a small business get their website set up on the free tier of Windows Azure Websites to save money and simplify their lives.
East Region Roundup
Wanted to share a few posts from my fellow Microsoft Technical evangelists here in East Region, hopefully you’ll find them as interesting and useful as I did:
- New Digs, Windows Azure and Orchard – Michael Cummings talks about the reasons he chose Windows Azure and Orchard CMS for his new blog. Given that I run my blog on Orchard (and just moved to Windows Azure), I thought it was interesting to compare his reasons to mine. Also interested to hear more about his idea for a Bing search module.
- From Steve Maier comes The Puppy Eat, a somewhat sick and twisted casual game for Windows 8, but quite well-executed, and fun, if you don’t take it too seriously.
- Jim O’Neil has a good post on using Fiddler to test an APIMASH app. Of course, the technique can be used on any Windows Store app you happen to be developing.
- Jesse Freeman is starting a new event series for game developers looking for focused coding time, called Game Developer Studio Time. If you’re in the NYC area, you should definitely check it out!
- Maria Naggaga reminds us that Unity is offering $100,000 in prizes, including a $30,000 grand prize, for the best apps and games built with Unity 3d, and as a bonus, she’s got a dancing elephant!
- Planning to attend Visual Studio LIVE! this fall in Orlando? Be sure to catch Dave Isbitski’s talks on Windows Phone and Windows Azure.
- Want to get a better handle on building a site or app on Windows Azure, and keep costs in line? Check out part 2 of Brian Hitney‘s “Building for Cost” series. Part 1 is available here.
- Joe Healy, aka DevFish, is looking for Florida devs who’ve published Windows Phone or Windows Store apps. Hit him up on his MSDN blog for more.
- Want to learn how to build games with Construct 2? Diego Lizarazo Rivera has a 5-part series that shows you how (link is to part 5, which has links to the rest).
- If you’re looking for info on Virtualization, Hybrid Cloud, or SharePoint, or if you’re an IT pro focused group in Mid-Atlantic looking for a good speaker, you should check out my IT evangelist peer Yung Chou.
- Do you already know VMWare, but want to learn more about using Hyper-V? Tommy Patterson shares a webcast you might be interested in.
That’s all I’ve got for today…I’ll post more links from my peers in future roundups. Let me know if you find these valuable!
Bringing my Meetup APIMASH Starter Kit to Windows Phone
Not too long ago, as part of my team’s effort (which we call APIMASH) to create a set of starter kits to demonstrate how to use a variety of publicly-available APIs in Windows Store apps, I created an app that leverages the Meetup.com API, along with the Bing Maps JavaScript SDK, to retrieve upcoming Meetups for a given city and also display coffee shops nearby the Meetup location.
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APIMASH Webcast Recording: Exploring Social Networking APIs
If you missed last week’s APIMASH Webcast on the Social Networking APIs, don’t fret…below, you’ll find the recording of the webcast featuring yours truly, and my peers Lindsay Lindstrom and Tara Walker:
Here’s the abstract from Channel 9:
Join Microsoft Technical Evangelists G. Andrew Duthie, Lindsay Lindstrom, and Tara Walker as they cover several of the APIMASH Starter Kits that incorporate popular social networking APIs like Meetup, Facebook, and Twitter. This is a recording of their June 12th, 2013 webcast.
[00:40] Overview of the APIMASH project (G. Andrew Duthie)
[05:00] The Meetup API (G. Andrew Duthie)
[12:25] The Facebook API (Lindsay Lindstrom)
[29:35] The Twitter API (Tara Walker)
[53:40] Closing and call to action (Tara Walker)
More APIMASH
If you’d like to catch the next couple of webcasts, there are two more you can catch:
- Wednesday, June 19th, 12:00 PM EDT – Exploring the Yelp API
- Tuesday June 25th, 12:00 PM EDT – Exploring the Bing Maps API
If you can’t make those times, as with the above webcast, those recordings will be posted to our APIMASH feed on Channel 9.